{"id":4612,"date":"2026-05-11T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:52:23","slug":"koufax-cruises-to-10th-win-la-closes-on-nl-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4612","title":{"rendered":"Koufax Cruises(?) to 10th Win, LA Closes on 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=\"211\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BiggioCraig1994-211x300.png?resize=211%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BiggioCraig1994.png?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BiggioCraig1994.png?resize=90%2C128&amp;ssl=1 90w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BiggioCraig1994.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BiggioCraig1994.png?w=239&amp;ssl=1 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After losing his last two starts, Sandy Koufax finally returned to form, allowing just one run on 5 hits through 8 innings against the St. Louis Wizards, finally earning his 10th win of the season, despite a 9th-inning push. Los Angeles jumped out early when Craig Biggio doubled in Tony Gwynn in a 3-run 1st inning. Two innings later, Biggio singled and stole 2nd. After a Willie Wells error, Todd Helton slugged a 3-run homer to put the Dynamos up 6-1. Turkey Stearnes added a 2-run single in the 6th. In the 9th, Mike Piazza led off with a solo homer to make it 8-2. Mike Schmidt doubled with 2 outs, and Johnny Mize hit a 3-run home run to make it 8-5 against a tiring Koufax. Koufax stuck it out to get the complete game victory. Biggio finished 4 for 4, scoring 3 runs and stealing two bases. LA is now just one game behind Houston for the NL lead, with a 4-game series against the Hoots to close the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-26-2023_LAN_STL.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dynamos @ Wizards - 5\/26\/23\">Dynamos @ Wizards &#8211; 5\/26\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing his last two starts, Sandy Koufax finally returned to form, allowing just one run on 5 hits through 8 innings against the St. Louis Wizards, finally earning his 10th win of the season, despite a 9th-inning push. Los Angeles jumped out early when Craig Biggio doubled in Tony Gwynn 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-4612","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\/4612","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=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}