{"id":115564,"date":"2017-09-02T03:21:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T07:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115564"},"modified":"2017-09-02T03:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T07:21:27","slug":"canada-drops-u18-baseball-world-cup-opener-7-6-in-extras-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/02\/canada-drops-u18-baseball-world-cup-opener-7-6-in-extras-to-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada drops U18 baseball World Cup opener 7-6 in extras to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115565\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/baseball-field-1563858_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115565\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/baseball-field-1563858_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"(Pexels photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/baseball-field-1563858_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/baseball-field-1563858_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/baseball-field-1563858_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tied 5-5 after nine innings, Taiwan scored two runs off reliever Harley Golelrt to go up 7-5. Intrnational rules start extra innings with runners on first and second. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THUNDER BAY, Ont. &#8212;\u00a0Canada\u00a0had the winning run in scoring position in the bottom of the 10th but couldn&#8217;t take advantage in a 7-6 loss to Taiwan on Friday night in the opener of the WBSC under-18 baseball World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Tied 5-5 after nine innings, Taiwan scored two runs off reliever Harley Gollert to go up 7-5. International rules start extra innings with runners on first and second.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Archer Brookman hit a leadoff single in the bottom of the 10th to score pinch runner March-Antoine Lebreux and put runners on the corners before Denzel Clarke walked to load the bases. But Taiwan&#8217;s Liu Chih-Jung made a game-saving play at shortstop, making a backhand stab on a Dondrae Bremner smash and firing home for the force out.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back strikeouts ended the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe faced a real good team tonight and came up short,\u201d said Canadian manager Greg Hamilton. \u201cThe important thing for us is to forget about this one as fast as possible and focus on tomorrow&#8217;s game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u00a0will face Nicaragua (0-1) at Port Arthur Stadium on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Keyes hit a two-run homer for the Canadian team, Brookman hit a solo shot and added an RBI single and Clarke hit a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THUNDER BAY, Ont. &#8212;\u00a0Canada\u00a0had the winning run in scoring position in the bottom of the 10th but couldn&#8217;t take advantage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":115565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,44],"tags":[22629],"class_list":["post-115564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","category-sports","tag-u18-baseball-world-cup","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}