{"id":40246,"date":"2022-05-04T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=40246"},"modified":"2022-05-04T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:02:39","slug":"tinkers-to-evers-to-chance-circa-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=40246","title":{"rendered":"Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance, Circa 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(Shaw-to-Schiller-to-Ochoa)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Cap tip, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allen_matt\">Matt Allen, @USASoftball<\/a><\/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\">Show me a better play in softball &#8211; I\u2019ll wait\u2026?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USASoftball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USASoftball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/americassoftball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#americassoftball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JADiCRbM8J\">pic.twitter.com\/JADiCRbM8J<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matt Allen (@allen_matt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allen_matt\/status\/1520798300517060608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editor&#8217;s Note:  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the USA&#8217;s Zac Shaw flipping to Cam Schiller and over the Erick Ochoa at first base.  Which part of the play is the best? Also, yes.   The play occurred in crunch time, the USA&#8217;s Super Round Win over Cuba in the 2022 Pan American Championship, in a game that got the USA into the Bronze Medal Game and qualified for the 2022 WBSC World Cup in November\/December in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to the historical headline reference, it&#8217;s from the poem, &#8220;Baseball&#8217;s Sad Lexicon, by Franklin Adams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Tinker_to_Evers_to_Chance#cite_ref-1\">^\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_Pierce_Adams\">Adams, Franklin Pierce<\/a>\u00a0(1910-07-12), \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball%27s_Sad_Lexicon\">Baseball&#8217;s Sad Lexicon<\/a>\u201d, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Evening_Mail\">New York Evening Mail<\/a>:  These are the saddest of possible words:<br>\u201cTinker to Evers to Chance.\u201d<br>Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,<br>Tinker and Evers and Chance.<br>Ruthlessly pricking our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gonfalon\">gonfalon<\/a>\u00a0bubble,<br>Making a Giant hit into a double \u2014<br>Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:<br>\u201cTinker to Evers to Chance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA2022.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39918\" width=\"233\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA2022.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA2022-287x300.webp 287w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USA2022-768x802.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/3cb6efc2039accb2bb3032261\/images\/175d9eb9-aab1-05f0-92f1-f6acf0147abc.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Shaw-to-Schiller-to-Ochoa) Cap tip, Matt Allen, @USASoftball Editor&#8217;s Note: That&#8217;s the USA&#8217;s Zac Shaw flipping to Cam Schiller and over the Erick Ochoa at first base. Which part of the play is the best? Also, yes. The play occurred in crunch time, the USA&#8217;s Super Round Win over Cuba in the 2022 Pan American Championship, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39918,"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":[28,38,23,61,82],"tags":[1316,1315,1318,125,1233],"class_list":{"0":"post-40246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-latinamerica","9":"category-tournaments","10":"category-usa-softball","11":"category-wbsc","12":"tag-softballamericas","13":"tag-softballpanam","14":"tag-softballpanam2022","15":"tag-usasoftball","16":"tag-usasoftball2022","17":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246","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=40246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40258,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40246\/revisions\/40258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}