{"id":4657,"date":"2026-06-11T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:28:55","slug":"perry-primed-for-postseason-tops-oakland-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"Perry Primed for Postseason, Tops Oakland 6-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PerryGaylord-216x300.png?resize=216%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PerryGaylord.png?resize=216%2C300&amp;ssl=1 216w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PerryGaylord.png?resize=92%2C128&amp;ssl=1 92w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PerryGaylord.png?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PerryGaylord.png?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gaylord Perry finished up his last regular season start holding the Oakland Jacks to one run on 4 hits, improving to 8-3 and giving the Boston Splinters a chance of tying the St. Louis Wizards&#8217; record of 36-18 from last season. Jimmie Foxx hit a solo home run in the 5th for the only Oakland run. Mickey Mantle hit a solo homer for the Splinters, and Wade Boggs added a 2-run shot to lead the Boston offense against Whitey Ford. Two of Boston&#8217;s 6 runs were unearned, as Oakland committed three errors. Ichiro Suzuki was 0 for 4 heading into the 9th, before he slapped a single off Waite Hoyt to extend his hitting streak to 19 games. Boggs finished 3 for 4 with 3 RBI. Boston is now 34-18 with two games left in the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-29-2023_BOS_OAK.png\">Splinters @ Jacks &#8211; 5\/29\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaylord Perry finished up his last regular season start holding the Oakland Jacks to one run on 4 hits, improving to 8-3 and giving the Boston Splinters a chance of tying the St. Louis Wizards&#8217; record of 36-18 from last season. Jimmie Foxx hit a solo home run in the 5th for the only Oakland [&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-4657","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\/4657","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=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4658,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}