{"id":3467,"date":"2009-08-13T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/local-hs-baseballers-win-mlb-s-rbi-world-series\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T04:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:44:00","slug":"local-hs-baseballers-win-mlb-s-rbi-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/local-hs-baseballers-win-mlb-s-rbi-world-series","title":{"rendered":"Local HS Baseballers Win MLB’s RBI World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Photo of the junior division champs courtesy Bancroft Creative Group, MLB
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We told you last week<\/a> about the Major League Baseball Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) tournament that a number of local ballplayers were competing in, including Wilson’s Soloman Williams and Chase DeJong, Poly’s Thomas Walker and recent alum Mario Gordon, and Lakewood’s JP Crawford.  <\/span>Over the weekend, the West division RBI teams brought home both the Junior and Senior titles, with a dominating performance that undoubtedly made a good impression on big league scouts (seven of nine games were ended by the mercy rule for the Junior squad).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

DeJong got the start and the win in the championship game, as the West beat Santo Domingo 10-3 for the title.  <\/span>Crawford was the tournament MVP, going 2-for-2 with two walks, a triple and three RBIs in the squad’s finale. “As long as our pitchers were throwing strikes, we were going to win,” he told MLB.com’s Alden Gonzalez.  <\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

DeJong gave up three runs in 4 2\/3 innings with 8 Ks. “A lot of teams, they collapse under pressure when they get down,” De Jong told Gonzalez. “This team, we thrive off it.”<\/o:p><\/p>\n

You can read Gonzalez’s full account of the game by clicking here<\/a>\u2014congrats to the local kids for continuing their winning ways!<\/p>\n

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Some local Moore League baseball players from Lakewood, Wilson, and Poly got an early jump on the championship hunt by bringing home the MLB’s RBI World Series title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}