{"id":3776,"date":"2025-03-18T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:25:32","slug":"bagwell-grand-puts-arizona-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"Bagwell Grand, Puts Arizona on the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 1998 Houston Astros scored one run in each of the 1st four innings against Randy Johnson, two on Derek Bell sacrifice flies. Jay Bell’s 2-run home run and Andy Fox’s RBI single kept the game close at 4-3 into the 7th. That’s when Craig Biggio bobbled the 3rd out, leading to 4 unearned runs and a 7-4 Arizona lead against Jos\u00e9 Lima. In the bottom of the 7th, Johnson walked Bell with 2 outs, and Jeff Bagwell took the 1st pitch he saw deep for a grand slam to give Houston an 8-7 lead. Billy Wagner retired one batter in the 9th before leaving with a pulled hip. Jay Powell walked Bernard Gilkey, but got Matt Williams to ground into a double-play to end the game. Houston now has a 2-0 series lead against Arizona. Arizona will need to win 3 straight games to avoid elimination. They came back to win 3 straight against the 1990 New York Mets in the Elimination Round. The Astros will be without Mois\u00e9s Alou for a few days after he collided with the wall in the 6th inning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1998 Houston Astros scored one run in each of the 1st four innings against Randy Johnson, two on Derek Bell sacrifice flies. Jay Bell’s 2-run home run and Andy Fox’s RBI single kept the game close at 4-3 into the 7th. That’s when Craig Biggio bobbled the 3rd out, leading to 4 unearned runs […]<\/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-3776","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\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}