{"id":4271,"date":"2025-12-16T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:52:18","slug":"carlton-shannon-help-cards-avoid-pirate-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4271","title":{"rendered":"Carlton, Shannon Help Cards Avoid Pirate Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ShannonMikeSTL68-202x300.png?resize=202%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ShannonMikeSTL68.png?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ShannonMikeSTL68.png?resize=86%2C128&amp;ssl=1 86w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ShannonMikeSTL68.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ShannonMikeSTL68.png?w=254&amp;ssl=1 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facing a sweep at the hands of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals showed up. Steve Carlton took a 6-hit shutout into the 9th, and Mike Shannon drove in 4 runs as the Cardinals won it 6-2. Shannon singled in Curt Flood in the 1st off Harvey Haddix. Shannon singled in two more runs in the 5th to give St. Louis a 4-0 lead. It was Shannon again who drove in another run in the 8th with a leadoff home run. Carlton had allowed just 6 hits and a walk heading into the 9th. Roberto Clemente tripled in between a couple of singles, finally scoring two runs off the Cardinals&#8217; hurler, but Carlton struck out the next 3 hitters, all looking, to finish with 12 strikeouts on the game. The win gives St. Louis another chance tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-11-2025_STL_PIT.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'68 Cardinals @ '60 Pirates - 9\/11\/25\">&#8217;68 Cardinals @ &#8217;60 Pirates &#8211; 9\/11\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a sweep at the hands of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals showed up. Steve Carlton took a 6-hit shutout into the 9th, and Mike Shannon drove in 4 runs as the Cardinals won it 6-2. Shannon singled in Curt Flood in the 1st off Harvey Haddix. Shannon singled in two [&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":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-60s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","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=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}