{"id":4118,"date":"2025-09-22T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:50:11","slug":"williams-grand-slam-ends-splinters-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4118","title":{"rendered":"Williams Grand Slam Ends Splinters Losing Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WilliamsTedBOS.jpg?resize=199%2C273\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WilliamsTedBOS.jpg?w=199&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WilliamsTedBOS.jpg?resize=93%2C128&amp;ssl=1 93w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WilliamsTedBOS.jpg?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For 7 innings, it looked like David Cone would break his losing streak, and the Boston Splinters&#8217; losing streak would continue. Cone allowed just one run on 5 hits, and the Detroit Rockets took a 3-1 lead into the 8th. After striking out Carlton Fisk, Ichiro Suzuki reached on a base hit, but Nellie Fox grounded into a force play for the 2nd out. Cone walked Wade Boggs, and Frank Thomas laced a single to load the bases. Cone got ahead of Ted Williams in the count, but left one too far over the plate. Williams connected with a deep grand slam to give Boston a 5-3 lead. Eddie Plank pitched a scoreless 8th in his 1st appearance for Boston. Rollie Fingers followed with a perfect 9th for his 10th save of the season. The victory breaks Boston&#8217;s 5-game losing streak. Cone has now lost his last 7 starts. Suzuki went 3 for 3 with a walk for Boston. Lou Whitaker went 3 for 4 and drove in 2 runs for Detroit. Gaylord Perry improved to 5-2, allowing 2 earned runs on 6 hits in 7 innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-10-2023_BOS_DET.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Splinters @ Rockets - 5\/10\/23\">Splinters @ Rockets &#8211; 5\/10\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 7 innings, it looked like David Cone would break his losing streak, and the Boston Splinters&#8217; losing streak would continue. Cone allowed just one run on 5 hits, and the Detroit Rockets took a 3-1 lead into the 8th. After striking out Carlton Fisk, Ichiro Suzuki reached on a base hit, but Nellie Fox [&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-4118","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\/4118","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=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}