{"id":36959,"date":"2026-05-21T16:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=36959"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:21:38","slug":"patriots-drop-wild-17-16-game-at-dekalb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/patriots-drop-wild-17-16-game-at-dekalb\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots drop wild 17-16 game at DeKalb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sounded more like a football score than a softball final, but the seventh inning at DeKalb Wednesday may take the cake in the 2026 season for wildest inning after both teams scored nine runs for a scorigami-type game as the Barons got the better of Heritage 17-16. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeKalb held Heritage scoreless as they built a lead through the first five innings, taking an 8-0 lead into the sixth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s when the Patriots went crazy, scoring seven to make it a one-run game and then keeping DeKalb off the board in the bottom of the inning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then came the inning that was really wild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heritage pushed nine runs across in the top half to take what would surely be an insurmountable final-inning lead of 16-8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, DeKalb scored nine themselves and walked it off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer Haverstock homered and drove in five runs for the home team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No stats or information were received for Heritage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounded more like a football score than a softball final, but the seventh inning at DeKalb Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,40,26],"class_list":["post-36959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-heritage","tag-softball","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-sports.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36960,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959\/revisions\/36960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}