{"id":3424,"date":"2024-09-13T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T02:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2024-09-13T21:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T02:08:17","slug":"home-runs-ground-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Home Runs Ground Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/CochraneMickeyOAK-195x300.jpg?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/CochraneMickeyOAK.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/CochraneMickeyOAK.jpg?resize=83%2C128&amp;ssl=1 83w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/CochraneMickeyOAK.jpg?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/CochraneMickeyOAK.jpg?w=277&amp;ssl=1 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Four home runs were all the Oakland Jacks needed to come from behind and top the Detroit Rockets 11-8. Jimmie Foxx broke a scoreless tie in the 4th with a solo homer off Frank Tanana. Detroit tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the 4th, but Hank Greenberg hit a 3-run shot, helping Oakland take a 5-1 lead into the 6th. Dick Allen and Mark McGwire went back-to-back for the Rockets against Lefty Grove to cut the lead, and 4 straight base hits in the 7th chased Grove and gave Detroit an 8-6 lead. But Dan Quisenberry couldn&#8217;t hold it, blowing his 2nd save of the season. Mickey Cochrane and Reggie Jackson went back-to-back for the Jacks against Quisenberry in the 9th to take an 11-8 lead. Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect 9th for his 2nd save of the season. Oakland is now 5-7, while Detroit has dropped to 6-6.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/04-12-2023_OAK_DET.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jacks @ Rockets - 4\/12\/23\">Jacks @ Rockets &#8211; 4\/12\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four home runs were all the Oakland Jacks needed to come from behind and top the Detroit Rockets 11-8. Jimmie Foxx broke a scoreless tie in the 4th with a solo homer off Frank Tanana. Detroit tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the 4th, but Hank Greenberg hit a 3-run shot, helping Oakland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pops-s2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}