{"id":39553,"date":"2021-12-08T13:32:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=39553"},"modified":"2021-12-08T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T21:32:47","slug":"usa-u18-wnt-defeats-puerto-rico-in-extra-innings-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=39553","title":{"rendered":"USA U18 WNT Defeats Puerto Rico in Extra Innings, 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note: <\/strong>  At the Jr Pan Ams in Columbia a week ago, Team USA scored 71 runs while surrendering none.    Mexico took silver, and Puerto Rico bronze at that tournament.  This week, Team USA has had their hands full the last two days.   Yesterday, Mexico cut  the USA lead to 4-3, before falling, 5-3.  Today, Puerto Rico (who beat Mexico here in Lima), took the Red White and Blue into extra innings with score tied 0-0.  Team USA, the visitors, won out, scoring the international tie breaking runner with a pair of sacrifice fly balls.   Chinese Tapei is the only other unbeaten team in this tournament, setting up a clash of the titans in round robin play on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?????? USA wins in extras!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/U18SoftballWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#U18SoftballWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sTlXdHtSNb\">pic.twitter.com\/sTlXdHtSNb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WBSC #WorldSoftballDay ? (@WBSCsoftball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBSCsoftball\/status\/1468685114804682752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: At the Jr Pan Ams in Columbia a week ago, Team USA scored 71 runs while surrendering none. Mexico took silver, and Puerto Rico bronze at that tournament. This week, Team USA has had their hands full the last two days. Yesterday, Mexico cut the USA lead to 4-3, before falling, 5-3. Today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39473,"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":[28,82,26,27],"tags":[1211,125,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-39553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-wbsc","9":"category-women","10":"category-youth","11":"tag-u18softballwc","12":"tag-usasoftball","13":"tag-wbsc","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553","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=39553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39554,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553\/revisions\/39554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}