{"id":4580,"date":"2026-04-26T19:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:59:03","slug":"houston-overcomes-6-run-deficit-to-maintain-nl-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4580","title":{"rendered":"Houston Overcomes 6-run Deficit to Maintain NL Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CharlestonOscar1921-213x300.jpg?resize=213%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CharlestonOscar1921.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CharlestonOscar1921.jpg?resize=91%2C128&amp;ssl=1 91w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CharlestonOscar1921.jpg?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CharlestonOscar1921.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Cy Young allowed 7 runs on 13 hits in a rough start, but the Houston Hoots came back against Jerry Koosman and Chicago relief, topping Chicago 10-7 to keep a 2-game lead in the National League. Two-out RBIs by Sammy Sosa and Jim Edmonds helped Chicago out to an early lead in a 3-run 1st inning. Chase Utley hit a 3-run shot in the 4th to extend the lead to 6-0. Oscar Charleston drove in Jeff Bagwell in the bottom of the 4th, but Edmonds homered to keep a 7-1 lead for the Docs. But Houston wouldn&#8217;t go quietly. Gil Hodges hit a 3-run homer in a 4-run 5th, and Tim Raines hit a solo shot in the 6th to cut the lead to 7-6. Kent Tekulve gave up a double to Eddie Mathews in the 8th, and Paul Waner hit a pinch-hit single to tie the game. Later in the inning, with the bases loaded and two outs, Charleston broke things open with a bases-clearing double off reliever Rick Reuschel, giving Houston their 1st lead. Bruce Sutter&#8217;s scoreless 9th sealed the 10-7 win. The win maintains a 2-game lead in the National League for Houston, with 5 games left to play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-25-2023_CHN_HOU.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Docs @ Hoots - 5\/25\/23\">Docs @ Hoots &#8211; 5\/25\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cy Young allowed 7 runs on 13 hits in a rough start, but the Houston Hoots came back against Jerry Koosman and Chicago relief, topping Chicago 10-7 to keep a 2-game lead in the National League. Two-out RBIs by Sammy Sosa and Jim Edmonds helped Chicago out to an early lead in a 3-run 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","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\/4580","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=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}