{"id":4115,"date":"2025-09-11T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:37:43","slug":"koosman-shuts-out-la-chicago-closes-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"Koosman Shuts Out LA, Chicago Closes Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoosmanJerry.png?resize=184%2C265\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoosmanJerry.png?w=184&amp;ssl=1 184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoosmanJerry.png?resize=89%2C128&amp;ssl=1 89w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoosmanJerry.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the Los Angeles Dynamos shut out the Chicago Docs. Today, Chicago returned the favor. Jerry Koosman continued his hot streak, allowing just 6 hits and striking out 7 to improve to 5-2. Since his last loss, Koosman is 4-0 with a 0.77 ERA. LA came close to scoring in the 3rd when a Jimmy Rollins error loaded the bases with 2 outs. But Koosman struck out Turkey Stearnes to get out of the inning. Randy Johnson allowed 3 runs on just 5 hits, striking out 10 in 7 innings for the Dynamos. Albert Pujols hit just his 2nd home run of the season, a solo shot in the 4th. Sammy Sosa added a homer in the 8th that ended Johnson&#8217;s night. The win puts Chicago just 4 games behind Houston in the National League. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-09-2023_LAN_CHN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dynamos @ Docs - 5\/9\/23\">Dynamos @ Docs &#8211; 5\/9\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Los Angeles Dynamos shut out the Chicago Docs. Today, Chicago returned the favor. Jerry Koosman continued his hot streak, allowing just 6 hits and striking out 7 to improve to 5-2. Since his last loss, Koosman is 4-0 with a 0.77 ERA. LA came close to scoring in the 3rd when a Jimmy [&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-4115","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\/4115","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=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}