{"id":2880,"date":"2026-02-16T19:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:21:35","slug":"blitzed-by-footthrower-dragons-kings-sink-further-in-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/16\/blitzed-by-footthrower-dragons-kings-sink-further-in-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitzed by Footthrower, Dragons, Kings Sink Further in Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/player_24405.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2881\" \/>Behind the big bat of right fielder Bruggug Footthrower, the Dol Guldur Dragons have opened up a healthy early lead in the Two Towers Series. The Dragons topped the Numenor Kings, 7-6, at Dol Guldur Stadium in Game 2, and now hold a 2-0 edge in the best-of-7 series. Footthrower was 2 for 5 with a home run. He drove in 4 runs and scored once to power Dol Guldur to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Footthrower delivered a run-scoring sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 11th to win it for Dol Guldur. In the contest, Footthrower went 2 for 5 with a home run, while adding 4 RBI and scoring once.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re learning some lessons in the school of hard knocks,&#8221; philosophized losing manager Vugnar Mithrilhammer.<\/p>\n<p>The next game is set to be played for Saturday, October 21st , 2051 at Capital One Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the big bat of right fielder Bruggug Footthrower, the Dol Guldur Dragons have opened up a healthy early lead in the Two Towers Series. The Dragons topped the Numenor Kings, 7-6, at Dol Guldur Stadium in Game 2, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/16\/blitzed-by-footthrower-dragons-kings-sink-further-in-series\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dol-guldur-dragons","category-league-news","category-numenor-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","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=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}