{"id":3796,"date":"2025-03-26T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:51:55","slug":"allen-drives-in-5-leads-swats-over-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3796","title":{"rendered":"Allen Drives in 5, Leads Swats Over Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AllenDick-228x300.png?resize=228%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AllenDick.png?resize=228%2C300&amp;ssl=1 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AllenDick.png?resize=97%2C128&amp;ssl=1 97w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AllenDick.png?resize=24%2C32&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AllenDick.png?w=248&amp;ssl=1 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Dick Allen broke out of his slump, going 3 for 5 with a home run and driving in 5 to lead the New York Swats over the Oakland Jacks in a 9-6 win. Allen entered the game hitting .143 since joining the Swats. In the 3rd inning, he launched his Maelstrom-leading 13th home run, this one against Nolan Ryan. The Jacks responded against Mike Mussina in the bottom of the 3rd, putting together three straight 2-out hits capped by Ken Griffey Jr. 3-run home run that tied the game 4-4. The next inning, with 2 outs and the bases loaded, Allen drove a sharp liner to plate two more. Mussina allowed 4 runs on 7 hits in 6 innings. Bullet Rogan added 3 innings of relief to earn the save. Ryan struck out 8 in 7 innings, but allowed 10 hits and walked 4. Bob Lemon allowed 3 more runs in 2 innings of relief. Allen&#8217;s 5 RBI added to his lead. He&#8217;s now driven in 32. Allen hit .377 with the Detroit Rockets before joining the Swats after his induction into the MLB Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/04-25-2023_NYA_OAK.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Swats @ Jacks - 4\/25\/23\">Swats @ Jacks &#8211; 4\/25\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Allen broke out of his slump, going 3 for 5 with a home run and driving in 5 to lead the New York Swats over the Oakland Jacks in a 9-6 win. Allen entered the game hitting .143 since joining the Swats. In the 3rd inning, he launched his Maelstrom-leading 13th home run, this [&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-3796","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\/3796","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=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}