{"id":4665,"date":"2026-06-17T20:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:19:39","slug":"late-hodges-hr-clinches-world-series-spot-for-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"Late Hodges HR Clinches World Series Spot for Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juan Marichal outdueled Sandy Koufax, limiting the Los Angeles Dynamos to two runs on 6 hits to clinch a World Series spot for the Houston Hoots. Things didn’t look great early for Houston. Tony Gwynn led off the game with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly in the 1st. Gwynn then hit a solo home run in the 3rd inning to give LA a 2-0 lead. Tim Raines’ speed generated the 1st run for Houston when he singled, stole 2nd, and advanced to 3rd on a flyout. Oscar Charleston singled him home to cut the lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the 3rd. Raines led off the 5th with a double, and Charleston, once again, brought him home, this time with a double to tie the game. Koufax scattered 9 hits, but the last hit came when Gil Hodges hit a leadoff homer in the 8th inning to give the Hoots a 3-2 lead. Bruce Sutter came in to close out the 9th, throwing a perfect 9th for his 17th save and clinching the win for the Houston Hoots. Houston will enter the final day of the regular season with a 2-game lead over the LA Dynamos for the National League pennant, and will advance to face the Boston Splinters in the World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dynamos @ Hoots – 5\/30\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Juan Marichal outdueled Sandy Koufax, limiting the Los Angeles Dynamos to two runs on 6 hits to clinch a World Series spot for the Houston Hoots. Things didn’t look great early for Houston. Tony Gwynn led off the game with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly in the 1st. Gwynn then hit a […]<\/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-4665","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\/4665","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=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}