{"id":277964,"date":"2026-09-03T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277964\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:08:07","slug":"windy-city-scores-three-runs-in-eighth-to-beat-crushers-5-3-morning-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277964\/","title":{"rendered":"Windy City scores three runs in eighth to beat Crushers, 5-3 \u2013 Morning Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Host Windy City scored three times in the eighth inning to take the lead and held on to beat the Crushers, 5-3, on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Crushers (40-56) put a runner on first base with one out in the ninth, but the ThunderBolts got the last two outs to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>Crushers reliever Alexander Castro (2-5) gave up all three runs in the eighth and took the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Brayden Jobert had two hits, including a two-run single, for Lake Erie. Jacob Connery had three hits, including a double, and scored twice.<\/p>\n<p>The Crushers have one more game at Windy City before a season-closing home series against Joliet beginning Sept. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Host Windy City scored three times in the eighth inning to take the lead and held on to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19154,136,138,137,726],"class_list":["post-277964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-crushers","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277964","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=277964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}