{"id":3600,"date":"2009-08-19T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2009-08-19T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T05:27:03","slug":"pinocchio-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"Pinocchio on Fire !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Somebody call Geppetto ! Pinocchio is on fire !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California A&#8217;s second baseman Steve Pinocchio was on fire Tuesday in Moline, Illinois, in the A&#8217;s game against Dolan &#038; Murphy of Illinois.  Steve went 4 for 4, including two home runs, scored three and drove in four, to lead his team to a 10-2 victory.  <\/p>\n<p>Todd Budke and Dave Kimura banged out three hits, while Marcus Tan and Eddie Martin each added 2 in the 15 hit assault.   Martin had two hits in the prior game and is swinging a hot bat for the A&#8217;s.   California pitchers Dave Drotzmann and Sebastian Gervesutti combined on a 4 hitter.<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s evened their record at 2-2 after dropping their first two, both tough losses, 5-4 to Midland, Michigan and 4-2 to the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Salinas, California squad will now get a rematch against Midland Michigan, the team that sent the A&#8217;s to the loser&#8217;s bracket, rallying for 4 runs in the 7th inning to beat the A&#8217;s in their first game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\/uploads\/File\/2009%20ISC%20Files\/37.htm\"><strong>Click here for the box score and play-by-play.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody call Geppetto ! Pinocchio is on fire ! California A&#8217;s second baseman Steve Pinocchio was on fire Tuesday in Moline, Illinois, in the A&#8217;s game against Dolan &#038; Murphy of Illinois. Steve went 4 for 4, including two home runs, scored three and drove in four, to lead his team to a 10-2 victory. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,18,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600"}],"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=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}