{"id":346846,"date":"2026-09-14T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346846\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:52:10","slug":"l-a-queens-vs-new-york-heights-wpbl-playoff-discussion-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346846\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Queens vs. New York Heights \u2014\u00a0WPBL Playoff discussion thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tonight, the Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League will host its first win-or-go-home semifinal when the Los Angeles Queens and New York Heights face off at Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After the Queens took Game 1 10-3 on Sept. 10, the Heights put together a thrilling back-and-forth 9-7 win on Sept. 12 to force Game 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In Game 2, the Heights jumped out to a 7-2 lead after four innings thanks in part to a Denae Benites two-run homer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Queens rallied back to tie the game with three runs in the fifth and two runs in the sixth to knot the game at 7-7 going into the final frame. That\u2019s when New York\u2019s Claire O\u2019Sullivan and Keira Izumi hit back-to-back solo homers, which turned out to be enough to win the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The winner of Monday night\u2019s showdown will face the top-seeded San Francisco Firebells in the first-ever WPBL championship. The best-of-five game series will begin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight, the Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League will host its first win-or-go-home semifinal when the Los Angeles Queens and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[82909,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-346846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-colorado-rockies-discussion","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}