{"id":3403,"date":"2024-09-04T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2024-09-04T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:22:12","slug":"cards-rout-cubs-force-best-of-7-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"Cards Rout Cubs, Force Best of 7 Series"},"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\/09\/BottomleyJimSTL-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BottomleyJimSTL.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BottomleyJimSTL.jpg?resize=86%2C128&amp;ssl=1 86w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BottomleyJimSTL.jpg?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BottomleyJimSTL.jpg?w=304&amp;ssl=1 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facing an early deficit in the 3rd inning of a do-or-die game, Jim Bottomley hit a 3-run home run off 1935 Chicago Cubs starter Bill Lee to give the 1931 St. Louis Cardinals the lead. It was Bottomley&#8217;s 1st homer of the Tournament. It came after Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges bobbled a grounder that could have ended the inning. The game stayed close until the 7th, when the Cardinals piled on more runs. Cubs reliever Roy Henshaw couldn&#8217;t stop the bleeding as St. Louis scored 5 runs, 4 of them charged to Lee. A Billy Herman error in the 9th led to two more unearned runs, giving the Cardinals an 11-3 victory. Bottomley finished 2 for 5 with 4 RBI. Bill Hallahan went the distance for St. Louis, allowing 3 runs on 11 hits. The victory took the series for the Cardinals. Now, with both teams having one losing series, they&#8217;ll face off in a Best of Seven to see who advances to the World Series to face the 1931 Philadelphia Athletics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB30s\/Scoresheets\/10-05-2023_STL_CHC.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Cardinals @ Cubs - 10\/5\/23\">Cardinals @ Cubs &#8211; 10\/5\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing an early deficit in the 3rd inning of a do-or-die game, Jim Bottomley hit a 3-run home run off 1935 Chicago Cubs starter Bill Lee to give the 1931 St. Louis Cardinals the lead. It was Bottomley&#8217;s 1st homer of the Tournament. It came after Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges bobbled a grounder that could [&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-3403","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\/3403","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=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}