{"id":4355,"date":"2026-01-20T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:34:45","slug":"koufax-cant-stop-la-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"Koufax Can&#8217;t Stop LA Losing Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?resize=188%2C288\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?w=188&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?resize=84%2C128&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MaysWillie.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After a 3-game losing streak that dropped them to 2 games back in the National League race, the Los Angeles Dynamos turned to ace Sandy Koufax. Koufax entered the game 9-2 with a 1.35 ERA. But the St. Louis Wizards had other plans, putting together a big inning and scoring 6 runs against the southpaw. Los Angeles looked good early, scoring 2 runs in the 1st off Don Sutton with a Todd Helton double and an errant throw by Willie Mays. In the 3rd, St. Louis responded with 5 base-hits, scoring 5 runs capped by a big 3-run homer by Mays. Mike Schmidt added a solo homer in the 4th to put the Wizards up 6-2. St. Louis took a 6-3 lead into the 8th when Billy Wagner nearly blew it. Four straight baserunners and a wild pitch led to two LA runs, but Gary Carter flew out and Tony Gwynn grounded out, stranding the tying run on 2nd base. Rich Gossage pitched a perfect 9th to seal the 6-5 win and earn his 7th save. Koufax hadn&#8217;t allowed more than 2 runs since Opening Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-18-2023_STL_LAN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Wizards @ Dynamos - 5\/18\/23\">Wizards @ Dynamos &#8211; 5\/18\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 3-game losing streak that dropped them to 2 games back in the National League race, the Los Angeles Dynamos turned to ace Sandy Koufax. Koufax entered the game 9-2 with a 1.35 ERA. But the St. Louis Wizards had other plans, putting together a big inning and scoring 6 runs against the southpaw. [&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-4355","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\/4355","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=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}