{"id":4551,"date":"2015-05-18T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T02:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2015-05-18T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T02:38:37","slug":"01-birmingham-giants-battle-3rd-place-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=4551","title":{"rendered":"01 Birmingham Giants battle to 3rd place finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 01 Birmingham Giants battle their way to another top 3 finish Saturday in Oxford. After winning their first 2 tournaments, and 1 week removed from winning the organizations 200th game all time, the Giants 01 came up a little short in the semi final game, losing 7-4, after winning 4-1 and 8-1, raising their season record to 9-3.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fracis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4347\" src=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fracis.jpg\" alt=\"GIANT POLOGROUNDS\" width=\"165\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>In game 1 of pool play the Giants 01 took on Cherokee County. Sydney Chamness went the distance in the circle, scattering 2 hits for the win. Kennedy Jackson (1), Tori Layfield (1,2b) Skylar Street (1), Sydney Chamness (1), \u00a0and Francis Fowler (1,2b) all recorded hits and Allison Roberson drove in a run and Mollie Peoples scored the teams first run as the Giants rolled to an 8-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>In game 2 of pool play, the Giants faced off with Adrenaline 14u. Skylar Street pitched all \u00a04 innings, allowing 3 hits and 1 run, while striking out 6(tying club record for 3rd highest all time) for the win. At the plate Tori Layfield had 2 hits, including a triple, Sydney Chamness (1), Maci Harris (1), Skylar Street (1,3b), and Taylor Dawkins (1) all had hits to power the Giants offense in the 4-1 win.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3019\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cass-head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3019\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3019\" src=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cass-head.jpg\" alt=\"Cassi Williams\" width=\"165\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassi Williams<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Winning both pool play seeded the Giants first over all for the 3rd week in a row, but stranding 6 runners left the Giants on the short end of a 7-4 score. \u00a0Skylar Street pitched all 5 innings, the Giants defense allowed an unchareteristic 4 unearned runs, which became the undying of the Giants, ending their chase for 3 straight titles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hits from Cassi Williams (3b), Turner Cole (1), Francis Fowler (2b), and Skylar Street (1,2b) were not enough as the Giants fell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4556\" src=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lost in the chase for the \u00a0three-Pete was the 01 Giants winning the Organization 200th game all time. Congratulations to all the players (boys and girls) who contributed to the 212 all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 01 Birmingham Giants battle their way to another top 3 finish Saturday in Oxford. After winning their first 2 tournaments, and 1 week removed from winning the organizations 200th game all time, the Giants 01 came up a little short in the semi final game, losing 7-4, after winning 4-1 and 8-1, raising their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-softball","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}