{"id":3655,"date":"2025-01-21T14:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:44:58","slug":"toronto-survives-after-wasting-big-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3655","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Survives After Wasting Big Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1993 Toronto Blue Jays #9 hitter, Pat Borders, hit a grand slam in the 4th inning, and Joe Carter and John Olerud went back-to-back to start the 5th, chasing 1998 New York Yankees starter David Wells. Wells allowed 8 runs on 11 hits in just 4 innings. Ramiro Mendoza allowed another run, but was otherwise great in 4 innings of long relief in which he allowed just 3 hits. Despite taking a 9-1 lead into the 8th, the Blue Jays nearly blew it. Dave Stewart allowed just 5 hits and one run through 7 innings, but RBI hits from Paul O’Neill and Bernie Williams ended his day. Reliever Jack Morris was ineffective, allowing 3 straight hitters to reach and walking in a run before turning things over to Mike Timlin. A two-run single by Jorge Posada and a sacrifice fly by Scott Brosius put the last of 6 runs on the board as the Yankees batted around to cut the Jays lead to 9-7. In the 9th, Williams tripled with one out against Toronto closer Duane Ward, and scored on a Tino Martinez single. But Ward got Darryl Strawberry to fly out, and Chad Curtis grounded out as the Yankees come-back came up short. The 9-8 win gives the Blue Jays life, as they avoid a sweep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1993 Toronto Blue Jays #9 hitter, Pat Borders, hit a grand slam in the 4th inning, and Joe Carter and John Olerud went back-to-back to start the 5th, chasing 1998 New York Yankees starter David Wells. Wells allowed 8 runs on 11 hits in just 4 innings. Ramiro Mendoza allowed another run, but was otherwise […]<\/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":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-90s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","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=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}