{"id":3816,"date":"2025-04-04T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:38:06","slug":"williams-powers-dbacks-comeback-stay-alive-vs-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"Williams Powers DBacks Comeback, Stay Alive vs. Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WilliamsMattARI99-1-191x300.jpg?resize=191%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WilliamsMattARI99-1.jpg?resize=191%2C300&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WilliamsMattARI99-1.jpg?resize=82%2C128&amp;ssl=1 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WilliamsMattARI99-1.jpg?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WilliamsMattARI99-1.jpg?w=307&amp;ssl=1 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the 1998 Houston Astros batted in the 4th inning, the 1999 Arizona Diamondbacks were down 5-1 and facing elimination in the Tournament. Luis Gonzalez drew a walk against starter Mike Hampton to lead off the bottom of the 4th, and Matt Williams followed with a 2-run homer. The next inning, with one on and 2 out, Williams hit another 2-run shot to put Arizona ahead 6-5. Armando Reynoso used that momentum to allow just one Astros hit over the next 4 innings. Steve Finley added another 2-run homer, this off reliever Scott Elarton, as the Diamondbacks took a 9-5 lead into the 9th. Houston scored twice in the 9th against Gregg Olson, but Bill Spiers flew out to end the game. The 9-7 win gives the Diamondbacks another shot at staying alive tomorrow, now down 2-1 in the series. Williams&#8217; 4 RBI in the game give him a Tourney best 19 total. The Diamondbacks are now 5-0 at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB90s\/Scoresheets\/09-18-2024_HOU_ARI.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'98 Astros @ '99 Diamondbacks - 9\/18\/24\">&#8217;98 Astros @ &#8217;99 Diamondbacks &#8211; 9\/18\/24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 1998 Houston Astros batted in the 4th inning, the 1999 Arizona Diamondbacks were down 5-1 and facing elimination in the Tournament. Luis Gonzalez drew a walk against starter Mike Hampton to lead off the bottom of the 4th, and Matt Williams followed with a 2-run homer. The next inning, with one on and [&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":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","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\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}