{"id":470199,"date":"2026-09-20T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470199\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:58:14","slug":"san-francisco-firebells-vs-l-a-queens-wpbl-championship-discussion-thread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470199\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Firebells vs L.A. Queens \u2014 WPBL Championship Discussion thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Firebells didn\u2019t go down without a fight, rallying for a decisive 10-5 victory over the L.A. Queens on Saturday night to force Game 4 today in the best-of-five Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League Championship in Springfield, Ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In the 10-5 victory, Joely Leguizamon hit a solo homer as one of eight San Francisco players to drive in a run in a team effort win to narrow the Queens series lead to 2-1. Outside of helping her team win, Leguizamon has another reward coming for clearing the fence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kelsie Whitmore returned to her hot-hitting self, going 2-for-4 with an RBI, Skylar Kaplan went 3-for-4 with an RBI and Andr\u00e9anne Leblanc and Jua Park each added two hits and drove in a pair of runs apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jamie Mackay led the way for the Queens, going 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Game 5, if needed, will take place on Tuesday at 5 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":"The Firebells didn\u2019t go down without a fight, rallying for a decisive 10-5 victory over the L.A. Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[140364,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-470199","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\/470199","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=470199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}