{"id":3680,"date":"2025-01-30T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:21:56","slug":"sosa-powers-docs-over-wizards-with-2-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3680","title":{"rendered":"Sosa Powers Docs Over Wizards with 2 Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SosaSammy.png?resize=194%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SosaSammy.png?w=194&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SosaSammy.png?resize=89%2C128&amp;ssl=1 89w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SosaSammy.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Sammy Sosa put on a show, going 3 for 5 with 2 home runs, a double, and 4 RBI to lead the Chicago Docs over the St. Louis Wizards 9-3. Sosa hit a 2-out 2-run homer in the 1st against Wizards starter Robin Roberts. He added his 2nd homer, a solo shot, to lead off the 5th. In the 6th, he hit a 2-run double, again with 2 outs, as part of a 4-run inning for the Docs against Roberts. Roberts allowed 13 hits and 9 runs in 6 innings. St. Louis scored their 3 runs in the 4th when Duke Snider hit an RBI double, and Willie Mays followed with a 2-run homer. Chicago starter Orel Hershiser allowed 4 hits in the inning, but only 2 hits during the rest of his 6-inning start. Hershiser improved to 2-0. William Bell pitched 3 scoreless innings for a rare save. With the win, the Docs are now 10-9, while St. Louis has fallen to 8-11. Wizards catcher Mike Piazza left in the 2nd inning after getting hit by a foul tip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/04-20-2023_STL_CHN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wizards @ Docs - 4\/20\/23\">Wizards @ Docs &#8211; 4\/20\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Sosa put on a show, going 3 for 5 with 2 home runs, a double, and 4 RBI to lead the Chicago Docs over the St. Louis Wizards 9-3. Sosa hit a 2-out 2-run homer in the 1st against Wizards starter Robin Roberts. He added his 2nd homer, a solo shot, to lead off [&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-3680","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\/3680","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=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}