{"id":4013,"date":"2025-07-09T14:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:57:01","slug":"oakland-hurlers-combine-to-shutout-splinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Hurlers Combine to Shutout Splinters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FordWhitey-205x300.png?resize=205%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FordWhitey.png?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FordWhitey.png?resize=87%2C128&amp;ssl=1 87w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FordWhitey.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/FordWhitey.png?w=265&amp;ssl=1 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Whitey Ford, Lefty Grove, and Early Wynn combined to shutout the powerful Boston Splinters offense, as the Oakland Jacks avoided a sweep with a 6-0 win. Ford allowed just 3 hits in 5 innings before leaving the game with shoulder stiffness. Grove allowed another hit in 2 innings of relief, and Wynn closed the game with two perfect innings for a save. Rickey Henderson got Oakland on the board against Jim Palmer, hitting a 2-run home run in the 3rd inning. Oakland added another run against Palmer in the 6th. Harmon Killebrew led off the 9th with a solo homer off Dennis Eckersley. Lou Gehrig added a 2-run single later in the inning. It was Ford&#8217;s 1st start after being used as a long reliever in the first half of the season. Grove was 2-2 in 6 starts with a 7.15 ERA before his move to the bullpen. Boston has lost just 9 games this season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-05-2023_OAK_BOS.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jacks @ Splinters - 5\/5\/23\">Jacks @ Splinters &#8211; 5\/5\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitey Ford, Lefty Grove, and Early Wynn combined to shutout the powerful Boston Splinters offense, as the Oakland Jacks avoided a sweep with a 6-0 win. Ford allowed just 3 hits in 5 innings before leaving the game with shoulder stiffness. Grove allowed another hit in 2 innings of relief, and Wynn closed the game [&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-4013","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\/4013","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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}