{"id":4643,"date":"2026-05-29T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:57:06","slug":"oakland-holds-off-late-rally-tops-boston-9-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4643","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Holds Off Late Rally, Tops Boston 9-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GibsonJoshNL.jpg?resize=201%2C290\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GibsonJoshNL.jpg?w=201&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GibsonJoshNL.jpg?resize=89%2C128&amp;ssl=1 89w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GibsonJoshNL.jpg?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oakland Jacks used two big innings to build a big lead over the Boston Splinters. Boston chipped away, but their 9th-inning comeback fell short, as the Jacks took the 1st game of the final season series 9-8. Oakland&#8217;s Lefty Grove walked in a run in the 2nd inning, and allowed a 2-run single to Ichiro Suzuki to give Boston an early 3-0 lead. In the 3rd, Josh Gibson hit a bases-clearing double during a 5-run inning to put the Jacks on top. Mickey Mantle hit an RBI grounder to tie it in the 4th, but Hank Greenberg overthrew 1st as part of a 3-run inning for Oakland. Gibson added another RBI single in the 6th. Wade Boggs hit a solo home run in the 7th to cut into the Oakland lead. Mariano Rivera gave up a leadoff double to Alan Trammell in the 9th, but struck out Boggs and Nap Lajoie. That&#8217;s when Iv\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez hit a two-run homer to make it a one-run game. Rivera rebounded to strike out Tris Speaker to save the game. Gibson finished 2 for 3 with 4 RBI. Lou Boudreau was 4 for 5. Suzuki was 2 for 4 to extend his hitting streak to 18 games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-28-2023_BOS_OAK.png\">Splinters @ Jacks &#8211; 5\/28\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Jacks used two big innings to build a big lead over the Boston Splinters. Boston chipped away, but their 9th-inning comeback fell short, as the Jacks took the 1st game of the final season series 9-8. Oakland&#8217;s Lefty Grove walked in a run in the 2nd inning, and allowed a 2-run single to [&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-4643","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\/4643","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=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4645,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}