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Mets beat up the Nationals, and more USA Softball
The Mets
defeat the Washington Nationals by a score of 5-2, behind Livan Hernandez’s
pitching and Mets timely hitting over the Nationals.
Here are
the scoring innings for each team
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first, Mets score two runs. Angel Pagan singles. Luis Castillo sac bunts to
move Pagan to second; Castillo out. Daniel Murphy doubles and Pagan scores.
David Wright fouls out. Jeff Francoeur doubles, and Murphy scores. Jeremy Reed
grounds out to end the inning.
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second, Mets score three runs. Alex Cora singles. Brian Schneider grounds out,
as Cora goes to second base. Livan Hernandez grounds out. Angel Pagan singles,
Alex Cora scores, Pagan to second on wild throw. Luis Castillo singles; Pagan
scores and Castillo to second on throw. Daniel Murphy singles, brings home Luis
Castillo for the third run. David Wright lines out to center to end the frame.
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fourth, Adam Dunn singles. Dunn goes to second on Guzman’s groundout. Austin
Kearns singles, Dunn to third. Willie Harris pops out. Josh Bard singles to
bring home both Adam Dunn and Austin Kearns. Alberto Gonzalez grounds out.
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ninth, The outfielder swap for the Mets was well worth it, as Jeff Francoeur
homers to make it 6-2 Mets at Nationals Park. Ryan Church also homered for the
Braves as well that night. The Mets-Braves trade is working out for both teams.
Livan
Hernandez wins pitching seven innings, allowing five hits and two runs.
JD Martin
pitching for the Nationals loses the game pitching only four innings and giving
up five runs and eight hits.
The Braves beat
the San Francisco Giants by a score of 11 to 3. The Atlanta Braves are
on a offensive explosing as of late. Interestingly enough, it comes on
a start by Tommy Hanson. Chipper Jones and Garret Anderson also homered
for the Braves, off Jonathan Sanchez.
Here’s the link to the last nights game.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_07_20_nynmlb_wasmlb_1&mode=gameday
Mets are at it versus the Nationals tonight.
Here’s last night’s World Cup final results.
United States 3, Australia 1 (Jul 20, 2009 at Oklahoma City, OK)
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Australia……….. 000 100 0 - 1 4 0 (3-3)
United States……. 003 000 X - 3 7 1 (6-0)
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Pitchers: Australia – Smethurst, Justine; Murch, Aimee(4) and . United States – Abbott;
Osterman(6) and .
Win-Abbott(2-0) Save-Osterman(1) Loss-Smethurst, Justine(2-1) T-1:57 A-4737
HR AUSTRALI – Stacey Porter.
HR USANT – Lauren Lappin.
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 91, Winds:SSE19
The play by play for that game is here via a PDF File
http://www.usasoftball.com/uploads/2009world%20cup/champ%20pxp.pdf
You can actually see the game at ESPN2 tonight at 7pm eastern, 4pm Pacific time if you missed the game or if you want to watch the game again. You can watch it online at ESPN360.com, just look for the game “Australia vs USA World Cup of Softball”.
Team USA has two more torunaments, the Japan Cup and the Pan Am games at Venezuela, I’m not sure if they have TV coverage though. Monica Abbott and Cat Osterman were the best pitchers for Team USA, and Lauren Lappin, Caitlin Lowe and Natasha Watley all came in the clutch. Kaitlin Cochran and Ashley Hansen were also huge for Team USA. Jennie Finch who usually plays pitcher, also played first base. It is usually rare to see a pitcher play a position and vice-versa.
The following players have homered at least once in this tournament for Team USA
Jennie Finch
Natasha Watley
Ashley Hanson
Jenae Leles
Lauren Lappin
Alissa Haber
Andrea Duran
Monica Abbott is the only pitcher with two wins in the tournament, and Stacey Nelson, Katie Burkhart, Cat Osterman, and Jennie Finch each have one win as well. Cat Osterman has the only save in the tournament in the final game as she saved Monica Abbott’s title clinching win.
Here are your final standings.
USA 6-0 wins Gold
AUS 3-3 wins Silver
CAN 4-2 wins Bronze, lost to AUS in tiebreaker game.
JPN 3-3
NED 2-4
ITA 0-6
This was taken from http://www.usasoftball.com/events.asp?uid=4674
Other things in mind, the Rays and
the White Sox. Jeff Niemann is 8-4 versus Clayton Richard 3-3. Evan Longoria
and Carlos Pena have to wake up their bats against him. Jermaine Dye and Paul
Konerko can keep swining their sticks and the White Sox will beat up the Rays.
I predict a big day for the White Sox, but the Rays have other plans.This
should be the game of the week.
Oliver Perez versus John Lannan
play tonight. Ollie needs to play his A-Game and the Mets need to keep on
hitting against Lannan. Adam Dunn and Austin Kearns need to keep hitting and so
will Ryan Zimmerman. It’s too bad that the Nationals are a good team but their
record doesn’t reflect that. That’s all I’ll say for now.
Team USA wins World Cup in OKC vs Australia
Team USA finally wins the World Cup of Softball in Oklahoma City versus Team Australia by a final score of 3-1.
Monica Abbott was selected to pitch for Team USA versus Justine Smethurst of Team Australia.
Here are the scoring plays of the game.
Lauren Lappin set the tone with a solo home run in the game in the third inning. Ashley Hansen doubled.
Natasha Watley lined out for the first out.
Caitlin Lowe grounded out, moving Hansen to third base.
Alyssa Haber singles to bring home Hansen. Haber steals second base.
Kaitlin Cochran was intentionally walked. Andrea Duran singles, and Alyssa Haber scores, Cochran attempts to score at home as well but was tagged out.
The USA scores all three runs, and that’s all what they needed.
In the top of the fourth inning, Stacey Porter hits a solo home run off Monica Abbott, with one out.
That’s all the scoring Team Australia would have. Team USA would not allow any more scoring.
Cat Osterman comes in the sixth inning and saves the game. She pitches 1 and two-thirds innings with three strikeouts and one walk, to earn the save.
Monica Abbott pitches 5 and one-third innings giving up four hits, one earned run (on a Stacey Porter home run) and 11 strikeouts.Justine Smethurst settles for the loss pitching only three innings, charged with three runs, and gave up the home run to Lauren Lappin. She gave up five hits and struck out three.
Game time was 1:57, meaning 1 hour and 57 minutes long, game temperature was at 91 degrees.
Here’s the box score.
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 R H E
Australia 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 1 4 0
United States 0 0 3 0 0 0 x 3 7 1
USA finishes in first place undefeated while Australia finishes in second place.
This was taken from a game tracker courtesy of CBS College Sports.
Here’s the link
http://www.cstv.com/gametracker/launch/gt_wsoftbl.html?event=805870&school=usasb&sport=wsoftbl&camefrom=&startschool=&
If you watched the game, I hope you enjoyed it.
And these are the other scores played earlier in the day, but not on TV
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 3 1
Netherlands
1 0 1 5 0 1 X 8 9 2
Netherlands wins over Italy 8-1 Netherlands finishes fifth, and Italy finishes sixth.
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Japan 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 1 4 1
Canada 0 0 3 0 0 1 X 4 10 1
Canada beats Japan 4-1, Canada finishes 3rd, Japan finishes 4th
USA Softball goes 5-0 in World Cup in OKC, await opponent in Final game (Australia)
Team USA softball is 5 wins and no losses in the tournament, in which at least two of them ended early due to a mercy rule set up. The game ends in 3 innings with a lead of 20 runs or more, 15 runs or more after 4 innings, and 7 runs or more after 5 innings. This is done to avoid “running the score” I believe the same thing was used in the World Baseball classic earlier in the year.
Team USA uses this pitching rotation
1. Stacey Nelson.
2. Katie Burkhart
3. Monica Abbott
4. Cat Osterman
5. Jennie Finch.
Here are the records, taken from the World Cup of Softball site
USA is 5-0
Australia is 3-2
Canada is 3-2
Japan 3-2
Italy is 1-5
Netherlands is 0-5
The other teams the USA are facing are
Italy
Japan (the US lost to them in the gold medal game in the Olympics last year)
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
The United States won each of the five games in a round-robin tournament. (one team faces each of the other teams just once)
USA 7, NED 2
USA 12, ITA 0
USA 14, CAN 0 (four innings)
USA 6, Japan 1
USA 8, AUS 0 (five innings)
USA hit two grand slams in this tournament.
Here are the box scores taken from usasoftball.com.
United States 7, Netherlands 2 (Jul 16, 2009 at Oklahoma City, OK)
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Netherlands……… 002 000 0 - 2 2 0 (1-1)
United States……. 203 011 X - 7 13 2 (1-0)
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Pitchers: Netherlands – Van Dusschoten,Femke; Soumeru, Rebecca(3) and . United States – Nelson;
Finch(4) and .
Win-Finch(1-0) Loss-Van Dusschoten,Femke(0-1) T-2:01
HR USANT – Leles.
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 83, Winds:ENE14
United States 15, Canada 0 (Jul 18, 2009 at Oklahoma City, OK)
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Canada………….. 000 0 - 0 2 1 (2-1)
United States……. 509 1 – 15 12 0 (3-0)
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Pitchers: Canada – MacIntosh, Leah; Litster, Marissa(3) and Cumpstone, Erin; Dolan, Charlotte.
United States – Abbott and Lappin.
Win-Abbott(1-0) Loss-MacIntosh, Leah(0-1) T-1:22 A-0
HR USANT – Watley*; Leles; Duran.
Weather: Sunny, 82, Winds: SSE7
Litster faced 2 batters in the 4th.
*Natasha Watley hit a grand slam in the game.
United States 6, Japan 1 (Jul 18, 2009 at Oklahoma City, OK)
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Japan…………… 000 010 0 - 1 4 0 (1-2)
United States……. 000 132 X - 6 12 2 (4-0)
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Pitchers: Japan – Someya, Mika; Fujiwara, Makiko(3); Emoto, Naho(5); Yamane, Sayuri(5) and
Tanigawa, Maki; Ito. United States – Osterman and Lappin.
Win-Osterman(1-0) Loss-Emoto, Naho(0-2) T-2:17 A-6196
HR USANT – Haber; Duran.
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 85, Winds:ENE3
Game notes:
Lighting delay began at 8:50 p.m. CT. Play resumed at 9:43 p.m. CT. Second
base umpire Rob Veldkamp left the game at the beginning of the weather
delay due to injury.
United States 8, Australia 0 (Jul 19, 2009 at Oklahoma City, OK)
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United States……. 106 01 - 8 8 0 (5-0)
Australia……….. 000 00 - 0 2 1 (2-2)
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Pitchers: United States – Finch and . Australia – Murch, Aimee; Parnaby, Kaia(3);
McCallum, Jocelyn(5) and .
Win-Finch(2-0) Loss-Murch, Aimee(1-2) T-1:40
HR USANT – Haber; Hansen*.
Weather: Sunny, 85, Winds:WNW4
Game notes:
United States secures #1 seed for Monday night’s championship game (8 p.m.
CT, ESPN2).
*Ashley Hansen hit a grand slam in the game.
That’s it for now
Here are some game photos taken from the Associated Press. This was the game the USA defeated Australia 8-0.
Natasha Watley scores against Australia.
Lauren Lappin attempts a tag against Australia’s Chelsea Forkin, but she is safe.
Here are some extras outside the game.
Here’s Jennie Finch warming up.
Monica Abbott on her windup.
courtesy of zimbio.com
Here’s Katie Burkhart.
taken from Seattletimes.newsource.com
Here’ are my tips as of how the USA can beat Australia
1. Keep on hitting and running, get on base early and put pressure on the defense.
2. Whoever is pitching, pitch well, and don’t get behind the batters in the counts.
3. Continue on playing stellar defense.
4. The other pitchers must be ready when called upon in certain situations.
5. Remain focused and don’t let any distractions bother you.
That is all.
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