{"id":3715,"date":"2025-02-14T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:13:01","slug":"pujols-leads-docs-over-wizards-to-complete-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3715","title":{"rendered":"Pujols Leads Docs Over Wizards to Complete Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?resize=219%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?w=219&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?resize=95%2C128&amp;ssl=1 95w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?resize=24%2C32&amp;ssl=1 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albert Pujols wasn&#8217;t supposed to play today. Slated for a rest day, Pujols found himself back in the lineup after a late scratch of Lonny Frey. He made the most of the unexpected start, going 3 for 3 with a double, a home run, and 2 RBI against St. Louis Wizards starter Steve Carlton. Jimmy Rollins hit his 1st homer of the season, a 2-run shot in the 6th inning that put the Docs up 6-2. Carlton allowed 6 runs on 8 hits in 7 innings, dropping to 2-3 this season despite a 2.96 ERA. Dwight Gooden scattered 10 hits, allowing 4 runs and striking out 10 in a complete game. Joe Morgan hit a solo homer in the 3rd off Gooden, and Larry Walker added an RBI double. The last two runs came in the 9th against a tiring Gooden. The 7-4 win completes the sweep for the Chicago Docs, who are now 12-9 and tied for Houston for the National League lead. Meanwhile, the St. Louis Wizards have lost 5 straight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/04-21-2023_STL_CHN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wizards @ Docs - 4\/21\/23\">Wizards @ Docs &#8211; 4\/21\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Pujols wasn&#8217;t supposed to play today. Slated for a rest day, Pujols found himself back in the lineup after a late scratch of Lonny Frey. He made the most of the unexpected start, going 3 for 3 with a double, a home run, and 2 RBI against St. Louis Wizards starter Steve Carlton. Jimmy [&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":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","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\/3715","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=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}