{"id":394283,"date":"2023-06-21T06:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=394283"},"modified":"2023-06-21T06:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:02:43","slug":"cardinals-falcons-lead-sbl-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cardinals-falcons-lead-sbl-standings\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals, Falcons lead SBL standings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this file photo, Falcons\u2019 Giovanni Mira gets a big lead off first base tries to get a read from Blue Jays pitcher during their game in the 2023 Tan Holdings-Saipan Baseball League at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Baseball Field.(LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Cardinals are still undefeated and on top of the standings, while the Falcons are in second place after their games last Tuesday and Friday in the 2023 Tan Holdings-Saipan Baseball League season at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Baseball Field.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals gave the SPC Survivors a beating that they could not recover from, 15-9, last Tuesday and the Falcons soared above the CK Bears, 9-4, last Friday.<\/p>\n

The Survivors did have a head start against the Cardinals after seven runs by the second inning, but they couldn\u2019t hold it long enough \twhen the Cardinals\u2019 offense caught fire in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n

It was a run-fest for the Survivors in the second inning with a lead-off walk by JJ. Takano, followed by a base hit by Trevon Lieto. Two more batters walked and was capped by a single from J-Boy Mendiola.<\/p>\n

The rest of the innings though, the Survivors were shut down by Cardinals pitching as they only put up two more runs in the third and sixth inning.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals\u2014although they had a slow start and were down by three runs in the third inning\u2014crushed the fourth inning with back-to-back base hits and as they capitalized on the Survivors\u2019 fielding errors. The Cardinals\u2019 Brian Camacho had a base-clearing double and by the time the third out registered, seven runs were on the board as the Cardinals took the lead, 12-8.
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In this file photo, Cardinals\u2019 Eli Aughenbaugh reaches home plate safely during their game against the D-9er\u2019s in the 2023 Tan Holdings-Saipan Baseball League at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Baseball Field.(LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The Cardinals scored two more runs in the fifth as K.J. Villagomez and Ton Tenorio rounded the bases, and one more run in the last inning from a single by Nate Camacho.<\/p>\n

In the Falcons\u2019 game against the Bears, the Falcons struck first for a five-run third inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, J.D. Magofna was hit by a pitch and moved to scoring position after a single by J.J. Lifoifoi, who were then brought in by M.J. Aldan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ian Norita walked in the next at-bat and was brought home by Brian Iguel. Peter Lieto took it upon himself to reach home as he took advantage of passed balls by the Bears\u2019 catcher.<\/p>\n

The Bears were only able to put something on the board in the sixth inning, but were still way behind the Falcons, 4-6. The Falcons\u2019 lead only lengthened after a three run last inning which was enough to snatch the W away from the Bears as they could not get past a dominant Falcons pitching performance.<\/p>\n

In last Wednesday\u2019s game, the Brewer\u2019s slipped past the Braves, 5-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals are still undefeated and on top of the standings, while the Falcons are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":394261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[731],"class_list":["post-394283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sbl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}