{"id":193955,"date":"2026-05-16T03:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193955\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:31:13","slug":"baseball-recap-west-scranton-takes-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193955\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Recap: West Scranton Takes a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\">Friday just wasn&#8217;t the day for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/scranton\/west-scranton-invaders\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Scranton<\/a>&#8216;s offense. They came up short against  the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/covington-township\/north-pocono-trojans\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Pocono Trojans<\/a> on Friday, falling  9-0. Having soared to a lofty 16  runs in the game before, the Invaders&#8217; shutout was a dramatic turnaround.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"IDf898bb1cc9ec4e2d87e0960c69e67dcd\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778902273_309_a29db514-c300-4bc1-8820-e76843f52385.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID5a44a8d0b6a3401dbfd7ed45235c0b28\" 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\"> Mason Lesh<\/p>\n<p>05\/15\/26 @ North Pocono105\/14\/26 @ Scranton105\/14\/26 vs Scranton1<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> West Scranton saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/scranton\/west-scranton-invaders\/athletes\/mason-lesh\/?careerid=l0f2cefiq3277\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Mason Lesh<\/a>, who  went 2-for-3 with one  stolen base. Lesh is  on a roll when it comes to  stolen bases, as he&#8217;s  now  snagged  at least one in each of the last three games he&#8217;s  played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">West Scranton has  been struggling recently as they&#8217;ve  lost nine of their last 11 contests. That&#8217;s put a noticeable dent in their 5-15 record  this season. As for North Pocono, the  win was  the fifth in a row for them, bringing their record up to 10-10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">As of now, neither West Scranton nor the Trojans have any future games scheduled.<\/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":"Friday just wasn&#8217;t the day for West Scranton&#8216;s offense. They came up short against the North Pocono Trojans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-193955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}