{"id":4099,"date":"2025-08-20T13:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:57:19","slug":"seavers-1st-shutout-keeps-national-league-race-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4099","title":{"rendered":"Seaver&#8217;s 1st Shutout Keeps National League Race Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SeaverTom.png?resize=183%2C273\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SeaverTom.png?w=183&amp;ssl=1 183w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SeaverTom.png?resize=86%2C128&amp;ssl=1 86w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SeaverTom.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Seaver allowed 9 hits and walked 3, but still managed to keep the Chicago Docs scoreless, picking up his 1st shutout of the season. Seaver struck out 7. Meanwhile, Chicago&#8217;s William Bell allowed just 1 hit through 4 innings before things fell apart. Ron Santo hit a 2-run double in the 5th to get Los Angeles on the board. Three straight hits to lead off the 6th lead to 2 more runs. Tony Gwynn drove in another in the 7th. Bell allowed 5 runs on 9 hits in 7 innings. The 5-0 loss spoiled a great defensive day for Chicago, who turned 4 double-plays. The Los Angeles Dynamos had been tied with the Houston Hoots for 1st place in the National League just a few days ago before losing two in a row. This victory pulls them back to within 1 1\/2 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-08-2023_LAN_CHN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dynamos @ Docs - 5\/8\/23\">Dynamos @ Docs &#8211; 5\/8\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Seaver allowed 9 hits and walked 3, but still managed to keep the Chicago Docs scoreless, picking up his 1st shutout of the season. Seaver struck out 7. Meanwhile, Chicago&#8217;s William Bell allowed just 1 hit through 4 innings before things fell apart. Ron Santo hit a 2-run double in the 5th to get [&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-4099","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\/4099","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=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}