{"id":4378,"date":"2026-02-01T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:51:27","slug":"walsh-shuts-out-oakland-new-york-has-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4378","title":{"rendered":"Walsh Shuts Out Oakland, New York Has Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WalshEdAL-203x300.jpg?resize=203%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WalshEdAL.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1 203w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WalshEdAL.jpg?resize=86%2C128&amp;ssl=1 86w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WalshEdAL.jpg?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WalshEdAL.jpg?w=293&amp;ssl=1 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ed Walsh had his best performance of the season, shutting out the Oakland on 4 hits in a game that the New York Swats won 7-0. Robin Yount got the first Oakland Jacks hit in the 5th inning. New York scored the 1st run off Whitey Ford in the 2nd. Babe Ruth hit a towering flyball that hit a bird for a ground-rule double, scoring on a 2-out double by Charlie Gehringer later in the inning. Tony Oliva misplayed a grounder to start the 3rd, and Derek Jeter hit a 3-run homer just a few batters later. Gehringer added a 2-run single to cap a 5-run inning. Ford exited after 6 innings, allowing 6 earned runs on 9 hits. Bob Lemon allowed just 1 hit and struck out 5 in 3 innings of relief. The win moved New York to 5 1\/2 games back in the American League. Oakland is 10 1\/2 games back with just 11 left to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-19-2023_NYA_OAK.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Swats @ Jacks - 5\/19\/23\">Swats @ Jacks &#8211; 5\/19\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Walsh had his best performance of the season, shutting out the Oakland on 4 hits in a game that the New York Swats won 7-0. Robin Yount got the first Oakland Jacks hit in the 5th inning. New York scored the 1st run off Whitey Ford in the 2nd. Babe Ruth hit a towering [&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-4378","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\/4378","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=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}