{"id":4287,"date":"2025-12-25T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2025-12-25T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:40:59","slug":"nl-race-remains-tight-as-maddux-shuts-down-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4287","title":{"rendered":"NL Race Remains Tight, as Maddux Shuts Down LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MadduxGreg2-194x300.jpg?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MadduxGreg2.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MadduxGreg2.jpg?resize=83%2C128&amp;ssl=1 83w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MadduxGreg2.jpg?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MadduxGreg2.jpg?w=242&amp;ssl=1 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Greg Maddux turned in a masterful performance, and the St. Louis Wizards punished Carl Hubbell, as they topped the Los Angeles Dynamos 8-1. Maddux allowed just one baserunner in the 1st 6 innings, allowing just 3 hits while striking out 8. The only run allowed was the result of a fumbled ball in front of the plate by Mike Piazza. It was also Piazza who gave St. Louis a 3-0 lead with a solo home run in the 3rd inning. Willie Wells, in the leadoff spot for the 1st time, hit a grand slam in the 6th to make it 8-0. Wells finished 3 for 5, and was just a double short of the cycle, leading the Wizards offense. It was just the 3rd loss of the season for Hubbell, who allowed all 8 runs on 11 hits in just 6 innings. There are now just 5 1\/2 games separating 1st and last place in the National League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-16-2023_STL_LAN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wizards @ Dynamos - 5\/16\/23\">Wizards @ Dynamos &#8211; 5\/16\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Maddux turned in a masterful performance, and the St. Louis Wizards punished Carl Hubbell, as they topped the Los Angeles Dynamos 8-1. Maddux allowed just one baserunner in the 1st 6 innings, allowing just 3 hits while striking out 8. The only run allowed was the result of a fumbled ball in front of [&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-4287","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\/4287","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=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}