{"id":4663,"date":"2026-06-16T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:38:35","slug":"boston-overcomes-wildness-tops-oakland-in-11-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"Boston Overcomes Wildness, Tops Oakland in 11 Innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SuzukiIchiro-195x300.png?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SuzukiIchiro.png?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SuzukiIchiro.png?resize=83%2C128&amp;ssl=1 83w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SuzukiIchiro.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SuzukiIchiro.png?w=205&amp;ssl=1 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bert Blyleven allowed just two hits, but the Boston Splinters needed extra innings, eventually winning in the 11th on their only run scored thanks to a base hit. A sacrifice fly off Nolan Ryan gave Boston an early lead. In the 5th, George Brett&#8217;s throwing error, and a questionable call led to a big inning for the Oakland Jacks. Lou Boudreau watched an apparent strike 3 for what should have been the 3rd out, but the home plate ump called the pitch outside. After some chattering from the Boston dugout, Blyleven struggled to throw a called strike, walking 5 batters in the inning and allowing 4 runs. Another sacrifice fly in the 6th, and two runs on groundouts in the 7th after a couple of errors tied the game 4-4. Relievers keptt things tied until the 11th, when Ichiro Suzuki doubled in Carlton Fisk. Rollie Fingers pitched a perfect 9th to seal the win and earn his 13th save. Suzuki finished 2 for 5 and has hit safely in 20 games for the 2nd time this season. If Boston wins tomorrow, they&#8217;ll tie last year&#8217;s St. Louis Wizards for most wins in a season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-30-2023_BOS_OAK.png\">Splinters @ Jacks &#8211; 5\/30\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bert Blyleven allowed just two hits, but the Boston Splinters needed extra innings, eventually winning in the 11th on their only run scored thanks to a base hit. A sacrifice fly off Nolan Ryan gave Boston an early lead. In the 5th, George Brett&#8217;s throwing error, and a questionable call led to a big inning [&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-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pops-s2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","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=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}