{"id":340302,"date":"2026-05-31T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340302\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:15:12","slug":"sports-briefs-pacifics-rally-falters-against-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340302\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Briefs: Pacifics&#8217; rally falters against Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aki Buckson homered twice and Fred Buckson added a shot of his own, but it wasn\u2019t enough for the San Rafael Pacifics in Saturday night\u2019s 14-6 home loss to the Bakersfield Train Robbers at Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacifics fell behind 7-0 before Aki Buckson swatted a three-run homer over the left field fence in the bottom of the third inning. Fred Buckson connected for a solo shot in the fifth, and Aki Buckson cleared the centerfield fence in the eighth inning. Kyle Guerra\u2019s RBI-single in the bottom of the ninth brought around Payton Rios, but the Pacifics\u2019 rally effort could not gain any traction.<\/p>\n<p>San Rafael (5-4) is 1-3 against Bakersfield (7-5) in the first month of the Pecos League season. The Pacifics are scheduled to play at Martinez at 2 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hall of Fame<\/p>\n<p>Tam is accepting nominations for its second Athletics Hall of Fame class, to be celebrated on Nov. 7 at the Mill Valley Community Center. Male or female athletes and teams from the class of 2016 or earlier are eligible. Nomination forms can be found at tamhighboosters.com.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting scores<\/p>\n<p>Coaches are encouraged to report scores, stats and game details via email to sports@marinij.com or to @marinij_sports on Twitter following games. Due to a much earlier print deadline that went into effect in late May, most events will run in print a day late going forward. Every effort will be made to get same-day results in the web version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aki Buckson homered twice and Fred Buckson added a shot of his own, but it wasn\u2019t enough for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,81034,180,138161,127],"class_list":["post-340302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-marin-sports","tag-newsletter","tag-san-rafael-pacifics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340302","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=340302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}