{"id":132591,"date":"2020-06-29T21:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T02:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=132591"},"modified":"2020-06-29T21:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T02:54:51","slug":"blue-jays-outscore-van-wert-11-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/06\/29\/blue-jays-outscore-van-wert-11-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays outscore VW Cougars 11-10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DELPHOS \u2013 A walk-off run in the seventh inning proved to be the difference as Delphos St. John\u2019s defeated Van Wert in a wild one, 11-10, in summer season baseball action at Stadium Park on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winning run came on an error that allowed Zane Wertenberger to score from second base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trailing 5-2 after four innings of play, the Cougars plated five runs in the fifth, including a two-RBI double by Jacob Place that allowed Luke Wessell and Kaiden Bates to score, and an RBI double by Owen Treece that scored Place. Bates also had a double in the inning. Back-to-back singles by Ethan Rupert and Joshua Halker plated Treece and Rupert and gave the Cougars a 7-5 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Delphos St. John\u2019s countered with five runs in the bottom half of the fifth, including a grand slam home run by Gavin Fittro, who finished the game with three hits and five RBIs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiden Pratt scored on an error in the sixth and Bates scored on a sacrifice fly by Treece to pull Van Wert to within one, 10-9. Rupert scored on a fielder\u2019s choice in the seventh to tie the game 10-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treece led the Cougars with two hits and three RBIs, while Place knocked in a pair of runs. Halker pitched the first four innings and allowed five runs (three earned) on five hits while striking out seven and walking three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars (5-6) will play at Elida at 6 p.m. tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports DELPHOS \u2013 A walk-off run in the seventh inning proved to be the difference as Delphos St. John\u2019s defeated Van Wert in a wild one, 11-10, in summer season baseball action at Stadium Park on Monday night. The winning run came on an error that allowed Zane Wertenberger to score from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 10:36:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}