{"id":395640,"date":"2023-07-10T06:04:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=395640"},"modified":"2023-07-10T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:04:13","slug":"d-9ers-slip-past-survivors-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/d-9ers-slip-past-survivors-7-6\/","title":{"rendered":"D-9ers slip past Survivors, 7-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_395615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395615\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SBL-pixwb-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SBL-pixwb-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-395615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D-9ers pitcher Giovani Ayuyu is seen in this file photo during one of their games in the 2023 Tan Holdings-Saipan Baseball League at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Baseball Field.(LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The D-9ers finally raked in their third win in the 2023 Tan Holdings-Saipan Baseball League season against the Survivors last Thursday, 7-6, after two go-ahead singles by John Atalig and Dave Malwelbug in the fifth inning to retake the lead and hold onto the win.<\/p>\n<p>The game started off with a bang as the D-9ers\u2019 first three batters\u2014Isaiah Lizama, Ben Lizama, and Tindin Deleon Guerrero\u2014reached base and all scored. Giovanni Ayuyu hit an RBI single, while Derrick Sablan brought in the fourth run after a base hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their offense didn\u2019t get the third out until the last batter of the lineup grounded out to the Survivors\u2019 shortstop for a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Survivors tried to cut the lead in their at-bat and scored their first two lead-off batters after they both walked, stole two bases, and reached home on D-9ers fielding errors.<\/p>\n<p>The D-9ers couldn\u2019t score in the second inning and only had a one run 4-3 lead after the Survivors scored one in their at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>John Atalig then hit a double to get the D-9ers in scoring position and was then brought home after Robert Tudela hit an RBI single for a 5-3 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Survivors still had a chance to cut the lead and they actually overtook the D-9ers after they tacked on three runs in the fourth for a 6-5 game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the D-9ers still had some tricks up their sleeves as they scored two after singles by Atalig and Malwelbug in the fifth against Survivors pitcher Jason Reyes for a still close 7-6 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Survivors tried to rally in the last couple of innings, but were shut down in order by D-9ers pitcher Chris Gonzales to hold onto the one-run lead for the win. The D-9ers pitcher to start off the game was Jeremy Atalig.<\/p>\n<p>The D-9ers are tied with the Survivors at 3-7 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The D-9ers finally raked in their third win in the 2023 Tan Holdings-Saipan Baseball League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":395614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395640","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=395640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}