{"id":680,"date":"2006-10-03T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=680"},"modified":"2006-10-03T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T19:47:31","slug":"youth-meets-experience-in-kitchener-fastball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Youth Meets Experience in Kitchener Fastball League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Slammin Sammy Forbes&#8221; Hits Game Winning HR for the Vets in Game 2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Kitchener, On] &#8211; The Championship Series of the Kitchener Fastball League is now well  underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws ( 3 times defending Champions) are pitted against the Waterloo Classics, in a battle of the young vs the aging.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix prevailed in cold, windy opener with a 5-0 victory, in which Sean Geehan got the win, and Don Stebbings took the loss. <\/p>\n<p>In game two, with great weather last night, the Classics got back into the series with a close 5-4 victory over the never say die Outlaws. The Classics got on board quickly with 3 runs in the<br \/>\nfirst, and another in the 2nd inning, courtesy of a 3 run shot by Classics Catcher Ben Blackwell. <\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix got back into the game with some timely hitting, included a homerun by Sean Geehan, and tied the game at 4-4 in the 4th inning. Both teams went down 3 up and 3 down in the 5th. In the bottom of the 6th Sam Forbes hit an opposite field home run to put the Classics up 5-4. The Phoenix didn&#8217;t threaten with any baserunners in the 7th. Winning Pitcher was Jim Schnarr, while Mel Ross took the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 goes Wednesday Night at Budd Park at 7:00Pm<\/p>\n<p>Rick Boyd<br \/>\nrboyd (at) guillevin.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Slammin Sammy Forbes&#8221; Hits Game Winning HR for the Vets in Game 2 [Kitchener, On] &#8211; The Championship Series of the Kitchener Fastball League is now well underway. The Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws ( 3 times defending Champions) are pitted against the Waterloo Classics, in a battle of the young vs the aging. Phoenix prevailed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}