{"id":3895,"date":"2025-05-08T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:15:17","slug":"posada-wells-give-yanks-a-shot-force-game-5-with-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Posada, Wells, Give Yanks a Shot, Force Game 5 with Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Wells finally kept the ball in the park (mostly), and the 1998 New York Yankees offense exploded against Todd Stottlemyre and the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, taking Game 4 10-4 and forcing a decisive Game 5. Jorge Posada got the scoring started in the 2nd inning with a 2-out 2-run home run, his 1st of the Tournament. The Yankees scored two more runs in the 3rd, and 4 in the 4th on 2-run base hits by Paul O’Neill and Tino Martinez. Posada added another 2-run homer in the 5th to give the Yankees a 10-1 lead. Homers had plagued Wells in his prior starts, but he only allowed a solo shot to Ed Sprague in this game. Wells allowed just 2 runs, scattering 10 hits in 8 innings, giving New York relievers a breather. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays starter didn’t make it past the 4th inning for the 2nd straight game. Posada finished 4 for 5 with 2 homers and 4 RBI. The teams will travel back to New York in a final elimination game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Wells finally kept the ball in the park (mostly), and the 1998 New York Yankees offense exploded against Todd Stottlemyre and the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays, taking Game 4 10-4 and forcing a decisive Game 5. Jorge Posada got the scoring started in the 2nd inning with a 2-out 2-run home run, his 1st […]<\/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-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-90s"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}