{"id":3980,"date":"2025-06-26T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:26:10","slug":"pedro-ks-11-nearly-shuts-out-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=3980","title":{"rendered":"Pedro K&#8217;s 11, Nearly Shuts Out Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MartinezPedroNYA.jpg?resize=191%2C297&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MartinezPedroNYA.jpg?w=191&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MartinezPedroNYA.jpg?resize=82%2C128&amp;ssl=1 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MartinezPedroNYA.jpg?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pedro Mart\u00ednez nearly pitched his 2nd shutout of the season, allowing a 9th-inning home run to Rafael Palmeiro while scattering 8 hits and striking out 11 as the New York Swats topped the Detroit Rockets 6-1.  Cal Ripken Jr. was 2 for 3 with a triple and 3 RBI to lead the Swats. Babe Ruth added his 14th homer of the season, a solo shot in the 7th. Starter David Cone fell to 1-6, allowing 6 runs on 9 hits while striking out 8 in the loss. The Swats are now tied with the Rockets for 2nd place in the American League at 13-16. Both teams trail the Boston Splinters by 8 games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-04-2023_DET_NYA.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rockets @ Swats - 5\/4\/23\">Rockets @ Swats &#8211; 5\/4\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Mart\u00ednez nearly pitched his 2nd shutout of the season, allowing a 9th-inning home run to Rafael Palmeiro while scattering 8 hits and striking out 11 as the New York Swats topped the Detroit Rockets 6-1. Cal Ripken Jr. was 2 for 3 with a triple and 3 RBI to lead the Swats. Babe Ruth [&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-3980","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\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}