{"id":402414,"date":"2023-12-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402414"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Efraim-Duenas-lead-SBL-Masters-League","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Efraim-Duenas-lead-SBL-Masters-League\/","title":{"rendered":"Efraim, Duenas lead SBL Masters League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of Dec. 14, Reds\u2019 Hector Efraim is the batting leader, while Marlins pitcher Ben Duenas is still the pitching leader in the 2023 Tan Holdings-SBL Master\u2019s League.<\/p>\n<p>Efraim leads the league in batting average with .750, going six hits out of eight at-bats. Second to him is teammate Mike Techur at .667 from six out of nine at-bats. Pirates\u2019 Pete Tomokane rounds up the Top 3 with a batting average of .636 from seven hits out of 11 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates first baseman Audie Maratita is at the top in two offensive categories\u2014doubles and RBIs. He has nine RBIs, followed by Bruce Norita, Jess Mesa, and Tomokane\u2019s seven each; Eric Palacios, Richard Quitugua, and Shine Tenorio have six each; while Ed Manibusan has five.<\/p>\n<p>Maratita, Manibusan, Cris George, J-Boy Deleon Guerrero, Tenorio, and Tony Pangelinan have two doubles each; and 11 other players are tied with one each.<\/p>\n<p>The most runs scored are Alvin Takai, Derek Aguon, James Benavente, and Tomokane with nine each; Cartfield Sablan and Walter Macaranas have eight each; Glen Camacho has seven; and Jerome Delos Santos and Jun Salalila are at six each.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan and Quitugua have the most triples with two each, while Manibusan and Tomokane hit one each.<\/p>\n<p>So far, there are still no home runs in the league.<\/p>\n<p>For pitching, the pitching leader is still 62-year-old Duenas with a 0.00 ERA; 0-0 record seven hits; 0 ER, and three innings in one game played. The Pirates\u2019 Dung Tenorio is right there with him with also a 0.00 ERA, three hits, 0 ER, 1-0 record; and three innings in one game played. The Pirates\u2019 Pete Sablan is still in the Top 3 with a 1.56 ERA, nine hits, 2-0 record; two ER, and nine innings pitched in three games played.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays\u2019 Kevin Kapileo leads the league with the most strikeouts with 16; Pete Sablan has 13; Alvin Takai collected seven; Clint Quitugua and Tony Flores have six each; Tony Benavente made five; and Bill Camacho and Dominic Hideo three four strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9ee91874d81ba985229cb1978b28b629.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Top 2 leading pitcher as of Dec. 14 in the 2023 Tan Holdings-SBL Masters League, Pirates&#8217; Dung Tenorio, looks to his catcher for a sign during their game Wednesday night at the Francisco &#8220;Tan Ko&#8221; Palacios Baseball Field.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/ce124925e45d93f15bc3eceeb664e821.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Pirates&#8217; Audie Maratita is on top of two offensive categories\u2014RBIs and doubles\u2014as of Dec. 14 in the 2023 Tan Holdings-SBL Masters League.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Dec. 14, Reds\u2019 Hector Efraim is the batting leader, while Marlins pitcher Ben&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402414","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=402414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}