{"id":20168,"date":"2013-03-05T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20168"},"modified":"2013-03-05T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:36:14","slug":"hot-hitting-and-solid-pitching-lead-usa-over-venezuela-in-isc-world-softball-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20168","title":{"rendered":"Hot hitting and solid pitching lead USA over Venezuela in ISF World Softball Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/josh.johnson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/josh.johnson.jpg\" alt=\"josh.johnson\" width=\"216\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20169\" \/><\/a><strong><em>By Bob Otto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Josh Johnson is one pitcher who can help himself with the bat.<\/p>\n<p>AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND \u2013 In today\u2019s fastpitch game most managers use the designated hitter, choosing to sit their pitchers, not wanting to risk injury or tiredness. Or they just plain can\u2019t hit.<\/p>\n<p>But not USA manager Pete Turner. Not when he\u2019s got a pitcher who can hit a softball like Josh Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Against Venezuela in day six of the ISF World Championship, Johnson started in the circle and he batted number four in the batting order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=8413\">Click here to continue reading the original story at Otto-in-Focus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Otto Josh Johnson is one pitcher who can help himself with the bat. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND \u2013 In today\u2019s fastpitch game most managers use the designated hitter, choosing to sit their pitchers, not wanting to risk injury or tiredness. Or they just plain can\u2019t hit. But not USA manager Pete Turner. Not when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20169,"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":[3,12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asa","8":"category-isf","9":"category-tournaments","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168","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=20168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20172,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168\/revisions\/20172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}