{"id":11,"date":"2012-04-18T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-04-18T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T04:05:09","slug":"berkeley-springs-slips-by-east-hardy-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Springs Slips by East Hardy 5-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the bottom of the eighth inning. Visiting Berkeley Springs was up 5-4 courtesy of a sacrifice fly ball by Jared Spielman scoring Zach Wise in the top of the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>East Hardy only need one run to tie it and send it to the ninth. East Hardy\u2019s Brady Hinkle was up at bat. Bases empty.<\/p>\n<p>Hinkle is a big boy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-tIvZJ_3Quk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And he put all his weight behind a fast ball from Tyler Holt.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as it left Hinkle\u2019s bat, everyone at the East Hardy complex in Baker, West Virginia knew it had a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Wise, who was playing center field, started back to the fence.<\/p>\n<p>And in East Hardy, starting back to the fence means running backwards \u2013 uphill.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, uphill. The last twenty feet in the outfield at East Hardy is uphill to the fence.<\/p>\n<p>So, up Wise went.<\/p>\n<p>Running backwards \u2013 up the hill.<\/p>\n<p>Curving to his left.<\/p>\n<p>Crashing into the fence.<\/p>\n<p>Up against it.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching up, grabbing Hinkle\u2019s home run ball to be.<\/p>\n<p>And crashing into the advertising sign.<\/p>\n<p>And bringing it down.<\/p>\n<p>Wise\u2019s spectacular catch saved the game.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Holt, who pitched another gem, got the last batter to ground out.<\/p>\n<p>And the game was over.<\/p>\n<p>Wise also had a two run double to tie the game at four \u2013 and scored the winning run off Spielman\u2019s sac fly.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley Springs improved to 8-9.<\/p>\n<p>They will play Clear Spring Wednesday night at Clear Spring, Maryland at 4:45 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the bottom of the eighth inning. Visiting Berkeley Springs was up 5-4 courtesy of a sacrifice fly ball by Jared Spielman scoring Zach Wise in the top of the eighth. East Hardy only need one run to tie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}