{"id":402764,"date":"2023-12-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402764"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Pirates-lay-waste-to-Spartans-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Pirates-lay-waste-to-Spartans-16-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates lay waste to Spartans, 16-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The undefeated Pirates are still the league-leading team with five wins after they defeated the Spartans, 16-3, in the 2023 Tan Holdings-SBL Master\u2019s League last Wednesday at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Baseball Field.<\/p>\n<p>It was a run mercy-ruled game as the floodgates opened for the Pirates in the fifth inning. The Spartans\u2019 pitching staff could not put a leash on the Pirates&#8217; offense as they scored 12 consecutive runs in that inning alone.<\/p>\n<p>It started with a base on balls to Pete Sablan, who was then brought in by Pete Tomokane. Audie Maratita then hit an RBI-double, who in turn came home on another RBI double by Eric Palacios.<\/p>\n<p>From there, back-to-back-to-back RBI singles were made all the way from the bottom of the line-up and to the top again.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates had previously just scored one run in the first inning, two in the third, and one in the fourth for a 4-0 lead. The Spartans thought they could catch up after they scored two runs by the fourth inning, but their pitching staff could not handle the Pirates\u2019 offensive heat.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Pirates\u2019 Maratita had four RBIs, two hits out of three at-bats, two runs, and two doubles, while Rudy Guerrero claimed two RBIs, one hit, and one run.<\/p>\n<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\/d71439f92681373b280f0238e1f19b13.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Pirates&#8217; Mark Toves is in the batters&#8217; box during their 2023 Tan Holdings-SBL Masters League game against the Spartans last Wednesday at the Francisco &#8220;Tan Ko&#8221; Palacios Baseball Field.<\/p>\n<p>-LEIGH GASES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undefeated Pirates are still the league-leading team with five wins after they defeated the&#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-402764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402764","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=402764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}