{"id":4698,"date":"2026-07-10T10:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:52:45","slug":"boston-wins-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4698","title":{"rendered":"Boston Wins World Series!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For 5 innings, the Houston Hoots battled the Boston Splinters in hopes of forcing a Game 7. In the end, Boston won Game 6 in the same way they’ve won throughout the series: with timely pitching and a relentless offense. For the 5th time in 6 games, Boston scored in the 1st inning, this time with a George Brett sacrifice fly that scored the speedy Ichiro Suzuki. Houston starter Phil Niekro allowed just one hit over the next 4 innings. Boston starter Roy Halladay saw some redemption. Halladay got knocked out in the 3rd inning of Game 3. This time, Halladay carried a shutout into the 5th before Ernie Lombardi’s solo home run tied the game 1-1. Niekro finally faltered in the 6th, allowing singles to Suzuki and Alan Trammell before George Brett took a 1-1 pitch deep to right field for a 3-run homer. Boston would add to their lead in the next inning too. Roberto Clemente’s pinch-hit single in the 8th made it a 7-2 game, but Rollie Fingers made sure that was as close as Houston would get, pitching a scoreless 9th to seal the World Series win. Brett was an offensive force in the World Series, batting .500, hitting 2 homers, and driving in 9 runs. Five of those runs came in Game 6 alone. With the Detroit Rockets’ World Series win last year, an American League team has now won both POPs League World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoots @ Splinters – 6\/10\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For 5 innings, the Houston Hoots battled the Boston Splinters in hopes of forcing a Game 7. In the end, Boston won Game 6 in the same way they’ve won throughout the series: with timely pitching and a relentless offense. For the 5th time in 6 games, Boston scored in the 1st inning, this time […]<\/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-4698","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\/4698","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=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}