{"id":4314,"date":"2026-01-05T19:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:25:43","slug":"griffey-powers-oakland-over-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4314","title":{"rendered":"Griffey Powers Oakland over Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GriffeyKen.png?resize=195%2C295\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GriffeyKen.png?w=195&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GriffeyKen.png?resize=85%2C128&amp;ssl=1 85w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GriffeyKen.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ken Griffey Jr. hit a 2-run home run in the 1st inning, and added an RBI double in the 7th to power the Oakland Jacks to a 4-2 win over the Detroit Rockets. Oakland overcame an early injury to starter Hal Newhouser in the 3rd. Lefty Grove stepped in and pitched 5 2\/3 innings of 3-hit relief. Two of those hits came in the 8th when Bobby Grich singled, and Thurman Munson followed with a 2-run homer. Grove struck out 6 and picked up the win. Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect 9th for his 4th save of the season. Detroit slipped to 19-22 with the loss. Oakland is still in last place in the American League at 16-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-17-2023_OAK_DET.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jacks @ Rockets - 5\/17\/23\">Jacks @ Rockets &#8211; 5\/17\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Griffey Jr. hit a 2-run home run in the 1st inning, and added an RBI double in the 7th to power the Oakland Jacks to a 4-2 win over the Detroit Rockets. Oakland overcame an early injury to starter Hal Newhouser in the 3rd. Lefty Grove stepped in and pitched 5 2\/3 innings 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-4314","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\/4314","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=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}