{"id":4673,"date":"2026-06-22T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:36:22","slug":"piazza-leads-breakaway-st-louis-tops-chicago-7-4-to-close-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4673","title":{"rendered":"Piazza Leads Breakaway, St. Louis Tops Chicago 7-4 to Close Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PiazzaMikeSTL.jpg?resize=190%2C263\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PiazzaMikeSTL.jpg?w=190&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PiazzaMikeSTL.jpg?resize=92%2C128&amp;ssl=1 92w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PiazzaMikeSTL.jpg?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Piazza helped the St. Louis Wizards strike 1st and last, helping the team top the Chicago Docs 7-4 in the final game of the season for both teams. Piazza hit a 2-run double in the 1st off Orel Hershiser to help the Wizards to a 3-0 lead. Keith Hernandez helped Chicago respond with a solo home run against Don Sutton in the bottom of the inning. The Docs tied it in the 3rd when they loaded the bases with no outs. A fielder&#8217;s choice and a sacrifice fly made it 3-3. An RBI single by Willie Mays put St. Louis back on top, but Buster Posey tied it again with a solo homer. In the 7th, facing Jerry Koosman, Piazza came through again, bashing a 3-run shot to put the Wizards up 7-4 for good. Rich Gossage pitched a scoreless 9th to earn his 10th save. Piazza finished 2 for 4 with 5 RBI. St. Louis finished the season 25-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/POPsS2\/Scoresheets\/05-31-2023_STL_CHN.png\">Wizards @ Docs &#8211; 5\/31\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Piazza helped the St. Louis Wizards strike 1st and last, helping the team top the Chicago Docs 7-4 in the final game of the season for both teams. Piazza hit a 2-run double in the 1st off Orel Hershiser to help the Wizards to a 3-0 lead. Keith Hernandez helped Chicago respond with a [&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-4673","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\/4673","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=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}