{"id":4143,"date":"2025-10-14T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:34:26","slug":"houston-rides-carlton-miscue-to-3rd-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4143","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rides Carlton Miscue to 3rd Straight Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?resize=169%2C257\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?w=169&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?resize=84%2C128&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Steve Carlton and the St. Louis Wizards had another rough loss. This time, Carlton himself was mostly to blame. With two outs in the 2nd inning, Carlton issued a pair of walks and added a bobbled grounder that would have ended the inning. Instead, Tim Raines broke through with a 2-run single to give the Houston Hoots an early lead. Carlton allowed just one earned run in 7 innings while striking out 7. Houston hurler Phil Niekro was even better. Niekro allowed a run on just 3 hits entering the 8th inning. Mike Piazza&#8217;s 2-out double plated two more. Houston added insurance runs on sacrifice flies in the 8th and 9th to hand on to win it 6-3. Bruce Sutter dominated in the 9th, striking out all 3 hitters he faced. He earned his 11th save and has yet to allow an earned run this season. Houston has now won 3 in a row, keeping space from Los Angeles in the National League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-11-2023_HOU_STL.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Hoots @ Wizards - 5\/11\/23\">Hoots @ Wizards &#8211; 5\/11\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Carlton and the St. Louis Wizards had another rough loss. This time, Carlton himself was mostly to blame. With two outs in the 2nd inning, Carlton issued a pair of walks and added a bobbled grounder that would have ended the inning. Instead, Tim Raines broke through with a 2-run single to give the [&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-4143","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\/4143","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=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}