{"id":348734,"date":"2026-09-16T22:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:40:55","slug":"l-a-queens-vs-san-francisco-firebells-wpbl-championship-discussion-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348734\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Queens vs. San Francisco Firebells \u2014\u00a0WPBL Championship discussion thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The inaugural season of the Women\u2019s Professional Baseball League has arrived at the championship series: The No. 3 Los Angeles Queens vs. the No. 1 San Francisco Firebells. Game 1 of the best-of-five series takes place tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe WPBL\u2019s Championship Series represents a monumental milestone for women\u2019s professional baseball,\u201d said WPBL commissioner Justine Seigal said in a press release. \u201cThe Firebells and the Queens have shown incredible skill, resilience, and sportsmanship all season. Fans are in for an unforgettable series as these two incredible teams compete for the championship trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Firebells swept the Boston Hunters 2-0 in their semifinals, which concluded on Sept. 11, while the Queens squeaked out a 15-11 Game 3 victory over the New York Heights on Monday. San Francisco won the regular-season series against L.A. 3-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s the schedule for the championship series:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For fans of \u201cA League of Our Own,\u201d actress Megan Cavanagh, who played Marla Houch in the 1992 classic film, will be attending Game 1. WPBL will be hosting a FanFest before the game to kick off the first title series in style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The inaugural season of the Women\u2019s Professional Baseball League has arrived at the championship series: The No. 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[82909,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-348734","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\/348734","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=348734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}