{"id":3798,"date":"2025-03-26T14:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:34:33","slug":"carlton-mays-end-wizards-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"Carlton, Mays End Wizards Skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?resize=188%2C288\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?w=188&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?resize=84%2C128&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wizards needed a spark. Steve Carlton and Willie Mays gave it to them. Carlton allowed 7 hits and 2 runs in 8 innings while striking out 6 to break the St. Louis Wizards&#8217; 8-game losing streak. After a 1st-inning single, Carlton retired 15 straight batters. A Dave Bancroft 2-run triple spoiled the shutout, but the game was all but over well before that. Phil Niekro allowed a 2-out 2-run single to Gabby Hartnett in the 2nd, and Joe Morgan followed by driving in 2 more runs with a double. The next inning, Mays took a Niekro pitch deep to give St. Louis a 6-0 lead. Reliever Jesse Haines allowed a couple more runs, including a Mike Schmidt solo home run. Mays finished 4 for 5 with a homer, triple, and 3 RBI. Carlton improved to just 3-3 this season despite a 2.86 ERA. The Wizards are just 9-15 with the win. Houston is 14-10 and lead the NL by 1 1\/2 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/04-25-2023_STL_HOU.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wizards @ Hoots - 4\/25\/23\">Wizards @ Hoots &#8211; 4\/25\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wizards needed a spark. Steve Carlton and Willie Mays gave it to them. Carlton allowed 7 hits and 2 runs in 8 innings while striking out 6 to break the St. Louis Wizards&#8217; 8-game losing streak. After a 1st-inning single, Carlton retired 15 straight batters. A Dave Bancroft 2-run triple spoiled the shutout, but [&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-3798","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\/3798","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=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}