{"id":518,"date":"2008-07-24T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=518"},"modified":"2008-07-24T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T19:07:46","slug":"national-baseball-league-splitters-meet-up-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"National Baseball League: Splitters meet up once more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00c2\u00a015 double-headers played so far this season in the\u00c2\u00a0NBL South, all but\u00c2\u00a0a couple\u00c2\u00a0have been sweeps. Interestingly, the two splits both took place at Roundshaw, and both\u00c2\u00a0involved the Croydon Pirates and the Bracknell Blazers. This Sunday, these two team meet up again at Roundshaw (the games were originally scheduled to take place at Bracknell&#8217;s home ground, but the venue has now been switched).<\/p>\n<p>Barring a freak turn-around in form, neither side will make the National Finals, but the battle between the two teams has formed a sub-plot of the story of the league this season, with all four games up to this point having\u00c2\u00a0been close-fought contests that stayed alive till the\u00c2\u00a0final inning.<\/p>\n<p>North of the River Thames, the Richmond Flames will be trying their hardest to spoil the London Mets&#8217; thus-far perfect record, in a double-header at Finsbury Park.<\/p>\n<p>A <a title=\"recent article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbaseball.org\/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&amp;db_story=2619\" target=\"_blank\">recently published\u00c2\u00a0article<\/a> on the British Baseball Federation website provides an excellent run-down of the situation across the whole British baseball league with regard to qualification for the finals in all four tiers of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00c2\u00a015 double-headers played so far this season in the\u00c2\u00a0NBL South, all but\u00c2\u00a0a couple\u00c2\u00a0have been sweeps. Interestingly, the two splits both took place at Roundshaw, and both\u00c2\u00a0involved the Croydon Pirates and the Bracknell Blazers. This Sunday, these two team meet up again at Roundshaw (the games were originally scheduled to take place at Bracknell&#8217;s home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}