{"id":3384,"date":"2024-08-24T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T21:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2024-08-24T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T21:03:07","slug":"johnson-keeps-cardinals-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Keeps Cardinals Hopes Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JohnsonSylSTL-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JohnsonSylSTL.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JohnsonSylSTL.jpg?resize=85%2C128&amp;ssl=1 85w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JohnsonSylSTL.jpg?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/JohnsonSylSTL.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facing elimination, the 1931 St. Louis Cardinals turned to Syl Johnson, and he delivered. Johnson held the 1935 Chicago Cubs to just one run on 6 hits, nearly matching the shutout he pitched against the Cubs a few weeks ago. The Cardinals offense did the rest, hitting 9 doubles. Cubs starter Charlie Root allowed 6 runs on 11 hits in just 7 innings. Jim Bottomley was 3 for 4 with 3 doubles, and Chick Hafey was 2 for 4 with 2 RBI to improve his average to .420 to lead the National League. The 7-1 win forces Game 5 in the series. If the Cardinals win at Wrigley Field, they&#8217;ll send the NL Championship to a best-of-7 series. If they lose, it&#8217;ll be the end of the road for St. Louis and Chicago will advance to the Best of the 1930s World Series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB30s\/Scoresheets\/10-03-2023_CHC_STL.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'35 Cubs @ '31 Cardinals - 10\/3\/23\">&#8217;35 Cubs @ &#8217;31 Cardinals &#8211; 10\/3\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing elimination, the 1931 St. Louis Cardinals turned to Syl Johnson, and he delivered. Johnson held the 1935 Chicago Cubs to just one run on 6 hits, nearly matching the shutout he pitched against the Cubs a few weeks ago. The Cardinals offense did the rest, hitting 9 doubles. Cubs starter Charlie Root allowed 6 [&hellip;]<\/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-3384","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\/3384","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=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}