{"id":4046,"date":"2025-07-23T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:38:59","slug":"ryan-dominates-rockets-oakland-pulls-closer-with-5-1-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Grounds Rockets, Oakland Pulls Closer with 5-1 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RyanNolan.png?resize=185%2C281\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RyanNolan.png?w=185&amp;ssl=1 185w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RyanNolan.png?resize=84%2C128&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RyanNolan.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After 4 straight losses, Nolan Ryan started the 2nd half off right. Ryan held the Detroit Rockets to just one run on 5 hits, striking out 9 to earn his 4th win of the season, moving the Oakland Jacks to just one win behind Detroit and New York in the American League race. The Boston Splinters still hold a 7-game lead. The only Detroit run came on a Mark McGwire RBI single. McGwire finished with 3 of Detroit&#8217;s 5 hits. Kevin Appier allowed 3 runs on 6 hits in 7 innings, striking out 8 in his 1st start for the Rockets. Dan Quisenberry allowed 2 more runs in an inning of relief. Lou Boudreau and Lou Gehrig each went 3 for 4 to set the tone at the top of the lineup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-06-2023_DET_OAK.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rockets @ Jacks - 5\/6\/23\">Rockets @ Jacks &#8211; 5\/6\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 4 straight losses, Nolan Ryan started the 2nd half off right. Ryan held the Detroit Rockets to just one run on 5 hits, striking out 9 to earn his 4th win of the season, moving the Oakland Jacks to just one win behind Detroit and New York in the American League race. The Boston [&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-4046","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\/4046","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=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}