{"id":20345,"date":"2013-03-08T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20345"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:00:39","slug":"black-sox-to-play-venezuela-for-place-in-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20345","title":{"rendered":"Black Sox to play Venezuela for place in final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_19814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19814\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/8403012\/Black-Sox-to-play-Venezuela-for-place-in-final\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stuff-nz.gif\" alt=\"Click logo for original news story.\" width=\"170\" height=\"120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19814\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The New Zealand Black Sox will play Venezuela today for a place in the world softball championship final after the South Americans upset Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela &#8211; who dedicated their victory to their late president Hugo Chavez &#8211; beat Canada 3-1 in Auckland late last night.<\/p>\n<p>Catcher Rafael Flores hammered a two-run homer with Edwin Linares on base in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela manager Ramon Lopez said the victory was the greatest in the national men&#8217;s team&#8217;s history because it put Venezuela within striking distance of their first world championship medal.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Black Sox-Venezuela game at 5pm will advance directly to Sunday afternoon&#8217;s final. The loser will play off for bronze.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand beat world champions Australia 5-4 in the 10th inning after three tiebreaker phases.<\/p>\n<p>Australia play Japan in a sudden-death game today and Canada will clash with Argentina. Japan yesterday knocked out Samoa 4-2 and Argentina eliminated the United States, 9-2.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s playoffs draw is: 11.30am: Game 1: Japan v Australia. 2pm: Game 2: Argentina v Canada. 5pm: Game 3: New Zealand Black Sox v Venezuela. 7.30pm: Winner Game 1 v Winner Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>* Games televised on Sky Sport 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Black Sox will play Venezuela today for a place in the world softball championship final after the South Americans upset Canada. Venezuela &#8211; who dedicated their victory to their late president Hugo Chavez &#8211; beat Canada 3-1 in Auckland late last night. Catcher Rafael Flores hammered a two-run homer with Edwin Linares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6153,"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":[12,35,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isf","8":"category-oceania","9":"category-tournaments","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345","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=20345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20346,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20345\/revisions\/20346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}