{"id":1321,"date":"2006-10-04T08:32:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2006-10-04T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T23:04:03","slug":"usa-tops-cuba-now-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"USA Tops Cuba, Now 2-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbolsonora.org\/panamericano06.htm\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/PanAm06_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(Click logo for official website)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usasoftball.com\/pressReleases\/getStory.asp?nid=1283\">From the USA Softball website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>USA beats Cuba 2-1 at Pan American Championships<\/strong><br \/>\n10\/3\/2006<\/p>\n<p>Hermosillo, Mexico&#8212;The USA Softball Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Team improved its record to 2-2 at the Pan American Softball Championships with a 2-1 win over Cuba in the nightcap on Monday. Paul Algar (Lexington, Ill.) was dominate in the circle allowing only one run on two hits while striking out nine in a complete game effort.<\/p>\n<p>Frank DeGroat (Ringwood, NJ) put the Red, White and Blue in the lead in the top of the second inning with a solo home run to lead off the inning. Chad Boom (Barnesville, Minn.) followed with a single but was left stranded when the next three batters struck out.<\/p>\n<p>With one out in the fourth inning DeGroat walked and looked to score on a double by Boom but was thrown out at home by a great throw from centerfield that halted the rally.<\/p>\n<p>It was Boom once again that got the offense going for the U.S. in the top of the seventh inning when he led off with a single and moved to second when Landy Rodriguez (West Haverstraw, NY) was hit by a pitch. A double by Sonny Perkins (St. Michaels, Ariz.) added an insurance run as Boom scored to give the U.S. a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba rallied in the bottom of the seventh inning as Roberto Echarte led off the inning with a walk, moved to second on a fielder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice and scored on a single by Juan Marti. With two runners on base and the lead cut to 2-1, Algar came up big by striking out Livan Zaedivan and getting Alexis Navarro to fly out to center to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>Boom led the U.S. offense going 3-for-3 while DeGroat and Perkins collected the only other hits for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>For complete coverage of the 2006 Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pan American Softball Championships including box scores, play-by-play and stats click here usasoftball.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click logo for official website) From the USA Softball website USA beats Cuba 2-1 at Pan American Championships 10\/3\/2006 Hermosillo, Mexico&#8212;The USA Softball Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Team improved its record to 2-2 at the Pan American Softball Championships with a 2-1 win over Cuba in the nightcap on Monday. Paul Algar (Lexington, Ill.) was dominate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}