{"id":4007,"date":"2025-07-08T08:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:15:08","slug":"rockets-go-off-on-swats-hit-5-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4007","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Go Off on Swats, Hit 5 HR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CabreraMiguelDET-219x300.jpg?resize=219%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CabreraMiguelDET.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CabreraMiguelDET.jpg?resize=94%2C128&amp;ssl=1 94w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CabreraMiguelDET.jpg?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CabreraMiguelDET.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bret Saberhagen overcame a rough 1st inning, and the Detroit Rockets feasted on New York relief pitching, as the Rockets topped the Swats 12-4. Saberhagen allowed 3 runs on 5 singles in the 1st inning, but only allowed a run on 4 hits in the next 7 innings. Rafael Palmeiro hit a solo home run in the 2nd off Mike Mussina to get Detroit&#8217;s offense going. Miguel Cabrera added a 2-run shot in the 3rd to cap a 3-run inning, and Mark McGwire added another solo homer in the 4th. Red Faber came in in the 7th, and the Rockets roughed him up. Cabrera hit another 2-run homer in the 7th, and Joe Jackson added a 2-run triple in the 8th. Lou Whitaker closed things out with a 2-run homer in the 9th off Ted Lyons. Saberhagen improved to 3-0, despite a 6.49 ERA. Babe Ruth hit home run number 15 in the 8th inning. He&#8217;s now tied for the Maelstrom lead with teammate Dick Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-05-2023_DET_NYA.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rockets @ Swats - 5\/5\/23\">Rockets @ Swats &#8211; 5\/5\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bret Saberhagen overcame a rough 1st inning, and the Detroit Rockets feasted on New York relief pitching, as the Rockets topped the Swats 12-4. Saberhagen allowed 3 runs on 5 singles in the 1st inning, but only allowed a run on 4 hits in the next 7 innings. Rafael Palmeiro hit a solo home run [&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-4007","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\/4007","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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}