{"id":41997,"date":"2023-09-05T18:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=41997"},"modified":"2023-09-06T05:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:02:37","slug":"venezuela-tops-canada-8-1-leaving-both-teams-1-1-at-wbsc-u-18-pan-am-mens-softball-championship-day-3-tues-sept-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=41997","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela tops Canada 8-1, leaving both teams 1-1 at WBSC U-18 Pan Am Men\u2019s Softball Championship (Day 3, Tues. Sept. 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Venezuela rebounded from an opening round loss to the USA Tuesday, with a convincing five-inning run rule victory over Canada.   They did so on the strength of two four run innings.  Venezuela took a 4-0 lead in the top of the second on four consecutive singles, combined with an error and a walk.  The hits came from <strong>M. Guiterrez, S. Hassell, J. Pereira, <\/strong>and<strong> J. Morales.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela added four more runs in the fourth inning, on two consecutive errors, followed by a single, then a third error in the inning.  Canadian reliever <strong>Sharl. Leclerc<\/strong> quieted the Venezuela bats with a pair of strikeouts, but a two run triple by <strong>M. Lagarde<\/strong> drove home two more runs.   <strong>Lagarde<\/strong> also doubled in the game, drove home two and scored a run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada committed six errors on the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada scored its lone run in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI double by <strong>D. Scott<\/strong>, but three consecutive strikeouts ended the scoring for Team Canada, who needed one more run to escape the run rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C. Pinto<\/strong> went the distance for Venezuela and the win, surrendering just three hits and striking out 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three pitchers shared the duties for Team Canada, with <strong>Nick Neid<\/strong> starting, and taking the loss, surrendering 6 hits in 2.1 innings and four runs, though only two were earned.  The other six runs scored by Venezuela were unearned.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament is a qualifier for the&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/events\/2023-u18-mens-softball-world-cup\/home\" target=\"_blank\">WBSC U-18 Men\u2019s Softball World Cup<\/a><\/strong>, set to take place in Hermosillo, Mexico, from 11 to 19 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela rebounded from an opening round loss to the USA Tuesday, with a convincing five-inning run rule victory over Canada. They did so on the strength of two four run innings. Venezuela took a 4-0 lead in the top of the second on four consecutive singles, combined with an error and a walk. The hits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41986,"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":[5,28,23,27],"tags":[193],"class_list":{"0":"post-41997","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":"category-youth","11":"tag-softballcanada","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41997","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=41997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42000,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41997\/revisions\/42000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}