{"id":4311,"date":"2026-01-03T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:28:58","slug":"bottom-seeded-pirates-stay-hot-dispatch-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4311","title":{"rendered":"Bottom-seeded Pirates Stay Hot, Dispatch Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MizellVinegarBendPIT.png?resize=217%2C293\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MizellVinegarBendPIT.png?w=217&amp;ssl=1 217w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MizellVinegarBendPIT.png?resize=95%2C128&amp;ssl=1 95w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MizellVinegarBendPIT.png?resize=24%2C32&amp;ssl=1 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates continued their hot play, topping the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals 8-1 to advance in the National League winner&#8217;s bracket. Lou Brock led off the game with a double, and Vinegar Bend Mizell walked Juli\u00e1n Javier and Curt Flood, but a sacrifice fly and two groundouts limited the damage to just one run. It would be the only run the Cardinals would manage, as Mizell allowed just 4 more hits in his complete-game victory. Ray Washburn exited in the 2nd inning with a calf injury, and Dick Hughes gave up a single and a walk with 2 outs before Bill Virdon launched a grand slam to give the Pirates a 5-1 lead. Pittsburgh would add 3 more runs against St. Louis relief to continue their tournament domination. The Cardinals will have a few days to regroup before trying to make it out of the Elimination Bracket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-12-2025_STL_PIT.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'68 Cardinals @ '60 Pirates - 9\/12\/25\">&#8217;68 Cardinals @ &#8217;60 Pirates &#8211; 9\/12\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates continued their hot play, topping the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals 8-1 to advance in the National League winner&#8217;s bracket. Lou Brock led off the game with a double, and Vinegar Bend Mizell walked Juli\u00e1n Javier and Curt Flood, but a sacrifice fly and two groundouts limited the damage to just one [&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":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4311","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\/4311","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=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}