{"id":409578,"date":"2024-05-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=409578"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Undefeated-Braves-Phillies-lead-NSA-baseball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Undefeated-Braves-Phillies-lead-NSA-baseball-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Braves, Phillies lead NSA baseball league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves in the Major League and Phillies of the Junior League currently lead the Natibu Sports Association Youth Baseball League played at the Capitol Hill Softball Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves\u2019 undefeated streak of five straight wins comes after they beat Ol\u2019Aces, 17-1, last Saturday, while the Phillies nabbed their fourth straight win when they defeated Comets Jr., 15-5, last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Braves&#8217; game against Ol\u2019Aces, their pitching staff almost came away with a shutout until a run was scored by Ol\u2019Aces in the third inning.<\/p>\n<p>That was the only blunder though as pitcher Dayton Marchadesch brought his heaters and registered nine strikeouts. Marchadesch\u2019s offense was also on fire after a three-run first inning from the top of the lineup. Marchadesch scored the first run, followed by Dylan Barcinas and Elijah Babauta.<\/p>\n<p>Two runs would score in the second for a 5-0 Braves lead, then the floodgates opened in the third as they scored 12 runs. In the end, Ol\u2019Aces\u2019 lone run was a tiny prick in the Braves\u2019 17-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, the Phillies remained undefeated as they scored 10 more runs against Comets Jr., 15-5.<\/p>\n<p>The Comets struck first as they scored four in the first inning, but the Phillies\u2019 offense was a floodgate just waiting to burst open.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long as the Comets held onto the lead only until the second inning when the Phillies scored four to tie it up, 5-5.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the Phillies racked up four runs in the third and fourth. In the last inning, they added three more for a 15-5 game.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies\u2019 Jequinn Lizama reached base safely in all three plate appearances and scored two runs, while Jesus Santos scored two runs as well after getting on base twice.<\/p>\n<p>In other results last Saturday, the Comets blasted the Pirates, 24-9, and Lil\u2019 Cubs clobbered the Cobras, 19-15. Last Sunday, Ol\u2019Aces beat the Marlins, 11-1, and the Braves Jr. team defeated the Blue Jays Jr. team, 13-12.<\/p>\n<p>In the standings after the Braves are Ol\u2019Aces at 4-1; Comets and Lil\u2019 Cubs are tied with 3-2; Marlins are at an even 2-2; Lil\u2019 Blue Jays are 1-2; and Cobras and Pirates have yet to win with four losses.<\/p>\n<p>After the Phillies are Braves Jr. at 3-1; Blue Jays Jr. are 1-3; and Comets Jr. have zero wins and four losses.<\/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\/b692005a156f3b8296f9607a51d6484d.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The Phillies Junior League team in the Natibu Sports Association Youth Baseball League poses for a photo at the Capitol Hill Softball Field.<\/p>\n<p>-NSA <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\/f7fb7b559872f4586eb7798298a3d200.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The Braves Major League team in the Natibu Sports Association Youth Baseball League poses for a photo at the Capitol Hill Softball Field.<\/p>\n<p>-NSA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/c0c0bf89ee071299b1b2fb45cefc61c8.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>NSA Standings.png<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves in the Major League and Phillies of the Junior League currently lead 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-409578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409578","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=409578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}