{"id":4655,"date":"2026-06-10T19:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:20:59","slug":"mathewson-shuts-out-chicago-for-5th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4655","title":{"rendered":"Mathewson Shuts Out Chicago for 5th Straight Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MathewsonChristyLB-210x300.png?resize=210%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MathewsonChristyLB.png?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MathewsonChristyLB.png?resize=90%2C128&amp;ssl=1 90w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MathewsonChristyLB.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MathewsonChristyLB.png?w=213&amp;ssl=1 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It might have taken the St. Louis Wizards too long, but once Christy Mathewson joined the starting rotation, he started winning. Mathewson earned 5 straight wins, capped by a 5-hit shutout of the Chicago Docs to end the season. Chicago starter Clayton Kershaw allowed three straight singles to start the game, but escaped the 1st inning, allowing just two runs. Kershaw allowed just one more run on 4 hits in the next 6 innings. Stan Musial led the St. Louis offense, going 3 for 5 with 2 RBI. Ryne Sandberg went 3 for 4 and scored 3 times. The Wizards now have a one-game lead on the Chicago Docs to stay out of last place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-29-2023_STL_CHN.png\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-29-2023_STL_CHN.png\">Wizards @ Docs &#8211; 5\/29\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might have taken the St. Louis Wizards too long, but once Christy Mathewson joined the starting rotation, he started winning. Mathewson earned 5 straight wins, capped by a 5-hit shutout of the Chicago Docs to end the season. Chicago starter Clayton Kershaw allowed three straight singles to start the game, but escaped the 1st [&hellip;]<\/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-4655","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\/4655","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=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}