{"id":41919,"date":"2023-09-04T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=41919"},"modified":"2023-09-04T07:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:28:59","slug":"toronto-batmen-capture-2023-canadians-title-on-15th-inning-inside-the-park-home-run-by-mason-mckay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=41919","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Batmen Capture 2023 Canadians Title on 15th Inning Inside the Park Home Run by Mason McKay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Toronto&#8217;s Ty Sebastian Goes the Distance, and Then Some for the 15 inning Win<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Described as &#8220;<strong>A Game for the Ages<\/strong>&#8220;, the Toronto Batmen and Galway Hitmen battled for 15 innings in a rain-delayed game, with 21 year old <strong>Mason McKay <\/strong>coming up big, with a walk-off inside the park home run in the bottom of the 15th inning to win the game, and with it, the Sr. Canadian Championship for the <strong>Toronto Batmen<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ty Sebastian<\/strong> went the distance in the game for Toronto, allowing five hits and zero runs over 15 innings and striking out 22 while walking two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sean Cleary<\/strong>, the ace of the decade in the Sr. Canadians Championship was the tough luck loser, throwing 14 innings, striking out 24 and allowing just 5 hits over the 192 pitch game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Galway Hitmen<\/strong> won the Sr. Canadian Championship in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2022 and finished 2nd in 2017.  The <strong>Toronto Batmen<\/strong> are now the Defending Champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ty Sebastian<\/strong> was named the Playoff Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Toronto Batmen&#8217;s Title Run<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Friday, Sept 1 &#8211; 6-5 Win over Bear Creek Express; WP-Tyler Randerson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Friday, Sept 1 &#8211; 7-0 Win Over NL Physio &amp; Co; WP-Ty Sebastian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday, Sept 2 &#8211; 7-0 Win over ON1 Niagara Stompers; WP-Ty Sebastian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday, Sept 2, 3-0 Win over Bear Creek Express; WP-Ty Sebastian<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, Sept 3, 1-0 Win over Defending Champions Galway Hitmen, 15 innings; WP-Ty Sebastian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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\">Galway drop 1-0 15 inning loss to the Toronto Batmen on a inside the park homer. <br><br>Sean Cleary threw 14 innings, 192 pitches, striking out 24 batters and allowing 5 hits. <br><br>Shane Boland had 2 hits in the loss. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zR3PbpqTtj\">pic.twitter.com\/zR3PbpqTtj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Galway Hitmen (@GalwayHitmen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GalwayHitmen\/status\/1698599498908397667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s Ty Sebastian Goes the Distance, and Then Some for the 15 inning Win Described as &#8220;A Game for the Ages&#8220;, the Toronto Batmen and Galway Hitmen battled for 15 innings in a rain-delayed game, with 21 year old Mason McKay coming up big, with a walk-off inside the park home run in the bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41805,"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":[5,28,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-tournaments","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919","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=41919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41925,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions\/41925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}