{"id":2886,"date":"2026-02-16T19:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:25:59","slug":"numenor-breaks-through-for-first-win-in-two-towers-series-now-trails-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/16\/numenor-breaks-through-for-first-win-in-two-towers-series-now-trails-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Numenor Breaks Through for First Win in Two Towers Series; Now Trails 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/player_24072-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2888\" \/>The Numenor Kings have closed some of the gap between themselves and the series-leading Dol Guldur Dragons, winning, 5-4, at Capital One Stadium. Kings third baseman Krutrush Trollthrottler was 3 for 3 with 2 doubles and a walk. He scored 3 runs. The win cuts the deficit facing the Kings to 2-1 in the best-of-7 Two Towers Series.<\/p>\n<p>Romenna, Human Lands-born Rumzug Steale came through in the clutch. In the bottom of the eighth, with runners on 1st and 2nd and the Kings trailing 4-3, he hit a 2-run double to left to put Numenor on top.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to make good contact,&#8221; said Trollthrottler, &#8220;one at-bat at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next game is set to be played tomorrow at Sunday, October 22nd , 2051.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Numenor Kings have closed some of the gap between themselves and the series-leading Dol Guldur Dragons, winning, 5-4, at Capital One Stadium. Kings third baseman Krutrush Trollthrottler was 3 for 3 with 2 doubles and a walk. He scored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/02\/16\/numenor-breaks-through-for-first-win-in-two-towers-series-now-trails-2-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","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\/2886","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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}