{"id":3201,"date":"2024-05-31T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2024-05-31T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:52:10","slug":"simmons-hits-for-the-cycle-athletics-top-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"Simmons Hits for the Cycle, Athletics Top Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Al Simmons became the 1st player to hit for the cycle as the 1931 Philadelphia Athletics topped the 1933 Washington Nationals 8-7 in a game that saw 5 lead changes. Washington scored twice in the 1st off George Earnshaw, but Philadelphia responded with 2 runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning, capped by Simmons’ solo home run. His triple in the 5th tied the game, and he scored on a Jimmie Foxx single. Washington retook the lead in the 7th on RBI hits from Joe Cronin and Fred Schulte. Nationals starter General Crowder took a 7-5 lead into the 8th, but allowed 3 straight hits to start the inning. Jack Russell couldn’t save it, allowing a 2-run go-ahead double to Max Bishop. With 2 outs, Simmons came up needing just a single for the cycle, and he connected for a clean hit up the middle. Simmons finished 4 for 4 with a walk, 2 runs, and 2 RBI. He’s hitting .581 in the tournament. Washington was set down in order in the 9th, and the Athletics now have a 2-0 series lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Al Simmons became the 1st player to hit for the cycle as the 1931 Philadelphia Athletics topped the 1933 Washington Nationals 8-7 in a game that saw 5 lead changes. Washington scored twice in the 1st off George Earnshaw, but Philadelphia responded with 2 runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-30s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}