{"id":2781,"date":"2026-02-02T21:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:58:50","slug":"wild-card-clinched-by-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/02\/wild-card-clinched-by-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Card Clinched by Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/numenor_kings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-773\" \/>Monday, October 2nd , 2051<br \/>\nFor the Numenor Kings, it&#8217;s not how you start, but how you finish. That&#8217;s the mantra the team is following after today qualifying for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We may be going into the playoffs as a wild card team, but we plan to finish the playoffs as champions,&#8221; said left fielder M\u00e0rku Hammersmelter. &#8220;There&#8217;s no shortage of confidence from guys in our clubhouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a record of 85-77, there will of course be teams with better track records in the postseason. But team manager Vugnar Mithrilhammer said his club has &#8220;infinite optimism&#8221; that they can win the franchise&#8217;s 3rd Tolkien Baseball championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 2nd , 2051 For the Numenor Kings, it&#8217;s not how you start, but how you finish. That&#8217;s the mantra the team is following after today qualifying for the playoffs. &#8220;We may be going into the playoffs as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/02\/wild-card-clinched-by-kings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numenor-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}