{"id":3421,"date":"2026-08-03T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:17:00","slug":"elril-gara-named-sc-batter-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/08\/03\/elril-gara-named-sc-batter-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Elril-Gara Named SC Batter of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/player_22846.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-757\" \/>Sunday, September 1st , 2052<br \/>\nThuror Elril-Gara battered Shire Conference pitchers all August and wound up taking home the Batter of the Month Award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been around Tolkien Baseball long enough to know you really have to work hard day in and day out to be able to put up this kind of consistency,&#8221; the 28-year-old Elril-Gara told reporters. &#8220;I put in a lot of work, even on the days I might not take the field, and it&#8217;s always nice when everything comes together for me like it did this last month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 26 games, Elril-Gara hit .404 with 10 home runs, 30 RBIs and scored 21 runs.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Elril-Gara has posted a batting average of .294 with 114 hits in 388 at-bats, 23 home runs and 80 RBIs. He has also scored 56 runs, walked 47 times and compiled a .372 OBP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, September 1st , 2052 Thuror Elril-Gara battered Shire Conference pitchers all August and wound up taking home the Batter of the Month Award. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been around Tolkien Baseball long enough to know you really have to work hard day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/08\/03\/elril-gara-named-sc-batter-of-the-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minas-tirith-titans","category-player-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}