{"id":513,"date":"2018-06-23T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/little-league-pirates-surge-past-red-sox-for-title\/"},"modified":"2018-06-23T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T01:19:00","slug":"little-league-pirates-surge-past-red-sox-for-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/little-league-pirates-surge-past-red-sox-for-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Little League: Pirates surge past Red Sox for title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gastineau Channel Little League&rsquo;s Flying Squirrel Pirates won the Junior Division championship on Saturday night at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Field.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the Pirates&rsquo; win on <a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/news\/sports\/2018-06-23\/little-league-pirates-force-if-game-red-sox\" target=\"_blank\">Friday<\/a>, the game was close for long stretches, and it took clutch hitting late to seal a 14-3 victory over the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>With the game tied at one, Gaby Soto&rsquo;s double in the fourth inning provided the spark the Pirates desperately needed. Soto&rsquo;s shot put his team up 3-1 and led to more run-scoring hits by Josh Carte and Kai Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates doubled their lead in the fifth and final inning when Carte, Soto, Chris Harris, Nate Burkhart, Preston Williams, Mason Ackman and Rae Razor all scored.<\/p>\n<p>Caden Mesdag, Garrett Bryant and Finn Kesey scored the only runs for the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Carte struck out six and allowed just four hits over 4 2\/3 innings. Bryant allowed four hits and seven runs and struck out seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gastineau Channel Little League&rsquo;s Flying Squirrel Pirates won the Junior Division championship on Saturday night at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}