{"id":19929,"date":"2017-06-18T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19929"},"modified":"2017-06-18T14:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T13:39:25","slug":"mets-and-mustangs-just-fall-short-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19929","title":{"rendered":"Mets and Mustangs just fall short in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The potential fantastic Friday for our two British representatives in Europe didn&#8217;t turn out the way we hoped, with both suffering defeats and therefore missing out on making their respective pool final.<\/p>\n<h2>London left rueing their Stockholm slip<\/h2>\n<p>London Mets knew they had a difficult task in facing Sant Boi in their last pool game, knowing they either needed a win or a close loss to get a chance to face them again in the final of their Federations Cup Qualifier Pool 3.<\/p>\n<p>A four-run first inning for the Spanish team immediately put the Mets on the back foot. A five-run third, followed by a seven-run fifth meant that Sant Boi ran out comfortable winners by a score of 16-1 in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Sant Boi went on to win the final on Saturday in a close encounter with Kaunas County B.C. by a score of 4-1. The Mets had beaten Kaunas in their opening fixture 12-4 to show that on another day London may have been able to run Sant Boi much closer than the 16-1 loss might suggest.<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s frustration probably will come from the 2-1 defeat to Stockholm in their second game as that narrow loss in an evenly-matched contest proved the difference between making the pool final and finishing third.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballstats.eu\/2017\/stockholm\/schedule.php\">Pool details on the CEB website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Southampton fight-back falls short<\/h2>\n<p>There was more British frustration in Pool 2 where the Southampton Mustangs put up an almighty fight against the hometown Beograd in Serbia in what was effectively a semi-final, with the winner heading on to face Diving Ducks W.Neustadt.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton looked out of it heading into the top of the eighth inning, trailing 11-4, only to put up a six-spot to bring them within one run. A clean top of the ninth meant that the Mustangs had the chance to get a walk-off victory, but a three-up, three-down inning saw Southampton out of the competition despite battling to the end.<\/p>\n<p>As in Pool 3, the Pool 2 favourites prevailed in the final as Diving Ducks beat Beograd 9-3.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballstats.eu\/2017\/belgrade\/schedule.php\">Pool details on the CEB website<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Even losing, we are a family. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lafamilia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lafamilia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SvkTDlog3y\">pic.twitter.com\/SvkTDlog3y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Southampton Mustangs (@SotonMustangs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SotonMustangs\/status\/876077298230980609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Concentrate on the league<\/h2>\n<p>Despite missing out on their pool finals, it was great to see British teams continuing to take part in European competitions once again.<\/p>\n<p>Their attention will now return to the domestic season next Sunday (25th).<\/p>\n<p>The London Mets host a double-header against Essex Arrows at Finsbury Park, whilst Southampton welcome the Brighton Jets to Mustangs Field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential fantastic Friday for our two British representatives in Europe didn&#8217;t turn out the way we hoped, with both suffering defeats and therefore missing out on making their respective pool final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556,567,418],"class_list":["post-19929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2","tag-british-baseball","tag-london-mets","tag-southampton-mustangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19934,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19929\/revisions\/19934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}