{"id":38598,"date":"2021-07-26T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38598"},"modified":"2021-07-26T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:49:40","slug":"softball-mexico-down-australia-head-to-bronze-game-with-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38598","title":{"rendered":"Softball-Mexico down Australia, head to bronze game with Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/3LJB5BDPFNKPBDHZMVBVUX44DY.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Softball - Women - Opening Round - Mexico v Australia - Yokohama Baseball Stadium - Yokohama, Japan - July 26, 2021. Mexico players celebrate their win. REUTERS\/Jorge Silva\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/softball-us-stage-late-comeback-over-japan-tune-up-before-gold-match-2021-07-26\/\">From Reuters:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokyo 2020 Olympics &#8211; Softball &#8211; Women &#8211; Opening Round &#8211; Mexico v Australia &#8211; Yokohama Baseball Stadium &#8211; Yokohama, Japan &#8211; July 26, 2021. Stefania Aradillas of Mexico, Clare Warwick of Australia, and Leah Parry of Australia in action. REUTERS\/Jorge SilvaRead More<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Olympic newcomers Mexico overcame Australia 4-1 on Monday to reach the bronze-medal match-up with Canada, after the United States beat Japan 2-1 in a dress rehearsal for the gold-medal game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s offence surged for the second straight night as Victoria Vidales had two runs batted in on two of the team&#8217;s 11 hits, while pitcher Dallas Escobedo nearly tossed a second consecutive complete game shutout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will face Canada, who have competed at each of softball&#8217;s four Olympic appearances but never placed higher than fourth. Australia had won silver or bronze every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/softball-us-stage-late-comeback-over-japan-tune-up-before-gold-match-2021-07-26\/\">the complete story at Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forecast rain could delay the medal games on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters: Tokyo 2020 Olympics &#8211; Softball &#8211; Women &#8211; Opening Round &#8211; Mexico v Australia &#8211; Yokohama Baseball Stadium &#8211; Yokohama, Japan &#8211; July 26, 2021. Stefania Aradillas of Mexico, Clare Warwick of Australia, and Leah Parry of Australia in action. REUTERS\/Jorge SilvaRead More YOKOHAMA, Japan, July 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Olympic newcomers Mexico overcame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38523,"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":[4,5,28,38,1078,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-broadcasts","8":"category-canada","9":"category-featured","10":"category-latinamerica","11":"category-olympics","12":"category-women","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598","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=38598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38600,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598\/revisions\/38600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}