{"id":27901,"date":"2015-07-13T20:09:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T03:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27901"},"modified":"2015-07-13T20:09:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T03:09:41","slug":"usa-mens-national-team-cant-stop-canadas-eighth-inning-rally-in-3-2-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27901","title":{"rendered":"USA Men&#8217;s National Team can&#8217;t stop Canada&#8217;s eighth inning rally in 3-2 loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tight game was decided in the eighth inning as USA Men&#8217;s National Team fell to Canada 3-2 in eight innings on Monday at Ajax Pan Am Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Johnson was hot from the plate for USA Men&#8217;s National Team. Johnson went 1-4, drove in one and scored one run. He homered in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Cleary got the win for Canada. He allowed two runs over eight innings. He struck out 16, walked six and surrendered four hits.<\/p>\n<p>Canada was sparked by Jeff Ellsworth and Mathieu Roy, who teamed up for three hits and two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Muizelaar was the game&#8217;s losing pitcher. He lasted just 4 1\/3 innings, walked five, struck out four, and allowed one run.<\/p>\n<p>The game was scoreless until USA Men&#8217;s National Team broke the ice with one run in the fourth. USA Men&#8217;s National Team scored on a solo home run by Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Canada went up for good in the eighth, scoring one run on a single by Jason Hill.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;Powered by Narrative Science and GameChanger Media. Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.&#8221; Any reuse or republication of this story must include the preceding attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tight game was decided in the eighth inning as USA Men&#8217;s National Team fell to Canada 3-2 in eight innings on Monday at Ajax Pan Am Ballpark. Josh Johnson was hot from the plate for USA Men&#8217;s National Team. Johnson went 1-4, drove in one and scored one run. He homered in the fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3,5,28,9,61],"tags":[126,323,292],"class_list":{"0":"post-27901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-asa","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-international","10":"category-usa-softball","11":"tag-panams2015","12":"tag-panamsoftball","13":"tag-usamen2015","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901","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=27901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27902,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27901\/revisions\/27902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}