{"id":24443,"date":"2026-07-02T05:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24443"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:54:34","slug":"driving-them-in-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/driving-them-in-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Them In Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HMLEe2zXAAAkOB4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24444\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HMLEe2zXAAAkOB4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HMLEe2zXAAAkOB4.jpg 656w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HMLEe2zXAAAkOB4-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>Last Friday, the White Sox dropped 22 runs on the Royals, setting the high-water mark for the most runs I\u2019ve seen a team score in person.\u00a0 That record lasted less than a week.\u00a0 Yesterday, the Cubs bested them by a run in their 23-3 victory against the Padres, thanks to a franchise-record tying eight home runs.\u00a0 Dansby Swanson carried the day with three home runs and eight RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>A small caveat here is that the Cubs scored the final eight runs against a position player, while the White Sox managed to get all 22 of their runs against actual members of the Royals pitching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, the White Sox dropped 22 runs on the Royals, setting the high-water mark for the most runs I\u2019ve seen a team score in person.\u00a0 That record lasted less than a week.\u00a0 Yesterday, the Cubs bested them by a run in their 23-3 victory against the Padres, thanks to a franchise-record tying eight home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,10258,231,126,49],"class_list":["post-24443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-padres","tag-royals","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24445,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions\/24445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}