{"id":4360,"date":"2026-01-24T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:29:18","slug":"gibson-shuts-out-chicago-houston-wins-3rd-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4360","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Shuts Out Chicago, Houston Wins 3rd Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL-191x300.jpg?resize=191%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?resize=191%2C300&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?resize=81%2C128&amp;ssl=1 81w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?w=246&amp;ssl=1 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob Gibson held Chicago to 5 hits and struck out 8, dominating the Docs with a shutout. Gibson is now tied with Koufax with 3 shutouts on the season. Clayton Kershaw pitched well, but couldn&#8217;t compete. Ted Simmons singled in Roberto Clemente in the 5th, and then Clemente hit a 2-run home run in the 9th, giving the Hoots a 3-0 win. Clemente finished 3 for 4. Kershaw allowed 8 hits in his 1st loss in two starts since joining the league after retiring from the MLB. Houston has taken advantage of Los Angeles&#8217; losing streak to increase their lead to 3 games in the National League with their 3rd straight win. Chicago has lost 3 in a row and is 7 games back with just 12 left to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-18-2023_HOU_CHN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Hoots @ Docs - 5\/18\/23\">Hoots @ Docs &#8211; 5\/18\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Gibson held Chicago to 5 hits and struck out 8, dominating the Docs with a shutout. Gibson is now tied with Koufax with 3 shutouts on the season. Clayton Kershaw pitched well, but couldn&#8217;t compete. Ted Simmons singled in Roberto Clemente in the 5th, and then Clemente hit a 2-run home run in the [&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":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4360","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\/4360","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=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}