{"id":18980,"date":"2012-11-07T18:41:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18980"},"modified":"2012-11-07T18:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:41:28","slug":"australia-routs-usa-to-finish-pool-play-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18980","title":{"rendered":"Australia routs USA to finish pool play unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/AUS-helmets-new-2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/AUS-helmets-new-2012-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AUS helmets new 2012\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-18619\" \/><\/a>Team Australia showed why they are four-time defending gold medal champions Wednesday night with a 12-1 rout of previously unbeaten Team USA.  The game was 6-1 through 6, with the Aussies adding a 6 spot in the final frame.  <\/p>\n<p>Team USA could muster only one hit through 6, finishing the game with two on the night, with lefty Nathan Dickinson going the distance, striking out 10.  The USA&#8217;s lone run came in the fifth, a product of Australia&#8217;s two errors.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussies finished with 13 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Australia won the top spot and seeding for Pool A with a perfect 6-0 record, while the USA finished second in the pool, with a 5-1 record, which included a win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand, for their part, gave the Aussies their toughest match in pool play, falling in extra innings, but leading at one point, 5-2.  In 2008, the only loss suffered by the Aussies was to New Zealand, during pool play.  <\/p>\n<p>Two of the thirteen teams finished with unblemished records.  Australia in Pool A and host Argentina in Pool B.  <\/p>\n<p>Two of the thirteen teams finished with only one loss, USA in Pool A (falling to Australia) and Japan in Pool B (falling to Argentina)<\/p>\n<p>Two of the thirteen teams finished with two losses, New Zealand in Pool A (falling to Australia and USA) and<br \/>\nCanada (falling to Argentina and Japan).<\/p>\n<p>The pool play round, which spanned seven days has now come to a conclusion, with the top four teams in each of the two pools advancing to the playoff round.  Click here for the first round schedule of playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Australia showed why they are four-time defending gold medal champions Wednesday night with a 12-1 rout of previously unbeaten Team USA. The game was 6-1 through 6, with the Aussies adding a 6 spot in the final frame. Team USA could muster only one hit through 6, finishing the game with two on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,38,35,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-isf","9":"category-latinamerica","10":"category-oceania","11":"category-tournaments","12":"category-youth","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18982,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions\/18982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}