{"id":708690,"date":"2026-05-25T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/708690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:45:14","slug":"westmoreland-wpial-baseball-playoff-capsule-for-tuesday-may-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/708690\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmoreland WPIAL baseball playoff capsule for Tuesday, May 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WPIAL baseball playoffs<\/p>\n<p>Class 4A<\/p>\n<p>Third-place game<\/p>\n<p>13-Derry (9-10) vs. 6-Hopewell (16-6)<\/p>\n<p>7 p.m. Tuesday at Ross Memorial Park, Washington &amp; Jefferson<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s at stake: The winner qualifies for the PIAA playoffs, while the loser\u2019s season is finished.<\/p>\n<p>Players to watch: Carson Long, Derry; James \u201cBooboo\u201d Armstrong, Hopewell<\/p>\n<p>Extra bases: Derry reached the WPIAL semifinals for the first time since 1994 but fell to top-seeded Indiana, 3-0. The Trojans were silenced as only Liam McMahen managed a hit off of Shane McHugh and Charlie Manzi. Long, a Shippensburg commit, is hitting .511 with four home runs, 17 RBIs and 15 runs scored. Pitcher Max Doherty is 4-2 with a 2.47 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 39 2\/3 innings. \u2026 Hopewell lost to Elizabeth Forward, 4-3, in the semifinals. Charles Smetana drove in a run in the loss. Armstrong (.409, 27 hits, 21 runs, 14 stolen bases) is a coveted quarterback recruit who has 25 Division I offers. Smetana is hitting .409 with 18 RBIs, and Ben McDonald has six homers and 19 RBIs. Pitcher Kingston Krotec has been exceptional with a 9-0 record, 0.85 ERA and 49 K\u2019s in 57 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WPIAL baseball playoffs Class 4A Third-place game 13-Derry (9-10) vs. 6-Hopewell (16-6) 7 p.m. Tuesday at Ross Memorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":["post-708690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116637409163482896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708690","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=708690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}