{"id":40843,"date":"2022-05-02T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T01:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-pepperjax-split-games-in-farmington\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:57:52","slug":"cortez-pepperjax-split-games-in-farmington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-pepperjax-split-games-in-farmington\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Pepperjax split games in Farmington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f4e431c1-932f-5f5d-850a-3dd6428ffdd2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1806\" height=\"2506\" alt=\"Kendrick McPherson scores against the Farmington White Sox Friday night in Farmington.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Kendrick McPherson scores against the Farmington White Sox Friday night in Farmington.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Pepperjax 12-and-under baseball team split two games Friday in the Farmington Amateur Baseball Congress league.<\/p>\n<p>The Pepperjax lost their opening game in Farmington to the 4 Corners Flyers 9-6, despite strong pitching from Shikayo Jones, Landin Ward and Zane Coffey, according to head coach Jason Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The defense made a strong effort, highlighted by a double play. Short stop Art Lein fielded a ball, and tossed to second baseman Costner Hernandez, who completed the double play with a throw to first baseman Zane Coffey.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=738d098c-d087-5e7f-984b-f30b66e42aa6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Chase York of the Pepperjax delivers from the mound against the Farmington White Sox on Friday night.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Chase York of the Pepperjax delivers from the mound against the Farmington White Sox on Friday night.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cA few first-game jitters with some mistakes that the Pepperjax couldn\u2019t recover from led to the opening-day loss,\u201d Hernandez said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The Pepperjax turned it around for the nightcap game, though, unleashing its bats and dominating the Farmington White Sox 17-2 in a game shortened by a mercy rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChase York dominated on the mound with a complete game, \u201d Hernandez said.<\/p>\n<p>Next up at the Farmington Baseball Complex, the Cortez Pepperjax will face the New Mexico Thunder at 2 p.m. and the Sidewinders at 4 p.m. on May 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12-and-under team beats Farmington White Sox 17-2, loses to 4 Corners Flyers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-baseball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84778,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843\/revisions\/84778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40843"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}