{"id":2849,"date":"2026-02-12T20:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:42:54","slug":"almost-there-bywater-on-cusp-of-series-triumph-after-2-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/12\/almost-there-bywater-on-cusp-of-series-triumph-after-2-0-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost There: Bywater On Cusp of Series Triumph After 2-0 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/player_22447.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2235\" \/>Hsin-ping Sandybanks pitched a gem to help the Bywater Bounders escape with a tight, 2-0 victory over the Old Forest Merry Fellows in a low-scoring Fellowship Series contest. The left-handed Sandybanks threw 8.0 innings of shutout ball in the win, just enough for the Bounders on a day when their offense dried up. Bywater now leads the best-of-7 series 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Merry Fellows had trouble solving Sandybanks, who surrendered no runs on 3 hits over 8 innings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to make sure I&#8217;m focused for each and every pitch,&#8221; said Sandybanks.<\/p>\n<p>The next game is set to be played tomorrow at Sunday, October 15th , 2051.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hsin-ping Sandybanks pitched a gem to help the Bywater Bounders escape with a tight, 2-0 victory over the Old Forest Merry Fellows in a low-scoring Fellowship Series contest. The left-handed Sandybanks threw 8.0 innings of shutout ball in the win, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/12\/almost-there-bywater-on-cusp-of-series-triumph-after-2-0-win\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bywater-bounders","category-league-news","category-old-forest-merry-fellows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","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=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}