The GIST: The inaugural Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) championship will come down to a winner-take-all Game 5 after the No. 1 seed San Francisco Firebells roared back with two weekend wins over the LA Queens. Another chance to see the game\u2019s best in action? Say less.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd25 Firebells flip the script with offensive explosion: After LA put up 18 runs in Games 1 and 2, San Francisco brought the firepower while facing elimination \u2014 the Firebells scored a whopping 27 runs in Games 3 and 4. And it was a full-team effort with the bottom of the order contributing six of yesterday\u2019s 17 runs.<\/p>\n
Now, it all comes down to tomorrow\u2019s 7 p.m. ET Game 5, where fans should expect another high-scoring affair. Both teams are ultra familiar with each other\u2019s pitching staffs at this point in the series, a surefire recipe for runs.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc40 What\u2019s next for the WPBL after tumultuous Year 1?: Tomorrow\u2019s trophy presentation marks the end of an up-and-down debut. The WPBL brought pro women\u2019s baseball back after decades, but questions remain about the league\u2019s finances<\/a>, communication<\/a>, broadcast strategy, and more.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a classic women \u2019s sports conundrum: How do you balance the promise of opportunity with the knowledge that players, fans, and the game itself deserve more than what can realistically be offered early on?We\u2019ll dive deeper on the topic in Thursday\u2019s members-only The GIST Plus newsletter (join the community here<\/a>). In the meantime, soak up every pitch and enjoy history in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GIST: The inaugural Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) championship will come down to a winner-take-all Game 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-352124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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\/352124","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=352124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}