{"id":511,"date":"2005-09-01T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T17:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=511"},"modified":"2005-09-01T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T00:31:48","slug":"rounders-win-play-in-game-in-6-5-nail-biter-at-asa-c-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Rounders Win “Play-in” Game in 6-5 Nail Biter at ASA “C” Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The El Segundo Rounders won the “play-in” game in the first game of the 65 team ASA “C” National Tournament at Louis Park in Stockton, CA, 6-5 over Twin Pines, PA. The Rounders took a 1-0 lead in the third on a solo home run to left field by Mark Villalobos.<\/strong> The Rounders’ Mitch Mendenhall threw shutout ball into the 5th when Twin Pines rallied to tie the game at 1. Gerald Pyle came on in relief and escaped a two-on, one out jam on a spectacular double play by Michael “Spanky” Thomas<\/strong>, who grabbed a hard bouncer up the middle, stepped on second and threw to first in mid-air. First baseman Linnell Culver did the splits to grab the back end of the double play. <\/p>\n

The Rounders’ Tommy Morton tripled<\/strong> off the top of the centerfield fence in the 4th, to drive in one, but Twin Pines came back with two to take a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the 5th. In the 6th, it was Morton again, hitting a towering three run homer over the center field fence <\/strong>with runners at second and third and two outs. Morton drove in 4 of the Rounders 6 runs on the day. Gerald Pyle followed with an RBI single up the middle to run the score to 6-3. After a hit batter and a walk, a double down the left field line cut the lead to 6-5 before the Rounders escaped with the win. Eric Geierman was 2 for 2 with two walks, reaching base all four times.<\/p>\n

They advanced to the “regular” part of the 64 team tournament bracket and will face Italian Athletic Club at 12:00 noon today.<\/p>\n

To read comments from readers, or post one of your own, click the little “comments” link just below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The El Segundo Rounders won the “play-in” game in the first game of the 65 team ASA “C” National Tournament at Louis Park in Stockton, CA, 6-5 over Twin Pines, PA. The Rounders took a 1-0 lead in the third on a solo home run to left field by Mark Villalobos. The Rounders’ Mitch Mendenhall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}