{"id":4418,"date":"2026-02-19T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:09:39","slug":"two-big-innings-put-st-louis-on-top-of-houston-11-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4418","title":{"rendered":"Two Big Innings Put St. Louis on Top of Houston 11-5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before Cy Young could retire the 2nd out in the 1st inning, the Houston Hoots were down 5-0 against the St. Louis Wizards thanks to Mike Piazza’s 2-run single followed by a 3-run home run by Stan Musial. Tim Raines tripled in a run in the 3rd to get Houston on the board, but St. Louis got the run back in the 5th. St. Louis put together a 2-out rally in the 8th against reliever Fergie Jenkins. With Willie McCovey already on, Joe Morgan singled. Jenkins walked Willie Wells to load the bases, and Duke Snider hit a grand slam to give the Wizards a 10-1 lead. Musial drove in another run in the inning to give St. Louis a 10-run lead. Robin Roberts had allowed just one run on 7 hits heading into the bottom of the 8th. But 6 hits later, Houston had narrowed the lead to 11-5. Jesse Haines came in and pitched a perfect 9th to remove any hopes of a Houston comeback. Musial finished 3 for 5 with 4 RBI. The loss ended Houston’s 4-game winning streak and narrowed their lead in the National League to 2 games over the Los Angeles Dynamos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before Cy Young could retire the 2nd out in the 1st inning, the Houston Hoots were down 5-0 against the St. Louis Wizards thanks to Mike Piazza’s 2-run single followed by a 3-run home run by Stan Musial. Tim Raines tripled in a run in the 3rd to get Houston on the board, but St. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-4418","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\/4418","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=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}