{"id":4554,"date":"2010-08-19T20:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T03:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2010-08-19T20:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T03:38:52","slug":"kitchener-in-winners-bracket-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4554","title":{"rendered":"Kitchener in Winner&#8217;s Bracket Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time defending champions, the Kitchener Rivershark Twins outlasted Chicago New York in 11 innings, for a 6-5 win, in one of two winner&#8217;s bracket semi-finals,  scoring in walk off fashion on a two-out smash to third by Blair Ezekiel, cashing in the game winning run. <\/p>\n<p>The game lasted 4 hours, pushing the 9pm Jarvis Travelers v. NY Gremlins nightcap back to an 11:30pm start time.  Grant Patterson picked up the win in relief of Donnie Scott, while Jeremy Manley went the distance for Chicago New York.  Kitcher overcame a 4 run sixth inning by Chicago New York, which included a three run homer by Frankie Perez that gave Chicago New York a short lived 5-2 lead.  Kitchener scored three of their own in the bottom of the 6th inning, extending the game to 11 innings before Ezekiel&#8217;s game winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time defending champions, the Kitchener Rivershark Twins outlasted Chicago New York in 11 innings, for a 6-5 win, in one of two winner&#8217;s bracket semi-finals, scoring in walk off fashion on a two-out smash to third by Blair Ezekiel, cashing in the game winning run. The game lasted 4 hours, pushing the 9pm Jarvis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554"}],"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=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}