{"id":2610,"date":"2008-06-20T23:51:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T06:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2008-06-22T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T15:22:35","slug":"japan-4-usa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2610","title":{"rendered":"Japan 4, USA 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/admin.usasoftball.com\/folders.asp?uid=958\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/isf08\/usa.softball.120.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/skin\/jrfastpitchlogo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click logo for official tournament website)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The USA Junior men dropped their opening night game to the 2005 Silver medalist team from Japan.  Japan took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, and never surrendered the lead.  The USA tied the game at 1 with a run of their own in the bottom of the first inning, cutting a 3-1 lead to 3-2 with a run in the bottom of the fifth, but Japan added an insurance run in the 6th for the final 4-2 victory.   USA made the most of their three hits, but were outslugged by Japan, 8 hits to 3, while committing 2 errors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/results\/Game06Results.htm\"><strong>Click here for line score.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe USA Junior men will play their second game on Saturday at 1:30 pm against Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>usaisfjr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click logo for official tournament website) The USA Junior men dropped their opening night game to the 2005 Silver medalist team from Japan. Japan took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, and never surrendered the lead. The USA tied the game at 1 with a run of their own in the bottom of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610"}],"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=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}