{"id":2853,"date":"2026-02-12T20:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:47:32","slug":"dol-guldur-wins-game-5-in-extras-on-verge-of-two-towers-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/12\/dol-guldur-wins-game-5-in-extras-on-verge-of-two-towers-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Dol Guldur Wins Game 5 in Extras; On Verge of Two Towers Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/player_24633.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61\" \/>When the games really matter, the Dol Guldur Dragons put on their best show, beating the Lothlorien Lumberjacks by a final score of 9-8. Rili McAuselan was 5-6 with a home run and 4 singles. He scored 4 times and drove in 2. Dol Guldur now leads Lothlorien 3-2 in the best-of-7 affair.<\/p>\n<p>A defensive lapse proved costly in the contest. With the game tied in the bottom of the 11th, an error by the Lumberjacks allowed the Dragons to score the winning run.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just tried to make good contact,&#8221; said Nicolaescu.<\/p>\n<p>Game 6 is scheduled for Monday at Celebrant Field in Caras Galadhon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the games really matter, the Dol Guldur Dragons put on their best show, beating the Lothlorien Lumberjacks by a final score of 9-8. Rili McAuselan was 5-6 with a home run and 4 singles. He scored 4 times and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/12\/dol-guldur-wins-game-5-in-extras-on-verge-of-two-towers-series\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dol-guldur-dragons","category-league-news","category-lothlorien-lumberjacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","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=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}