{"id":3916,"date":"2025-05-27T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:36:15","slug":"jacks-blow-comeback-in-crazy-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3916","title":{"rendered":"Jacks Blow Comeback in Crazy 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SpeakerTrisCLE-234x300.jpg?resize=234%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SpeakerTrisCLE.jpg?resize=234%2C300&amp;ssl=1 234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SpeakerTrisCLE.jpg?resize=100%2C128&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SpeakerTrisCLE.jpg?resize=25%2C32&amp;ssl=1 25w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SpeakerTrisCLE.jpg?w=297&amp;ssl=1 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two days after an All-Star Game start, Boston Splinters ace Gaylord Perry took a 3-0 shutout into the 8th inning before the Oakland Jacks finally unloaded. The Jacks cut the lead to 3-2 with two 2-out singles that ended Perry&#8217;s day. Eddie Collins doubled off reliever Dennis Eckersley to give Oakland the lead, and Harmon Killebrew followed with a 2-run home run that capped their 6-run inning. Boston took advantage of Nolan Ryan&#8217;s wildness, and Tris Speaker drove in two with a triple to make it a one-run game in the bottom of the 8th. With two outs, Ichiro Suzuki and Nellie Fox hit back-to-back RBI singles to put the Splinters back on top. Rollie Fingers pitched a perfect 9th for his 8th save of the season. The 7-6 win expands Boston&#8217;s lead in the American League to 6 1\/2 games. Ryan finished with 7 runs on 8 hits and 7 walks in 7 2\/3 innings. Before the 8th inning, all three Boston runs were hitters who had walked. Speaker was 2 for 3 with 3 RBI to lead the Splinters&#8217; offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-02-2023_OAK_BOS.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jacks @ Splinters - 05\/02\/23\">Jacks @ Splinters &#8211; 05\/02\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after an All-Star Game start, Boston Splinters ace Gaylord Perry took a 3-0 shutout into the 8th inning before the Oakland Jacks finally unloaded. The Jacks cut the lead to 3-2 with two 2-out singles that ended Perry&#8217;s day. Eddie Collins doubled off reliever Dennis Eckersley to give Oakland the lead, and Harmon [&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-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pops-s2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}