{"id":4109,"date":"2025-09-09T09:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:47:58","slug":"hoots-win-20th-in-wagner-waner-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"Hoots Win 20th in Wagner, Waner Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Houston Hoots took advantage of 4 St. Louis Wizards errors, scoring 3 unearned runs in the 1st inning and holding off a late comeback to win their 20th game 4-3. Greg Maddux allowed just one earned run for St. Louis, but a Mike Schmidt error extended the 1st inning and put the Wizards behind 3-0 before they got to bat. Willie Stargell hit a solo home run to lead off the 3rd inning. It was his 9th of the season. Cy Young retired the first 9 batters he faced for Houston. The Wizards then cut the lead in half with 2 runs in the bottom of the 3rd. They added another in the 8th when Stan Musial hit his 2nd double of the game. Bruce Sutter collected his 9th save with a scoreless 9th inning. Honus Wagner was 2 for 5 in his debut, while Paul Waner went 1 for 4. Houston extended their narrow lead in the National League to 1 1\/2 games. The Wizards entered with a 3-game winning streak, but are 14-20 after the loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Houston Hoots took advantage of 4 St. Louis Wizards errors, scoring 3 unearned runs in the 1st inning and holding off a late comeback to win their 20th game 4-3. Greg Maddux allowed just one earned run for St. Louis, but a Mike Schmidt error extended the 1st inning and put the Wizards behind […]<\/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-4109","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\/4109","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=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}