{"id":20436,"date":"2013-03-09T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T18:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20436"},"modified":"2013-03-09T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T18:57:14","slug":"aussies-beat-argentina-at-softball-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20436","title":{"rendered":"Aussies beat Argentina at softball championships"},"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\/8404977\/Aussies-beat-Argentina-at-softball-champs\"><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>Australia will play Venezuela tomorrow for the right to meet New Zealand in the world softball championship final.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Folkard threw Australia&#8217;s second no-hitter of the day to beat Argentina 2-1 in nine innings at Albany tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Folkard struck out 17 batters, including three in the bottom of the eighth inning after he threw the ball past first base while fielding a bunt to allow Argentina&#8217;s only run.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Tanner batted in Tim Crome for Australia&#8217;s winning run in the top of the ninth and Folkard kept his nerve to shut the south Americans out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen two no-hitters back to back like that in a playoff,&#8221; said Australia&#8217;s veteran coach Bob Harrow, who watched Folkard follow the standard set by Andrew Kirkpatrick in the 4-0 win over Japan yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adam was in full control of that game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harrow also hailed Argentina&#8217;s pitchers Lucas Mata and Maximiliano Montero, who held Australia to two hits, in &#8220;a classic ball game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina&#8217;s tournament is over but Venezuela is now assured of becoming the first South American team to win a world championship medal.<\/p>\n<p>They play Australia at 10am today with the final at 1pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will play Venezuela tomorrow for the right to meet New Zealand in the world softball championship final. Adam Folkard threw Australia&#8217;s second no-hitter of the day to beat Argentina 2-1 in nine innings at Albany tonight. Folkard struck out 17 batters, including three in the bottom of the eighth inning after he threw the [&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":[12,38,35,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isf","8":"category-latinamerica","9":"category-oceania","10":"category-tournaments","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436","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=20436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20437,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436\/revisions\/20437"}],"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=20436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}