2023 Season: Game 144 Recap \u2013 Sept. 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After hitting a Saints triple-A franchise record 21st<\/sup> home run of the season last night (Wednesday) at CHS Field, Chris Williams asked teammate Jair Camargo for a small favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust doubles and triples for the rest of the week,\u201d Williams requested of Camargo. \u201cWe laughed about it.\u201d Before Williams\u2019 21st<\/sup>, Camargo (2023) and Brent Rooker (2021) shared the record with Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Saints defeated the Toledo MudHens, 6-3, with Williams\u2019 3-run blast to left field putting them ahead to stay. Their record improved to 82-63 (39-32 in the season\u2019s 2nd<\/sup> half) with four games left. The local lads had hoped to win the 2nd<\/sup> half, then an International League playoff against Norfolk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That outcome would have sent the Saints, as sole representative of the 20-team Il, to Las Vegas for the overall triple-A championship series against the 10-team California League winner. (20 IL teams, 10 Cali teams, one team from each league in the playoffs. Yeah, that makes sense!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow instead of going to Las Vegas we\u2019re going to try to win six games and finish the season strong,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To show you the team-first, statistics-don\u2019t-matter attitude of these young major league aspirants, Williams was shocked to learn how many grand slam home runs the team has hit \u2013 13, an International League record going back to at least the beginning of the statcast era in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI would have guessed about 7,\u201d Williams postulated. \u201cThat\u2019s crazy.\u201d He praised the Saints\u2019 coaches for the team\u2019s grand salami success, which at 13 is the best at any level of American baseball this year. Camargo and Williams each have 3 slams, so Camargo may at least tie Williams in that category, even if he can only muster doubles and triples the rest of the way.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Shortstop Lee would have been the second star if this were hockey. Lee drove in one run with a double in the first and deposited a towering solo homer onto the roof behind the Spire porch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saints starter Woods Richardson went two outs into the 6th<\/sup> inning and notched his 7th<\/sup> win in his last 8 decisions. He gave up 7 hits in 5 2\/3 innings, walked 2 batters and struck out 4. A Saints double play saved him in the 5th<\/sup> inning after the first batters hit a double and a single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The season-ending series continues tonight (Thursday) at 6:37 p.m. Friday and Saturday games will also start at 6:37, and Sunday\u2019s season finale will begin at 12:07 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to Hear and See the Saints<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All games on KFAN Plus (96.7 FM), I-Heart app, MiLB.TV, Bally app (Apple only); home<\/em> games on local television public programming (consult your TV listings); Saturday and Sunday home<\/em> games televised on WUCW (The CW Network).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2023 Season: Game 144 Recap \u2013 Sept. 20 After hitting a Saints triple-A franchise record 21st home run of the season last night (Wednesday) at CHS Field, Chris Williams asked teammate Jair Camargo for a small favor. \u201cJust doubles and triples for the rest of the week,\u201d Williams requested of Camargo. \u201cWe laughed about it.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gzrnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}