{"id":50257,"date":"2019-07-05T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/two-baseball-heavyweights-clash\/"},"modified":"2019-07-06T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T03:08:12","slug":"two-baseball-heavyweights-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/two-baseball-heavyweights-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Juneau Post 25 vs. South Post 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 6<\/p>\n<p>6:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau splits the doubleheader with South, winning 16-2 in five innings after losing the first game of the day 8-6.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau won Friday&rsquo;s game 12-2 in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Gage Webster scores one run for South in the bottom of the seventh, but it&rsquo;s not enough to prevent the 10-run mercy rule, which goes into effect after the fifth inning. Juneau&rsquo;s 16-2 victory marks the second-highest run total for the Midnight Suns this year after routing Bartlett 20-1 last month.<\/p>\n<p>5:55 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau Post 25 will avoid dropping their first back-to-back games this season the way things are going right now. Juneau has a commanding 15-1 lead over South Post 4 at the top of the fifth inning after falling to the Wolverines 8-6 earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Cox and Donavin McCurley each have home runs. Cox hit a three-run shot in the second inning, and McCurley rounded the bases with an inside-the-park home run in the top of the fourth inning<\/p>\n<p>Juneau made it to the semifinal game of the BP Invitational Tournament last week in Anchorage, losing to Auburn (Rhode Island) on Sunday. Juneau was 3-0 at that point, defeating Dimond 9-2 on Friday before pulling out tightly-contested wins over South, 7-6, and Napoleon, Ohio, 7-3, the following day.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two baseball heavyweights clash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":50258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-50257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50257"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}