{"id":433255,"date":"2026-08-14T23:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433255\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:54:17","slug":"l-a-queens-vs-san-francisco-firebells-wpbl-discussion-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433255\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Queens vs. San Francisco Firebells \u2014\u00a0WPBL discussion thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While it\u2019s still early in the season, the winner of tonight\u2019s showdown between the Queens (3-2) and Firebells (3-2) will become the first league four-game winner and immediately move to the top of the WPBL standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tonight\u2019s game marks the fourth straight contest between the California squads. San Francisco has won two of the three games, including Wednesday\u2019s matchup 8-2. In that game, WPBL No. 1 draft pick Kelsie Whitmore hit three home runs and drove in six of the team\u2019s eight runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Queens jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Wednesday night after Maggie Fox hit an RBI single and Jamie Mackay plated Fox on a double. Three Firebell pitchers combined to pitch six scoreless innings after the opening frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After starting the season 3-0, Los Angeles will now look to snap its two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">First Pitch: 5:30 p.m. MDT<\/p>\n<p>Fewer adsCreate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplerow.com\/feed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">community posts<\/a>Comment on articles, community postsRec comments, community postsNew, improved notifications system!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While it\u2019s still early in the season, the winner of tonight\u2019s showdown between the Queens (3-2) and Firebells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[140364,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-433255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-colorado-rockies-discussion","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}