{"id":2851,"date":"2026-02-12T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:44:30","slug":"critical-game-5-goes-to-host-kings-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/12\/critical-game-5-goes-to-host-kings-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Game 5 Goes to Host Kings, 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/player_15001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1356\" \/>Game 5 was big. So was Till Underhill.<\/p>\n<p>In leading Numenor to a crucial 3-1 victory over the Minas Morgul Slayers at Capital One Stadium, the Numenor starter rose to the occasion, tossing 6 good innings. Underhill threw 6.0 innings allowing 1 run as the Kings defended their home field to seize a 3-2 lead in the best-of-7 Fellowship Series.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e0rku Hammersmelter, who led the MC in home runs with 46 in 2051, came through for Numenor with a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth. The left fielder went 2 for 4 for the game, including 1 home run and 1 double. He scored 1 run and collected 1 run batted in.<\/p>\n<p>Underhill called the win a test of his team&#8217;s &#8220;mettle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next game is set to be played for Monday, October 16th , 2051 at Sylvan Cove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game 5 was big. So was Till Underhill. In leading Numenor to a crucial 3-1 victory over the Minas Morgul Slayers at Capital One Stadium, the Numenor starter rose to the occasion, tossing 6 good innings. Underhill threw 6.0 innings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/12\/critical-game-5-goes-to-host-kings-3-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-news","category-minas-morgul-slayers","category-numenor-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}