{"id":460886,"date":"2023-09-28T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=460886"},"modified":"2023-09-28T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:07:07","slug":"astros-breeze-past-mariners-8-3-to-cement-wild-card-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/astros-breeze-past-mariners-8-3-to-cement-wild-card-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros breeze past Mariners 8-3 to cement wild card lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros emerged victorious in their clash against the Seattle Mariners in a comfortable fashion 8-3 to boost their chances for the last AL wild card spot on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good morning. Astros win. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zno8zrPLXQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zno8zrPLXQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Astros (@astros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astros\/status\/1707258870274412938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Dubon was the star of the match as he hit a tiebreaking, 3-run homer in the 4th inning, which gave Houston a commanding advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Julio Rodr\u00edguez went 0 for 4 with four strikeouts and was 0 for 9 in the series. Mariners batters struck out 16 times, while Seattle went 1 for 13 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did a lot of good things to create opportunities offensively, but ultimately you\u2019ve got to cash in, \u201c manager Scott Servais said. \u201dWe were unable to do that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the result Houston moved 1 1\/2 games ahead of their opponent for the final wild card spot as they head to Arizona to a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to have that game,\u201d Baker said. \u201cThat was another example of how important getaway days are. I don\u2019t know what our record is, but pretty good. These guys are conscious of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros emerged victorious in their clash against the Seattle Mariners in a comfortable fashion 8-3 to boost their chances for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":460887,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16729,17225],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18539,21537,19035],"acf":{"announce":"The Houston team once again ran riot and deservedly won","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460888,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460886\/revisions\/460888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460886"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=460886"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=460886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}