{"id":543638,"date":"2026-01-29T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/543638\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:18:17","slug":"carroll-softball-looks-to-take-next-step-baseball-back-in-playoff-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/543638\/","title":{"rendered":"Carroll: Softball looks to take next step; Baseball back in playoff mix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tigers Softball has been to the third round three years in a row. Baseball is looking to get back in the postseason after two years away.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Carroll Tigers&#8217; baseball and softball programs are getting ready for what they hope are big 2026 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Softball is coming off a third consecutive run to the third round. Head Coach AJ Caballero lost some senior starters off that squad, but do return a pair of key ones in shortstop Kaeleigh Mendez (Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi commit) and pitcher Isabella Montalvo.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers seniors say if some new freshman can come through with some contributions, Carroll has a chance to compete again both in the district and the region.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll Baseball might be one of the area&#8217;s blueblood programs, but they&#8217;re looking for a return to glory, or at least the postseason after missing out the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers return a wealth of experience, including senior pitchers Christian Hernandez and Aidan Saenz. The two lead an otherwise younger, but experienced returning lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach David Marsello figured they would take some lumps with the roster turnover the last couple years, but says he&#8217;s hoping now the Tigers can compete in an always tough District 29-5A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tigers Softball has been to the third round three years in a row. Baseball is looking to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-543638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115976936129030733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}