{"id":31748,"date":"2017-09-24T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31748"},"modified":"2017-09-24T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:31:41","slug":"2017-pan-ams-bronze-medal-for-usa-as-they-fall-to-venezuela-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31748","title":{"rendered":"2017 Pan Ams &#8211; Bronze Medal for USA as they fall to Venezuela, 5-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29753\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gc.com\/game-59c772e71cca00eb190000ac\/plays\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/USASoftball_Logo_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/USASoftball_Logo_150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/USASoftball_Logo_150-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for Game Changer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A valiant effort by Team USA fell just short in the Bronze Medal game as they fell to Venezuela, 5-4. \u00a0Trailing 4-2, they tied the game 4-4 on a 2 out single by Cameron Schiller. \u00a0Venezuela came right back to score the winning run in the bottom of the 6th.<\/p>\n<p>For the USA, the bronze medal was the first in international competition since 2003, some 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Castillo and Yusef Davis each had two hits in the losing effort, each a double and single.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela advances to the gold medal game against Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>At the last Pan American Championship, in 2015 at Toronto, Venezuela won the silver medal, while Argentina won bronze. \u00a0(Canada won the gold)(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A valiant effort by Team USA fell just short in the Bronze Medal game as they fell to Venezuela, 5-4. \u00a0Trailing 4-2, they tied the game 4-4 on a 2 out single by Cameron Schiller. \u00a0Venezuela came right back to score the winning run in the bottom of the 6th. For the USA, the bronze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29753,"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":[28,9,61,82],"tags":[814,125,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-31748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-international","9":"category-usa-softball","10":"category-wbsc","11":"tag-panamsoftbolrd2017","12":"tag-usasoftball","13":"tag-usmnt2017","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748","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=31748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31749,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions\/31749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}