{"id":31725,"date":"2017-09-23T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31725"},"modified":"2017-09-23T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:06:15","slug":"2017-pan-ams-playoff-round-day-2-final-6-teams-battle-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31725","title":{"rendered":"2017 Pan Ams &#8211; Playoff Round Day 2 &#8211; Final 6 Teams Battle it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31589\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internettv.tv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PanAms_2017_logo-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PanAms_2017_logo-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PanAms_2017_logo.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for live stream<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the 2017 Pan-American Championship Medal Round Sunday, there are six teams battling it out response in those games. \u00a0 The playoff round began on Friday, September 22, 2017, with fans being treated to some great games. \u00a0 The top four teams were seeded in &#8220;double life&#8221; matchups Friday and treated fans to some closely fought contests.<\/p>\n<h3>Double Life Games (USA v. ARG)<\/h3>\n<p>The USA defeated Canada, 6-5, behind the pitching of Tony Mancha and empowered by home runs from Eric Ochoa and Yusef Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina overcame an early Venezuela lead, to win their game 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of those two games the USA and Argentina will square off in the &#8220;Double Life&#8221; final Saturday at 2 PM EDT (likely 4 PM EDT due to rain delay).<\/p>\n<h3>Elimination Games (Cuba v. Venezuela; Canada v. Mexico)<\/h3>\n<p>The other four remaining teams, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico will square off elimination games, for the right to play the loser of the USA v. \u00a0Argentina in the bronze medal game.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba will take on Venezuela in the early contest, followed by Mexico versus Canada in the afternoon game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campeonatospanamericanos.org\">Click here for further details at the official tournament website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional information and updates on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>@Fastpitchwest<\/p>\n<p>@USASoftball<\/p>\n<p>@SoftballCanada<\/p>\n<p>@SoftbolARG<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2017 Pan-American Championship Medal Round Sunday, there are six teams battling it out response in those games. \u00a0 The playoff round began on Friday, September 22, 2017, with fans being treated to some great games. \u00a0 The top four teams were seeded in &#8220;double life&#8221; matchups Friday and treated fans to some closely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,28,9,38,23,61,82],"tags":[814,193,818,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-31725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-broadcasts","8":"category-canada","9":"category-featured","10":"category-international","11":"category-latinamerica","12":"category-tournaments","13":"category-usa-softball","14":"category-wbsc","15":"tag-panamsoftbolrd2017","16":"tag-softballcanada","17":"tag-softbolarg","18":"tag-usasoftball","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31728,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725\/revisions\/31728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}