{"id":31932,"date":"2013-03-27T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=31932"},"modified":"2013-03-27T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T03:02:50","slug":"wildcats-claw-up-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=31932","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats Claw Up Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Corey Kwok<\/div>\n<div>(South Pasadena) &#8211; Monrovia seldom missed a beat offensively and scored in every inning except the sixth en route to wrapping up an easy 11-1 victory over South Pasadena in a key Rio Hondo league match Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><!--more-->The Wildcats darted ahead 2-0 in the opening stanza on a two run Daly double (James Daly) that delivered Erik Cox (2-4, RBI, 2B) and David Perez (3-5, 3 runs, 1-1 SB) who both strung back singles to lead off the inning before Joe Mata bunted them into scoing position.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mata (2-3, run, RBI, 1-1 SB), later zooming a single to right in the second that picked up Lorenzo Alvarado (1-3, BB, 2 runs) stretched the lead to 5-0, also dug deep as the Cats&#8217; starting pitcher, tossing a grueling 86 pitches over five shutout innings to earn the win.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nick Esparza dealt a three strikeout donut in the sixth, and sidearm righty Brian McConnell ended the game with a strikeout and pickoff to nix off the Tigers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nick Carino flew in Mata on a sacrifice flyout to left-center and James Tubbs came through with a two out RBI double off the left field wall to knock in Daly and swell Monrovia&#8217;s cushion to 8-0 in the fourth. Coleman Schultz (RBI walk) and Esparza (RBI single) bookended M-Town&#8217;s scoring in the seventh.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>South Pas finally got on the board in the bottom half as Skyler Anselmo drove in Paul Amerine with a double to the centerfield alley. Anselmo had a fine day at the plate going 2 for 2 with two walks. Christian Miyamae was hit by pitch once and also batted 2 for 2.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Tigers used five pitchers; its starter &#8211; Bryan Bednarski, left early in the second after hitting the leadoff batter and balking over the runner.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>M:\u00a0 231 210 2 &#8211; 11, 13, 0<\/div>\n<div>SP: 000 000 1 &#8211; 1, 5, 3<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Corey Kwok (South Pasadena) &#8211; Monrovia seldom missed a beat offensively and scored in every inning except the sixth en route to wrapping up an easy 11-1 victory over South Pasadena in a key Rio Hondo league match Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31933,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932\/revisions\/31933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}