{"id":24940,"date":"2014-10-25T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T00:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24940"},"modified":"2014-10-30T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:05:33","slug":"usa-2-venezuela-1-in-9-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24940","title":{"rendered":"USA 2, Venezuela 1 in 9 innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Codi Warren, USA Softball<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22354\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gc.com\/game-543bfe45f10eaa00b67505e3\/plays\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Click logo for official box score by USA Softball&#039;s Greg Nydick\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for official box score by USA Softball&#8217;s Greg Nydick<\/figcaption><\/figure>Tony Mancha came up big again today.  After striking out 18 yesterday in a touch 2-1 loss to Mexico, he came on in the 8th in relief of Josh Johnson who threw 7 shutout innings, got a strikeout to quell a 2nd and 3rd rally for Venezuela after they tied the game at 1, then delivered the game winning hit, a line drive single to center in the 8th for the win.  A 1-2-3 ninth for Mancha sealed the win.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for more details and the official story from USA Softball.<\/p>\n<p>USA will face Cuba on Sunday in their third game. They are 1-1, while Canada is 2-0, and will face Venezuela on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Codi Warren, USA Softball Tony Mancha came up big again today. After striking out 18 yesterday in a touch 2-1 loss to Mexico, he came on in the 8th in relief of Josh Johnson who threw 7 shutout innings, got a strikeout to quell a 2nd and 3rd rally for Venezuela after they tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22354,"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":[3,9,12,38,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asa","8":"category-international","9":"category-isf","10":"category-latinamerica","11":"category-tournaments","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940","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=24940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24964,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940\/revisions\/24964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}