{"id":1788,"date":"2007-06-23T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T00:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2007-06-24T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T18:21:32","slug":"usa-captures-top-seed-entering-the-playoffs-at-the-isfmen%e2%80%99s-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"USA captures top seed entering the playoffs at the ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From USA Softball via<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsfastball.com\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/als.fastball.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRAGUE, CZ &#8212; Despite losing to Venezuela, 6-5, in its last game<br \/>\nin theround robin, the USA Men&#8217;s National Team has earned the<br \/>\nNo. 1 seed entering theplayoffs at the ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The USA, Japan and Venezuela all finished with 7-1 records in<br \/>\ntheround-robin, but the USA had the fewest runs scored against<br \/>\nthem (7) while Japanhad nine and Venezuela 12.<\/p>\n<p>DeMo EHS of the Netherlandsearned the fourth and final spot in<br \/>\nthe playoffs with a 5-3 record and isscheduled to play Venezuela on<br \/>\nSaturday in the opening round while the USAfaces off with Japanat<br \/>\n1 p.m. CST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan defeated Venezuela 7-5 earlier today tocomplete its round-robin<br \/>\nplay. The Page playoffs will conclude on Sunday (June24th).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From USA Softball via PRAGUE, CZ &#8212; Despite losing to Venezuela, 6-5, in its last game in theround robin, the USA Men&#8217;s National Team has earned the No. 1 seed entering theplayoffs at the ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Cup. The USA, Japan and Venezuela all finished with 7-1 records in theround-robin, but the USA had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788"}],"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=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}