{"id":3187,"date":"2026-06-08T21:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:39:13","slug":"dogwood-swats-3-homers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/06\/08\/dogwood-swats-3-homers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogwood Swats 3 Homers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/player_19186.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3188\" \/>Wednesday, May 15th , 2052<br \/>\nToday was a special one for Banazir Dogwood of the Misty Mountain Hops as he slammed three home runs in the 9-7 Hops win over the Dead Marshes Uruk-hai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lately, I&#8217;ve been uppercutting the ball too much,&#8221; he said to sportswriters after the game. &#8220;I would hit it hard, but they just went sky high and stayed in the ballpark. No big long outs for me in this game. I leveled out my swing and connected on the sweet spot. I knew they were gone the minute I hit &#8217;em.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Misty Mountain center fielder collected 3 hits in 5 at-bats, drove in 4, and scored 3 runs in the contest at Uruk-hai Field.<\/p>\n<p>Banazir Dogwood hit a solo-shot off Pervinca Woodenguard in the 2nd, hit a solo-shot off Igbub Eyeslobberer in the 3rd, flied out in the 4th, hit a two-run home run off Dromzug the Atrocious in the 6th and grounded out in the 8th.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Dogwood has collected a .366 batting average to date with 52 hits in 142 at-bats, 30 RBIs, 8 home runs and scored 27 times. He has played in 38 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, May 15th , 2052 Today was a special one for Banazir Dogwood of the Misty Mountain Hops as he slammed three home runs in the 9-7 Hops win over the Dead Marshes Uruk-hai. &#8220;Lately, I&#8217;ve been uppercutting the ball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/06\/08\/dogwood-swats-3-homers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misty-mountain-hops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","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=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}