{"id":3521,"date":"2026-08-20T23:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:01:52","slug":"royals-prevail-as-hobbit-series-goes-to-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/08\/20\/royals-prevail-as-hobbit-series-goes-to-the-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Prevail, as Hobbit Series Goes to the Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/player_26836.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3522\" \/>Sunday, October 6th , 2052<br \/>\nThe Rivendell Royals and Erebor Eagles put on a classic Hobbit Series that was in question until the final game.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Rivendell won the deciding contest by a score of 5-3, to take the series 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t get much tighter than that. To win a series in the last game is a thrill,&#8221; said Columbus Marblerage, who earned series MVP honors for Rivendell. &#8220;Our guys are breathing a little easier now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the series, Marblerage hit .500 with a .500 on-base percentage. He had 0 home runs, drove in 1 RBI and scored 2 runs.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivendell Royals will play against the Minas Ithil Wyrms in the next round. Minas Ithil had a bye in the Hobbit Series. The Fellowship Series schedule will be announced after the Hobbit Series finishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, October 6th , 2052 The Rivendell Royals and Erebor Eagles put on a classic Hobbit Series that was in question until the final game. In the end, Rivendell won the deciding contest by a score of 5-3, to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/2026\/08\/20\/royals-prevail-as-hobbit-series-goes-to-the-wire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erebor-eagles","category-rivendell-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","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=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solonor.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}