{"id":87451,"date":"2017-05-08T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=87451"},"modified":"2017-05-08T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:04:08","slug":"vw-baseball-falls-to-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/05\/08\/vw-baseball-falls-to-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"VW baseball team falls to Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DEFIANCE \u2013 A pair of errors in the eighth inning proved to be the difference, in Saturday\u2019s 1-0 Defiance win over Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>The game was scheduled to be played at Smiley Park, but Thursday and Friday\u2019s rains rendered the field unplayable, forcing the contest to be shifted to Defiance. Despite the change of venue, Van Wert was listed as the home team.<\/p>\n<p>After a fielder\u2019s choice, an error and a walk in the top of the eighth inning, Defiance\u2019s Levi Robarge scored from third on a second error.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars had a chance to win in the seventh. Caleb Fetzer walked to open the bottom of the inning, and two batters later, Hayden Maples singled and advanced Fetzer to second. However, Defiance\u2019s Braden Frederick was able to retire the final two batters to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick allowed just two hits and two walks, while striking out eight in eight innings. Van Wert\u2019s Lawson Blackmore also went the distance, allowing two hits, walking three and striking out 11.<\/p>\n<p>Defiance improved to 14-7 (6-2 Western Buckeye League), while Van Wert dropped to 15-7 (3-6 WBL).<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars will host Delphos St. John\u2019s today, then will open tournament play Wednesday at home against Bryan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports DEFIANCE \u2013 A pair of errors in the eighth inning proved to be the difference, in Saturday\u2019s 1-0 Defiance win over Van Wert. The game was scheduled to be played at Smiley Park, but Thursday and Friday\u2019s rains rendered the field unplayable, forcing the contest to be shifted to Defiance. Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 08:09:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}