{"id":230374,"date":"2026-03-21T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:38:14","slug":"oakland-tech-takes-a-loss-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230374\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Tech Takes a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland Tech<\/a> fought the good fight in their extra-innings  contest against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/san-lorenzo\/arroyo-dons\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arroyo<\/a>  on Thursday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Dons by a score of  7-6. The Bulldogs just can&#8217;t catch a break and have now endured three defeats in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">Oakland Tech handed starting duties to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/athletes\/ben-weade\/?careerid=2aulo8muq59o8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Ben Weade<\/a>, who gave a strong showing despite the result:  he  struck out nine batters over  seven innings while giving up  four earned  (and two unearned) runs off   seven  hits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"IDb618dba399f04809b31cfeae79c7ab02\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774118294_39_c35eb9a1-800f-405d-956f-852dbefe5ec8.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"IDcc66abd7347d4d7f8c2f45ab883d36de\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\"> Elijah Rucker<\/p>\n<p>03\/19\/26 @ Arroyo303\/06\/26 @ De Anza302\/21\/26 vs Washington303\/18\/26 vs Head-Royce203\/11\/26 vs Hercules2<a id=\"ID7a11c2d00fee47acab73e8fba9414264\" style=\"color:#212021;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/athletes\/elijah-rucker\/?careerid=smkut2uicn9n7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 1 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> At the plate, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/athletes\/elijah-rucker\/?careerid=smkut2uicn9n7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Elijah Rucker<\/a> made the most of his time in the batter&#8217;s box despite the final result and  went 3-for-4 with two  stolen bases, two  runs,  and one  double. Oakland Tech is 2-1 when  Rucker posts three or  more  hits, but 2-3 otherwise. The team also got some help courtesy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/athletes\/sebastian-godinez\/?careerid=4hdml0uajd6rb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Sebastian Godinez<\/a>, who  went 1-for-3 with one  run, one  double,  and one  RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">Oakland Tech suffered their first road  loss, dropping their record down to 4-4. As for Arroyo, they now  have a winning record of 3-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Oakland Tech wasted no time getting back out on the field and has already played their next  game,  a  9-8  win against Castro Valley on the 20th. As for Arroyo, they will be playing in front of their home fans against Ukiah  at 12:00  p.m.  on Saturday. The Wildcats will roll in looking for their  fourth straight  victory, something the Dons surely won&#8217;t give up without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Tech fought the good fight in their extra-innings contest against Arroyo on Thursday but wound up with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-230374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}