{"id":38606,"date":"2021-07-26T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38606"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:35:05","slug":"38606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38606","title":{"rendered":"Canada heads into softball bronze-medal game on high note after mercy-rule win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6117135.1627283867!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/gilbert-jen-072621.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Canada&#8217;s Jen Gilbert celebrates with teammates after hitting a solo home run against Italy in the second inning of an 8-1 victory at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday in Yokohama.&nbsp;(Yuichi Masuda\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/olympics\/summer\/softball\/olympics-canada-italy-softball-recap-1.6117088\">From CBC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian women&#8217;s softball team will head into the bronze-medal game on a high note following its 8-1, six-inning mercy-rule victory over Italy on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third-ranked Canada will face  No. 5 Mexico  for Olympic bronze&nbsp;on Tuesday at midnight ET. The U.S., which beat Japan 2-1 earlier&nbsp;Monday, will meet the hosts in a rematch for gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada, already assured of playing for bronze, rested pitchers Sara Groenewegen and Jenna Caira, who had each appeared in every game prior to Monday. Outfielder Victoria Hayward was moved to designated player for the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blowout victory at Yokohama Baseball Stadium assured the entire 15-player roster got an extra inning of rest, too. The sport&#8217;s rules state\u00a0if any team leads by seven at the conclusion of an inning, the game is over\u00a0\u2014 that&#8217;s what the Canadians managed after six against Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click CBC link above for complete story and more photos.   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/1918912067896\">If you missed the live broadcast on Sunday, catch the archived broadcast here, courtesy of CBC<\/a>  (VPN needed to watch in US)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC The Canadian women&#8217;s softball team will head into the bronze-medal game on a high note following its 8-1, six-inning mercy-rule victory over Italy on Monday. Third-ranked Canada will face No. 5 Mexico for Olympic bronze&nbsp;on Tuesday at midnight ET. The U.S., which beat Japan 2-1 earlier&nbsp;Monday, will meet the hosts in a rematch [&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":[5,28,1078,26],"tags":[1071,193,1065,1088,1079],"class_list":{"0":"post-38606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-olympics","10":"category-women","11":"tag-olympics2021","12":"tag-softballcanada","13":"tag-softballcanada2021","14":"tag-tokyo2020","15":"tag-tokyo2021","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606","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=38606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38615,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions\/38615"}],"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=38606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}