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What a catch!

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Florio, her throw to second,
not gonna be in time-

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And kind of a hard-hit ground ball.
Dive and stop at short, Perez.

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At the plate, the throw--

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Sato recovers at first base--

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Side, the throw! Almost got her.

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Now going the other way in right,
carried and gone!

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There’s the hit we were waiting for,
Kelsie Whitmore, a 3-1 shot--

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Four exclamation points tonight for USA.

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They are dancing in the batter’s box,

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waiting for Kelsie to get home
and celebrate with her.

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And what else can
you say at this point?

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You think back to Day One of
this tournament,

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the United States nearly
let it slip away...

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MORE FIRE, MORE FIRE

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So today we’re going to do
some live at-bats.

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Group two will go up to the cage
and start getting some swings in.

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Group three will be on
the base paths.

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Hitters, we’re going five pitches,

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or if you get a hit
before that, you’re out.

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Good job, ladies. Let’s get it!

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My goal for this Women’s
World Cup is to prove

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that we, again, have the best
baseball program in the world.

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It’s been very intentional the
way we’ve approached it.

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And we wanna showcase
that on the world stage.

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The World Cup is the biggest
stage for women’s baseball

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around the world.
For this year’s World Cup,

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the process started in 2022

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with the continental qualifiers
for the 25 nations around the world

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that have women’s teams.

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Twelve teams emerged to play
in the World Cup group stage.

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Hey, right at her!

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All these women that are
really pushing the envelope

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in the game of baseball,
they’re really good at their sport,

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they’re incredible
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and I want them to embrace that.

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They’re each individually wolves, but
the strength of the wolf is a pack.

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So they need to understand
that they’re not up-to-bat alone,

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that they’re not on the mound alone,

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that they have the
support of their teammates

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in this attempt to be
the best in the world.

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Good job. Good job. Get water.

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Chill for a second.
We’ll go into team defense.

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And swing and misses at the
fastball from Kelsie Whitmore.

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Kelsie Whitmore,
the first woman to appear

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in a starting lineup in
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making history there in US.

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The prominent player for
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at the 2018 Women’s World Cup,
the last Women’s World Cup.

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Part of why Kelsie Whitmore was named

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USA Baseball’s “Sportswoman
of the Year” last year.

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And Whitmore is the only
woman in the US being paid

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to play on a men’s
professional baseball team.

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Well, I’m getting older too

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So, take this love and take it down

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Yeah, and if you climb a mountain,
turn around

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Yeah, baseball was definitely
my first love, growing up.

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Always has been, it always will be.

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We were always inside the house.

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If it was raining,
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and we’d be playing whiffle ball.

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The railing of the stairs
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at the time,
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And so we would look at the
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so we used it as our Green Monster.

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And we would just-
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to always put the picture frames down

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because the ball would
always knock ‘em over

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and my mom’d get so mad at us.

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Every single day she’d
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So we’d go out and
throw and I’m all for that.

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Eventually my dad
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“So, Kelsie, you wanna
play baseball in a league?”

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”And, like with other players?”

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I was like, “Well,
do I have to wear my hair up?”

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And I said, “You don’t have
to have your hair in a ponytail.”

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”You can have it any
way you want to.”

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And she goes,
“Well, then, I wanna go play baseball.”

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So-- And the rest is history.
She never looked back.

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So I guess at a young age, I’ve
always kind of just wanted to be me.

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Ayami Sato on the mound,
the greatest women’s baseball pitcher

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in human history,
as decorated a player

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on the international baseball
landscape as you can find anywhere.

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She is a multi-time MVP,

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she’s been part of this six-straight
World Cup Title run for Japan.

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One heck of a career for Ayami Sato.

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Allison Schroder from
British Columbia, she’s ready to go.

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Schroder made her debut with a splash

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in the 2018 Women’s
World Cup as a 16 year old.

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Called strike three
over the outside corner.

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Allison Schroder comes into
the game and strikes out Cobb.

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My parents banked very early
that I was not an artistic kid.

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My twin sister danced.

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Not for me, at all.

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And so I was in a lot of sports.

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Kind of the small town thing
that your kids are in a lot of sports

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when they’re growing up
and it gets them out of the house

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and interacting with people.

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I did track and field,

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I was riding dirt bikes,

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kind of pondered the idea of
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I think by the time I was maybe seven,

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T-ball and baseball
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My very first glove was
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which was not a good glove,
but it was what I had,

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and it was probably two times
the size of my head.

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In Fruitvale we had
a Little League team

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that was called,
The Beaver Valley Yankees.

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And honestly,
I think that then in my career,

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you could probably ask me
what my favorite baseball memory is,

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and that’s still gonna be it.

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Super dry, hot,
August days playing baseball,

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Little League,
in Beaver Valley, Fruitvale.

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I started playing baseball
at six years old.

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Whoa! Another hit!

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I’m gonna get you now.
I’m right behind ya!

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My father was definitely
the influence behind that.

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You’re on the bases.

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And then a coach saw me playing catch
with my dad and he goes,

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“Hey sir, your daughter
has a really good arm.”

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”You mind if I take her
on my baseball team?”

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Since that day I’ve
never looked back.

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When I think of one word to talk about
our program, it always is “grit”.

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We just have so much
passion, so much grit.

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They love the game
and they work really hard.

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And we’re really proud of them,
and we’re excited for this tournament.

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We’re playing against
the best in the world.

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There’s no easy games,
there’s no letting up.

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I think one mistake can
cost you the whole tournament.

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Runner!

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You respect one another ‘cause
you know how hard each other trains,

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and you know how good they are,

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but you just wanna win so bad.

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And at the end we’re
hoping to be wearing a gold medal.

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We’re a really tight-knit group.

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We love one another
and it took every single one of us

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to get to where we wanted to be.

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Wheels! Wheels over there.

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Just a game,
as simple as a ball and bat,

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and yet as complex as
the American spirit it symbolizes.

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It’s a sport, a business,

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sometimes almost even religion.

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This is a game for America,
this baseball,

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a game for boys, and for men.

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My pursuit of baseball
began as a young boy,

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watching my mother play softball,

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watching these women
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hit the ball, throw the ball,

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the smell of the grass, the sun.

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And just remember thinking-

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that’s my first memory,
“This is what I wanna do.”

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My sister could throw the ball
a lot harder than me.

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And it was a little embarrassing
at first, being on the team.

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She would go to a ball game
and she’d come back with great stats.

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Four for five and two home runs,

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lot of RBI’s in the game.

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My stat line would be,
oh for two with a sacrifice bunt.

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As you trace the relationship of
sports and women and men

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throughout the 20th century,
you get some fits and starts.

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You get like, The League of Their Own
in the ‘40s and ‘50s.

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And it’s, literally, started by
Philip Wrigley and Branch Rickey

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from the Cubs and the Dodgers,

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because they were afraid that all
the men would be away at war.

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Americans were passionate about baseball,

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and especially, if you take yourself
back to those very dark days,

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there just wasn’t a lot of
good news to be had.

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And my grandfather really felt
strongly that people loved baseball,

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and what a shame

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to take America’s game
away from America.

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I was out playing softball

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and this scout came out and just
like in the movie, my mother said,

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“I’ve told you three times
already, my daughter’s not going.”

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He says, “But Mrs. Blair,
you don’t understand.”

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”We’re going to pay her
$55 a week to play.”

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My mother looked at
my father and said,

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“George, go crank up the car.
I’m packing her suitcase”

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”and she’s on the
next train outta here.”

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I’d get up to bat,

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and you had 10,000 people
in the stands, cheering.

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That was a weird feeling for a girl
in those days

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because we never experienced
anything like that

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before we got to the big leagues.

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When I was growing up, in the 1940’s,
a woman’s place was at home.

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But I always knew it was at
home, first, second, and third.

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Let’s face it. Gender equality
was not something

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anybody talked about back then.

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The league lasted nine more seasons
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to 1954.

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Then men came back and
re-entered the workforce.

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The fans left to go back
to the major leagues

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and there was nobody coming out,
watching the girls play anymore.

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The fact that there were three women
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who didn’t get to play
in the All-American League is

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a fascinating story.

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You have Mamie Johnson,
Connie Morgan, and Toni Stone.

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They got the opportunity to play
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primarily because the
All-American Girl’s Baseball League

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did not allow women of color.

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Shown sharpening her batting eye,
Miss Stone is very fast afoot--

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Toni Stone, her first season,
she hit 254

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and was voted into the All-Star Game.

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Yes, from all appearances,

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this second base lady is up
in the NAL to stay,

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which makes us conscious more
and more each day of that old axiom,

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“It’s a woman’s world.”

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I think it’s important to always
learn from your history.

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Pioneers and trailblazers,

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look what they went through.

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And for me, that’s an important part,
not just of women’s baseball,

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but of baseball’s history.

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Just because you don’t see
somebody that looks like you,

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it doesn’t mean that you can’t do it.

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It just means you
have to blaze that trail.

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It’s being the first to open
that door, to break that barrier.

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In the community of
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in 1972, Maria Pepe,

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who was 12 years old at the time,

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had played baseball
with her friends, boys,

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in her community
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And when they told her, hey, we’re
gonna have a little league program.

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You should sign up,
she said, oh, that’d be great.

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So she signed up
and they registered her

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and she was given a
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and actually played
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And then someone reported
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that Hoboken was
allowing a girl to play,

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which at the time, was a violation
of the terms of the Federal Charter,

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which said it was a program for boys.

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And so they essentially told Maria,
we’re sorry, you can’t play anymore.

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And the National Organization
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and filed a lawsuit against
Little League Baseball, Incorporated,

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saying it was wrong. She should be
able to play. You’re discriminating.

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It, unfortunately, took two years
for them to rule in her favor.

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And by that time she had aged out
of being able to play Little League.

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So, she did a wonderful thing

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for all the thousands of
girls that have come after.

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But it didn’t help her.

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Little League sued for bias,
but Maria no longer cares

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Maria Pepe’s lawsuit
against Little League

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forced them to allow
girls to play baseball,

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but instead of encouraging
girls to play baseball,

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they set up a softball league.

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Clearly, for decades we’ve
been playing baseball.

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We’ve shown and proved
that we can play baseball.

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And depending on the
geographic area that you live in,

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people will still try to
force you into softball.

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Baseball and softball,
for me, are not the same sport.

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Shorter bases, bigger ball,

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different pitch coming at you,
different planes of motion,

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different ground ball reads.

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There’s different strategies,
there’s different timing,

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there’s such a different
mental component that goes into it.

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My earliest recollection
of sports is my sister.

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She was a year older than me,
physically bigger and stronger.

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She dominated the sports scene.

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All she wanted to
do is play baseball.

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But that wasn’t an opportunity
for her to play baseball.

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And she was mad all the time.

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And she became a star in softball.

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Ellie wanted desperately to play
baseball but didn’t have a chance.

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My dad played baseball
and I wanted to be just like him.

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And I thought softball
wasn’t close enough to baseball.

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Coaches, when they come
across a girl that plays baseball,

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they always come to me
and they’re like, “Hey, Veronica,”

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”I have a player that plays baseball.”

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”What do you recommend I should do?”

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”I think she has a better
opportunity in softball.”

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My response to them is always

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“I assure you that she knows”

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”there’s an opportunity in softball.”

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”I assure you that she has been told”

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”probably more than 100
times in her short life”

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”that she should switch to softball.”

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”So what you could do,
which nobody else has done”

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”is support her in her baseball dream.”

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We don’t go to Serena Williams
and tell her to go play ping pong.

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So, it’s ridiculous that
we still have this argument.

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Kelsie, I’m here!

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Growing up playing Little League, I
was always the only girl on my team.

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But then when I was
on a travel ball team,

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my dad told me, he said, “Hey,
there’s another girl on the team.”

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And I was like, “What?
Like there’s no way-"

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At the time you feel like you’re
the only girl that plays baseball

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in the whole entire world.

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So yeah, I saw another girl on
the team and it ended up being Jade.

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And Jade’s one of my best friends,
on the National Team now.

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What I struggled with most
was the discrimination.

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It comes back to, literally,

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being eight, nine, 10 years old
and getting this.

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And you might not understand it
at that age, but now that I see it,

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I’m like, why did I have to go
through that to play baseball?

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You can ask any other
woman in baseball

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and they’d probably say the same thing.
But I wanted to quit, for sure.

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I wanted to quit multiple times
throughout my career, actually,

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because of that.

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I was a multi-sport
athlete in high school.

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So I played soccer,
played a little bit of volleyball,

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I played golf, track and field.

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and when I would do that,
it’d be with girls.

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And I remember feeling just
very relaxed and comfortable

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because I was around the same gender.

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But when I would go to the
field for baseball, it was kind of-

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I would get a little tense ‘cause
I didn’t know what to say

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or who to be.

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It kind of took away my
social skills for a bit,

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because I didn’t know
how to talk to the guys.

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I didn’t know what
conversation to have.

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Feeling very isolated.

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I grew up with, obviously,
playing on the boys’ teams.

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But I think that experience
would’ve been that much more powerful

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if it was with other girls, like me.

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Being with 19 other women that

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love the same game that I love,

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and have the same passions that I do is,

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it’s pretty incredible. It’s awesome.

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And being able to share that
and then come together

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and just perform and play is,

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it’s something we all
dream about, right?

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I’m here. I’m here, right?
In this moment, I’m here.

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And I’m like, man,
I wish we could do this every day.

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I wish we could do this for a living.

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God willing, maybe one
day there will be a league that

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we can all play together and--

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Sometimes I’m just like,
is that just too much to ask for,

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for one day, to just have that?

328
00:26:00,850 --> 00:26:02,769
Watching batting practice. See?

329
00:26:03,395 --> 00:26:05,021
Yeah. Pretty good swings.

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00:26:06,314 --> 00:26:07,315
Hey, Alli.

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00:26:07,482 --> 00:26:09,317
- Nice to meet you.
- I’m Ferguson. Pleasure.

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00:26:09,484 --> 00:26:10,986
- Nice to meet you. Real good.
- Nice to meet you.

333
00:26:11,152 --> 00:26:13,780
- Heard a lot of stories about ya.
- I’ve heard a lot of stories about you.

334
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:18,827
I think because you
had to face some adversity,

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made you a better athlete.

336
00:26:20,161 --> 00:26:22,163
- Yeah.
- A better player, better teammate.

337
00:26:22,330 --> 00:26:24,749
I think, basically,
becoming more mature

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in a sport that isolated you.

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00:26:29,045 --> 00:26:32,173
Yeah, I would agree, and building
resilience as well, was huge for me

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at a young age ‘cause that’s
something that you take into life,

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you take into jobs, careers.

342
00:26:37,053 --> 00:26:38,888
My situation’s similar.

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Being the only player of color
that was a pitcher,

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every so often you’d hear,
“Hey, you don’t belong here.”

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”What’re you doing here?”

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00:26:47,188 --> 00:26:50,442
If somebody was really heckling me bad,
I used to walk from the outfield

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00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:53,361
into the infield. I’d
become an infielder.

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00:26:53,528 --> 00:26:55,614
So you control the way you react.

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00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:59,659
And it was hard to
learn that at 10, 11 years old.

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But, if the batter’s heckling
me after he’s struck out,

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I don’t need to look at him.
I just don’t give him the time of day,

352
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- and they’re not gonna keep going.
- Yeah.

353
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Hello and welcome to the
Women’s Baseball World Cup,

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Group A being played
here in Thunder Bay.

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This year the World Cup is
set up a little bit different.

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There’s group stages.
And so we’re Group A,

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and it’s us, Australia, Canada,
Mexico, Korea, and Hong Kong.

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The top three ranked teams
will go on to play the top three teams

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from Group B in the Finals.

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This team has been building itself for
the last five years in different ways.

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We’re just here to showcase
it and set the standard of

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what we want women’s
baseball to look like.

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00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:53,922
We work really hard for this moment,
and to finally pull on the jersey,

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it’s only pride, yeah.

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00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:14,693
I have a very aggressive approach
to my coaching style

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00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:17,696
and I think the players respond
really well to it.

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From the moment we’re in the hotel,
the dorms, we’re blasting music,

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to the moment we’re on the bus,

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and then the moment
we get off the bus,

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we’re just a whole vibe.
We’re just- we’re just--

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I love being around them.

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They bring the energy, for sure.

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Here we go, lock it.

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00:28:34,295 --> 00:28:35,296
You ready?

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Our mission is to rule
the entire fuckin’ world.

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00:28:44,931 --> 00:28:47,934
There’s no friendliness
in competition. This is war.

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After, we can be nice.
We can be friends after the war.

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But not before.

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This is the opening
Women’s Baseball World Cup Games,

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between Hong Kong, China,
and Korea. What a match-up.

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And here is now Soyeon Park.

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First game of the World Cup.

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Group A. Driven to left!
That’s gonna drop.

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A run comes in.
Nice job by Soyeon Park.

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00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:56,688
A one-run game, 9-8 lead,
by Hong Kong, China.

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00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:58,606
Ground ball to short!

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00:30:58,773 --> 00:31:01,568
The throw to first.
And that’s the out!

388
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:03,987
And that’s the win!

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00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:07,115
Hong Kong, China survives

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00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:11,202
with a nine to eight
victory over Korea.

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00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:18,710
Game Two between
the United States and Australia.

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00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:22,297
Whitmore laces out to left center.

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00:31:22,463 --> 00:31:24,883
It’s down for a knock.

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00:31:25,174 --> 00:31:27,844
And she’ll hold at first
with a leadoff base hit.

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00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:33,892
And a ball looped, shallow
right center. Back with it is Hugo!

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00:31:34,058 --> 00:31:39,063
And the United States is
gonna hold on for the 3-2 win.

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00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:45,778
And here hits now Diana Ibarra.

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00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:49,574
Mexico wins it!

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00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:54,579
That’s Mexico’s first win,
and the second loss for Australia.

400
00:31:55,705 --> 00:31:56,998
She hits it in the air.

401
00:31:57,165 --> 00:32:00,376
Hits it up in the breeze
and that ball’s gone!

402
00:32:01,252 --> 00:32:03,630
The US is undefeated so far,

403
00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:06,549
and Korea hasn’t won a game yet.

404
00:32:08,217 --> 00:32:12,931
Allison Schroder, she is really
an all-around great talent for Canada.

405
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:16,392
She’s a professional firefighter

406
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:19,938
and she goes wherever
the wildfires are raging.

407
00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:30,615
Yeah, right now we’re on site of

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00:32:30,782 --> 00:32:34,619
the 2021 Merry Creek wildfire.

409
00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:39,374
I remember being at home just across
the valley when this wildfire ignited,

410
00:32:39,540 --> 00:32:44,545
and watching it go from a
small plume of campfire smoke

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00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:48,049
to a raging hillside within
a matter of minutes.

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00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:53,221
I think you don’t really think of
the magnitude of what you’re doing

413
00:32:53,388 --> 00:32:56,391
as a wildland firefighter and
then as well as a national athlete

414
00:32:56,557 --> 00:32:58,559
because to you,
it’s just kind of like,

415
00:32:58,726 --> 00:33:01,104
oh yeah, things are good,
things are normal.

416
00:33:01,270 --> 00:33:05,650
I just fought a wildfire last week
and now I’m going to the World Cup.

417
00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:08,611
I figured before
that I burnt myself out

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00:33:08,778 --> 00:33:10,279
from playing baseball and training,

419
00:33:10,446 --> 00:33:13,658
but it’s incomparable to
working 14-day shifts in a row

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00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:15,159
fighting wildfires.

421
00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:17,495
As an athlete,
I’ve noticed the smoke inhalation

422
00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:20,665
to significantly affect my
abilities on the playing field.

423
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:23,292
It’s almost like you come out
of a fire season

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00:33:23,459 --> 00:33:26,838
and you feel like you’ve smoked
a pack a day for the last 98 days.

425
00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:29,257
I’m 21 and my knees both hurt

426
00:33:29,424 --> 00:33:31,634
and there’s not much
I can do about it, at this point,

427
00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:33,344
as long as I keep working this job.

428
00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:37,015
Shoulders, which isn’t a good
one for me, as a pitcher.

429
00:33:37,473 --> 00:33:39,308
There’s a lot more at
stake on the fire line

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00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:41,644
than there is in a big game,
and I think that’s something that

431
00:33:41,811 --> 00:33:44,272
I’ve really been able to
use to calm myself down

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00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:46,649
on the baseball field
in big situations.

433
00:33:47,442 --> 00:33:49,027
One ball, two strikes.

434
00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:55,283
Backing up, it’s over her head,
a run scores. Here comes another.

435
00:33:55,450 --> 00:33:59,037
Throw to the plate, cut off,
and it’s 2-0, Canada.

436
00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:06,210
Game number nine, the huge
matchup between The United States…

437
00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:08,004
One, two, three! USA!

438
00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:09,172
and Canada.

439
00:34:09,338 --> 00:34:10,882
This is huge for me in my career,

440
00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:15,053
because this is the first big games
that we’ve had in Canada.

441
00:34:15,219 --> 00:34:18,347
So we’ll see Schroder,
who’s one of the biggest stories

442
00:34:18,514 --> 00:34:20,516
at this tournament,
playing here on home soil.

443
00:34:21,684 --> 00:34:25,897
Pops this ball up, out towards
right center. Three players converge.

444
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:29,525
The call and the catch made by
the centerfielder, Kelsie Whitmore.

445
00:34:31,069 --> 00:34:34,697
She left the bases loaded.
And that is going the other way.

446
00:34:34,864 --> 00:34:36,824
And that’s gonna fall in right field.

447
00:34:36,991 --> 00:34:40,078
One run scored.
They’re gonna send another one.

448
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,916
And that is hacked to right.

449
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,919
It’s carrying. And it’s gone!

450
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:50,088
It’s a grand slam!

451
00:34:50,254 --> 00:34:52,673
And the fans here at Thunder Bay
just don’t know what to do.

452
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,719
You look down that
first base line and it’s silence.

453
00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:59,097
What a way to end it, a strike out.

454
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:03,893
And that is the ball game,
23 to nothing, the final score.

455
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:06,521
This is Canada’s first loss
in the tournament.

456
00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:08,439
But the US remains undefeated.

457
00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:12,485
Hong Kong, China versus
the US powerhouse,

458
00:35:12,652 --> 00:35:16,114
that is looking to secure
the spot in the Finals.

459
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:17,949
A swing and a miss!

460
00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:23,121
And USA has clinched a
spot in the World Cup Finals.

461
00:35:25,289 --> 00:35:27,792
The US finishing one,
Canada finishing two,

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00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:29,710
and Mexico finishing three.

463
00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:31,754
Those top three teams will be

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00:35:31,921 --> 00:35:33,965
in the Finals here in
Thunder Bay, Canada.

465
00:35:34,132 --> 00:35:38,886
Next year, Group B will be
played in Japan in September.

466
00:35:39,053 --> 00:35:41,973
Let’s go!

467
00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:43,933
Ticket punched!

468
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:46,769
No doubt. Let’s go.

469
00:35:46,811 --> 00:35:50,231
Korea ending the World Cup winless.

470
00:35:50,565 --> 00:35:52,358
A learning experience for them.

471
00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:52,210
Hi Soyeon.

472
00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:56,464
I’m happy to talk to you
through the camera.

473
00:36:56,631 --> 00:37:01,636
And I was very
happy to hear your story.

474
00:37:01,802 --> 00:37:04,305
I’m very excited to
follow your career.

475
00:37:04,472 --> 00:37:08,643
You are the most strong woman,

476
00:37:08,809 --> 00:37:12,480
mentality-wise and in baseball, too.

477
00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:17,235
So I wish one day we
can meet and play catch.

478
00:37:17,401 --> 00:37:22,406
I wish I could throw
some ball so you can hit.

479
00:37:23,699 --> 00:37:27,370
Want to tell you to follow your
dream and never give up.

480
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:29,121
Good luck.

481
00:37:50,017 --> 00:37:53,688
Kelsie is one of the most fit
athletes that I’ve been around.

482
00:37:53,854 --> 00:37:57,566
I am so impressed
with her physical preparation

483
00:37:57,733 --> 00:37:59,902
and her mental preparation.

484
00:38:00,820 --> 00:38:05,783
The average fastball in the
major leagues is 93 miles an hour.

485
00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:08,786
And so I think it’s a tough road,

486
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:11,372
but if anybody could
overcome that obstacle,

487
00:38:11,539 --> 00:38:13,791
it would be Kelsie Whitmore.

488
00:38:19,505 --> 00:38:23,301
Any plans to go back to
Staten Island for the Ferry Hawks?

489
00:38:23,509 --> 00:38:26,304
I have no clue what my plans are.

490
00:38:26,804 --> 00:38:29,140
I think that’s what I’m trying
to figure out right now is

491
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:31,600
what I’m gonna do and
where I’m gonna go.

492
00:38:31,767 --> 00:38:34,603
Everything’s so in the air
year to year.

493
00:38:34,770 --> 00:38:35,855
- Sure.
- That’s the tough part,

494
00:38:36,022 --> 00:38:38,941
unless you’re in the big leagues or
in double-A, triple-A, or whatever,

495
00:38:39,108 --> 00:38:40,693
- Yeah.
- minor league ball,

496
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:42,903
you’re not signing a
multi-year contract.

497
00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:47,158
She basically has to have her A-game
every time she steps on the field.

498
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:49,994
There’s not a lot of room
for errors or mistakes.

499
00:38:50,161 --> 00:38:53,831
She’s gotta be
prepared and perform

500
00:38:53,998 --> 00:38:55,875
on every pitch, on every play.

501
00:38:56,042 --> 00:38:57,752
Nobody’s perfect all the time.

502
00:38:57,918 --> 00:39:01,589
But if she isn’t, then it opens up that
floodgate for the naysayers

503
00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:06,302
to say, “I told ya so.
She shouldn’t be here.”

504
00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:07,595
And that’s a lot of added pressure

505
00:39:07,762 --> 00:39:10,348
that a lot of these other
ballplayers don’t have.

506
00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:28,616
I started off playing with
the boys in Little League.

507
00:39:28,783 --> 00:39:32,286
The furthest I made it is when
I was 10 and we made it to States.

508
00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:34,955
That was it and I kept
going into high school.

509
00:39:35,122 --> 00:39:36,957
And the varsity coaches, they,

510
00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:39,460
“Yo I don’t think you’re good
enough to play varsity.”

511
00:39:39,627 --> 00:39:41,420
And I was like, “You’ve never
seen me play a game.”

512
00:39:41,587 --> 00:39:44,507
So, it was just like, they counted
me out before it even happened.

513
00:39:44,673 --> 00:39:45,883
I had the same problem.

514
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:50,554
In high school I played
freshman ball, 9th grade

515
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:52,056
and, I didn’t get to pitch that often.

516
00:39:52,223 --> 00:39:55,393
But middle school when I
played, I was number one.

517
00:39:56,227 --> 00:39:59,855
It’s a complete game for Mo’ne Davis.

518
00:40:00,147 --> 00:40:02,066
The coach he knew who I was.

519
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,235
I played with him for a couple years
so he was able to give me chances.

520
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:07,238
But, once I got to high school,
they’re like, “I don’t know.”

521
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:09,407
- ”This guy is 6’2”-- “
- Right. And it becomes this--

522
00:40:09,573 --> 00:40:12,076
Yeah, like, “We’ll give you
some innings here and there.”

523
00:40:12,243 --> 00:40:15,913
And then, when I finally got my
chance to actually pitch a full game,

524
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,249
we held ‘em to two runs and
I think we won the game.

525
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:20,084
And that coach is like,
“Where did this come from?”

526
00:40:20,251 --> 00:40:22,545
But I’m sitting there, I’m like,
“You never gave me a chance.”

527
00:40:22,711 --> 00:40:25,756
‘Cause I played with all
those guys in middle school.

528
00:40:25,923 --> 00:40:27,716
So, the guys knew,
but the coaches didn’t know.

529
00:40:27,883 --> 00:40:29,844
Yeah, I feel ya.

530
00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:44,275
I’ve been going through a
lot of mental health issues

531
00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:46,026
for the past two years.

532
00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:49,447
I moved out on my own
and found it hard to find jobs

533
00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:51,323
and eventually had
to leave my apartment

534
00:40:51,490 --> 00:40:53,868
because I couldn’t
pay for it anymore.

535
00:40:54,034 --> 00:40:56,620
A lot of us are taught,
we need to be strong.

536
00:40:56,787 --> 00:40:58,289
Really hold your own.

537
00:40:58,456 --> 00:41:02,293
Even for me now, I’m like, well
if my insurance doesn’t cover this,

538
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,128
I’m not gonna go to therapy.

539
00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:07,381
And that’s difficult. That’s a
difficult thing to have to stomach

540
00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:10,092
and be like, well I have to try to
figure out how to do this by myself.

541
00:41:10,259 --> 00:41:11,886
I feel like that’s a journey
that we’re all taking,

542
00:41:12,052 --> 00:41:14,555
that we still take as-
no matter how old we get.

543
00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:19,477
When you see your child-

544
00:41:20,936 --> 00:41:22,980
and it’s not just working hard,

545
00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:26,400
it’s keeping her composure,

546
00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:29,111
believing, “If I work hard,”

547
00:41:29,278 --> 00:41:33,324
”if I treat people well,
if I’m respectful-- “

548
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:37,244
Gabby has gone through so many walls,
just slapping in her face.

549
00:41:37,411 --> 00:41:39,497
“Oh, you’re great.”
But then they walk away.

550
00:41:39,663 --> 00:41:42,166
It’s like, “If I’m so great,
then why aren’t you embracing me?”

551
00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:43,918
”Why aren’t you helping me?”

552
00:41:44,084 --> 00:41:45,920
I don’t want her to
reach the point that

553
00:41:46,086 --> 00:41:50,508
she becomes so disappointed
and jaded in spirit.

554
00:41:54,261 --> 00:41:55,513
So when I decided, I’m like,

555
00:41:55,679 --> 00:41:58,599
“Okay, well, New York isn’t,
obviously, fitting right now.

556
00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:00,518
Let me just take it as a sign
and let me go to Puerto Rico

557
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:01,685
and play baseball.”

558
00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:06,023
”Hey, maybe being in baseball
again will lift my spirits up.”

559
00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:15,950
This is a process.

560
00:42:16,116 --> 00:42:19,286
We are trying to get new players.

561
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:22,373
We brought Gabby, and we
brought some other players

562
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:24,542
to go to the championship.

563
00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:25,876
Uno, dos, tres!

564
00:42:26,043 --> 00:42:29,505
Our players are really
looking for that.

565
00:42:29,672 --> 00:42:33,676
They are- really want to show
the world, that they belong there.

566
00:42:33,842 --> 00:42:36,387
The Puerto Rico team and me,
included, as well,

567
00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:40,558
and all of us, we’re so eager to try
to get to that next level

568
00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:42,476
at the next World Cup.

569
00:42:47,314 --> 00:42:49,149
Good morning, good afternoon,
and good evening

570
00:42:49,316 --> 00:42:51,151
to all the baseball fans
around the world.

571
00:42:51,318 --> 00:42:54,280
You are watching Women’s
Baseball World Cup, Group B

572
00:42:54,446 --> 00:42:58,242
in Miyoshi Kinsai Stadium, Hiroshima.

573
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:02,538
Each of these teams will
only see each other once.

574
00:43:02,705 --> 00:43:06,000
Top three finishers will join
the United States, Canada,

575
00:43:06,166 --> 00:43:09,920
and Mexico, qualified as the top
three finishers out of Thunder Bay.

576
00:43:29,773 --> 00:43:32,026
Chinese Taipei and Cuba.

577
00:43:33,652 --> 00:43:34,653
Two outs.

578
00:43:35,112 --> 00:43:38,616
That’s a pitch out, thrown to the
second base and in time.

579
00:43:39,742 --> 00:43:41,076
Get a runner out.

580
00:43:41,785 --> 00:43:45,623
Chinese Taipei become the first W
in this tournament.

581
00:43:48,375 --> 00:43:51,670
A matchup between 16 France
and number five Venezuela.

582
00:43:51,795 --> 00:43:53,631
Léonie Pauthe over there
at first who has the infield.

583
00:43:53,797 --> 00:43:55,257
Here’s a flare into
shallow left field.

584
00:43:55,424 --> 00:43:56,634
This is gonna go
down for a base hit.

585
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,636
And it hops
toward the foul line.

586
00:43:58,802 --> 00:44:02,473
And that will score the
game-winning run for Venezuela.

587
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,558
And France, a valiant
effort and a good start,

588
00:44:04,725 --> 00:44:06,852
but Venezuela is super-talented.

589
00:44:07,269 --> 00:44:10,064
Puerto Rico takes on Cuba.

590
00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:14,318
Another 1-2 pitch,
and that will do it.

591
00:44:14,485 --> 00:44:19,490
A really impressive wall-to-wall
performance by Puerto Rico.

592
00:44:20,074 --> 00:44:22,826
One more for the road with the
world’s number one from Japan.

593
00:44:22,993 --> 00:44:26,664
They get set to take on the
world’s number seven, Cuba.

594
00:44:43,097 --> 00:44:45,599
A full count offering
grounded over to third,

595
00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:48,268
and fumbling that ball,
will throw to first.

596
00:44:48,435 --> 00:44:52,690
What a stretch and dig over there
by Libia Duarte who does the splits.

597
00:44:54,149 --> 00:44:59,154
Cuba’s trying to reclaim its place atop
the international baseball world.

598
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:17,149
When I was a kid growing up,
I never think and I never see,

599
00:46:17,316 --> 00:46:21,487
not even thought a girl could
play baseball or another game.

600
00:46:22,237 --> 00:46:26,617
But, right now, yes,
I think they can do.

601
00:46:26,784 --> 00:46:28,786
Because everything is different.

602
00:46:28,994 --> 00:46:32,790
That’s good. I like this way better,
the way is now.

603
00:46:55,103 --> 00:46:59,733
When I watching TV and see a woman
playing baseball, and we watch it.

604
00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:02,027
Oh, yes. I wanna see,

605
00:47:02,194 --> 00:47:04,071
and then I can give
my opinion about it

606
00:47:04,238 --> 00:47:07,074
because it’s-
oh, that’d be great. Yes.

607
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:09,910
I would love to see.
Libia, she can play.

608
00:47:10,077 --> 00:47:13,121
She can play and she can hit and
she can throw and she can catch

609
00:47:13,288 --> 00:47:14,998
and she can run, too.

610
00:47:15,249 --> 00:47:16,834
Very impressed.

611
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,504
Off again after this,
the seventh inning,

612
00:47:20,671 --> 00:47:24,299
and now the tying run comes to score.

613
00:47:24,466 --> 00:47:29,137
We have a tie ball game,
7-7 at the top of the seventh inning.

614
00:47:29,304 --> 00:47:34,309
Another two RBI single by
Duarte, the seventh inning.

615
00:47:41,441 --> 00:47:44,736
And it goes, and the throw
is not in time. And now--

616
00:47:53,161 --> 00:47:55,539
Great chance at end of game
with a squeeze play.

617
00:47:55,706 --> 00:48:00,711
And she will be the final at bat,

618
00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:03,505
and Venezuela win again
with a squeeze play--

619
00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:35,787
Venezuela facing off
against Puerto Rico.

620
00:48:41,418 --> 00:48:44,504
A swing and a flyball in the
air towards shallow left,

621
00:48:44,671 --> 00:48:47,841
coming onto Alanis Rodriguez.
That’s gonna drop down for a base hit.

622
00:48:48,008 --> 00:48:50,844
And she gets her team
started with a 1-0 lead.

623
00:48:51,011 --> 00:48:54,097
This is gonna be an RBI infield single
if she can beat it out at first,

624
00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:57,392
and she does. It’s 3-0, Venezuela.

625
00:48:57,684 --> 00:49:00,562
One-oh pitch. Lifted in the air to right,
starting in and out,

626
00:49:00,729 --> 00:49:02,606
going back as Marin, Abril is there.

627
00:49:02,773 --> 00:49:07,527
Congratulations to a Venezuela team
that had every right--

628
00:49:07,694 --> 00:49:09,488
Losing in Japan was difficult.

629
00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:12,032
Who doesn’t wanna be
in the World Cup Finals?

630
00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:16,787
It’s not about me.

631
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:20,749
It’s about us, and
I wanted us to win.

632
00:49:20,916 --> 00:49:22,292
But we came up short.

633
00:49:26,046 --> 00:49:29,716
And all I can hope for is
progress on myself.

634
00:49:29,883 --> 00:49:33,887
Because leading up to that point,
I was having a rough time.

635
00:49:35,681 --> 00:49:40,686
It’s definitely tough,
but we’ll live to play another day.

636
00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:56,994
Venezuela against undefeated Japan.

637
00:49:57,995 --> 00:49:59,997
Venezuela take the lead.

638
00:50:01,373 --> 00:50:05,252
Third inning, after Japan scored one run,
bottom of the second inning.

639
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:10,424
Another hard-hit ball, with another
RBI base hit by Venezuela.

640
00:50:12,467 --> 00:50:15,637
Wow. Good, tight ball game.

641
00:53:31,666 --> 00:53:36,671
Ayami Sato, a true legend in Japan.

642
00:53:37,380 --> 00:53:39,216
She’s taking the mound.

643
00:53:42,344 --> 00:53:44,554
In for a strike, number 18.

644
00:53:44,721 --> 00:53:48,141
That’s a fastball.
Here comes the pitch.

645
00:53:48,308 --> 00:53:50,477
Ground just went
towards the first base.

646
00:53:50,644 --> 00:53:55,232
Sato recovered the first base in time,
retiring the side, in order.

647
00:53:56,233 --> 00:53:59,069
Nothing scored.
Winning run on third base.

648
00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:04,241
Drive this one towards the gap,
and that will be it.

649
00:54:06,243 --> 00:54:11,248
Japan , they’ve got the third victory

650
00:54:11,706 --> 00:54:13,291
with a walk off--

651
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,898
The last five days. Congratulations
to World Number One, Japan.

652
00:54:37,065 --> 00:54:39,859
World Number Two, Chinese Taipei.

653
00:54:40,026 --> 00:54:44,531
And, our final qualifier, World
Number Five, Venezuela, moving on.

654
00:54:44,698 --> 00:54:49,703
And next year, six teams contest
for the crown in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

655
00:54:54,624 --> 00:54:55,625
- Hello.
- Hey.

656
00:54:55,792 --> 00:54:58,295
- What’s happening?
- Hey, what’s happening?

657
00:54:58,461 --> 00:55:00,005
- What’s up?
- Hey.

658
00:55:01,298 --> 00:55:04,509
You guys put this up? That’s funny.

659
00:55:05,302 --> 00:55:08,388
I grew up with my grandpa, my dad,
and my brother. We golfed a lot.

660
00:55:08,555 --> 00:55:11,141
Six years old, she play golf.

661
00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:15,645
Thought she’s gonna be stuck with golf,
but she ended up baseball.

662
00:55:15,812 --> 00:55:19,566
I went to Canada and Japan to
watch her in the World Cup.

663
00:55:19,733 --> 00:55:22,777
And here, when she was Little League,

664
00:55:22,944 --> 00:55:26,531
every home run she hits,
I give her $100.

665
00:55:27,365 --> 00:55:30,577
He made the deal. That was the deal.
We shook on it.

666
00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:33,496
- She was counting.
- I did. I did start counting.

667
00:55:33,747 --> 00:55:35,999
I had 12 home runs my senior year.

668
00:55:37,792 --> 00:55:39,002
And I was like, hey--

669
00:55:39,169 --> 00:55:41,588
I was counting on-
After college, that’s it.

670
00:55:41,755 --> 00:55:44,799
- He stopped. He stopped.
- I’m broke, already.

671
00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:51,181
We see her play the game,

672
00:55:51,348 --> 00:55:55,352
and when she has
interviews, we watch.

673
00:55:56,102 --> 00:55:57,437
We watch that.

674
00:55:57,604 --> 00:56:01,024
And we talk very often.

675
00:56:01,191 --> 00:56:02,359
Yeah, my grandma-

676
00:56:02,525 --> 00:56:05,362
You call me every other day, huh?

677
00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:07,947
Because I miss you, that’s why.

678
00:56:08,114 --> 00:56:11,368
You’ll leave me a voicemail
if I don’t answer.

679
00:56:11,534 --> 00:56:13,620
And then she’ll call me a
second time and be like,

680
00:56:13,787 --> 00:56:16,873
“Why didn’t you answer my call?”

681
00:56:17,415 --> 00:56:20,210
Sometimes I get worried.

682
00:56:20,919 --> 00:56:22,462
What do you worry about?

683
00:56:22,962 --> 00:56:27,342
About you, being lonely, sometimes.

684
00:56:28,385 --> 00:56:30,762
You’re lonely, sometimes.

685
00:56:32,806 --> 00:56:37,811
This is my third year
in pro-ball, overall,

686
00:56:38,395 --> 00:56:40,146
second year in the Atlantic League.

687
00:56:40,313 --> 00:56:43,233
But I still get moments where I feel

688
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,403
there’s that gut part
of me that’s like, oh

689
00:56:47,153 --> 00:56:49,656
I still am the only one.

690
00:56:49,823 --> 00:56:51,783
I still am alone, in a sense.

691
00:56:51,950 --> 00:56:53,410
I’m able to learn how
to cope with it now.

692
00:56:53,576 --> 00:56:58,415
I’m able to learn how to
get through it, and deal with it.

693
00:56:58,581 --> 00:57:00,667
But there’s still moments, for sure.

694
00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:02,877
And I think there will
always be those moments.

695
00:57:08,758 --> 00:57:12,846
Social media can be- it can be brutal.

696
00:57:13,888 --> 00:57:17,851
I remember when I would
see comments, they would eat me alive.

697
00:57:37,454 --> 00:57:40,707
So I went through it and I
screenshotted the ones that, like

698
00:57:40,874 --> 00:57:42,125
kinda, like, hurt me a little.

699
00:57:42,292 --> 00:57:44,752
I make it my lock screen,
so I look at it every day.

700
00:57:44,919 --> 00:57:47,297
And I look at it,
and I say, “Thank you.”

701
00:57:47,464 --> 00:57:49,048
”Thank you for
wanting me to get better.”

702
00:57:49,215 --> 00:57:51,468
”Thank you for pushing me
to wanna get after it.”

703
00:57:51,634 --> 00:57:54,637
”Just fired me up. Don’t talk back,
talk back with your glove. Right?”

704
00:57:54,804 --> 00:57:58,057
”Talk back with the bat.
Talk back with your action of play.”

705
00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:31,549
Wow.

706
00:58:32,675 --> 00:58:36,721
We are so, so thankful for you
taking time to come visit us tonight.

707
00:58:37,013 --> 00:58:40,266
Just so you know, this is the
third sports bar in the country that

708
00:58:40,433 --> 00:58:42,769
exclusively shows women’s sports.

709
00:58:42,936 --> 00:58:43,937
Thank you.

710
00:58:44,938 --> 00:58:48,274
We have an athlete wall
where all of our Olympians

711
00:58:48,441 --> 00:58:49,817
and professional athletes have signed.

712
00:58:49,984 --> 00:58:53,613
We’d love to have y’all sign the wall,
too, if you would like.

713
00:58:56,616 --> 00:59:00,370
For this Women’s World Cup,
we don’t underestimate anybody.

714
00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:03,039
We know Japan’s working.
We know Chinese Taipei’s working.

715
00:59:03,206 --> 00:59:05,542
We know Mexico’s--
We know they’re all working.

716
00:59:05,708 --> 00:59:08,628
So I think that’s the best way we
could approach it, is with confidence,

717
00:59:08,795 --> 00:59:11,548
but also knowing
they’re coming after us.

718
00:59:13,424 --> 00:59:15,218
I can’t believe we
actually leave tomorrow.

719
00:59:15,385 --> 00:59:16,386
- I know.
- It’s tomorrow.

720
00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:17,720
Yeah.

721
00:59:17,887 --> 00:59:21,558
Ah, Thunder Bay! Feel like it’s
gonna be wild this year.

722
00:59:21,808 --> 00:59:23,560
The people from Japan,
they go all out.

723
00:59:23,726 --> 00:59:26,145
So they’re probably gonna
bring a lot of people.

724
00:59:26,312 --> 00:59:28,398
- I know. Yeah.
- It is gonna be nice to have

725
00:59:28,565 --> 00:59:32,235
quite a bit of people cheering us on.
It’s The World Cup.

726
00:59:32,402 --> 00:59:34,404
But, are you nervous or anything?

727
00:59:34,571 --> 00:59:35,613
I’m not gonna lie.

728
00:59:35,780 --> 00:59:39,158
This game brings out my anxiety.

729
00:59:39,325 --> 00:59:41,411
- I’m being so honest.
- Absolutely. Absolutely.

730
00:59:41,578 --> 00:59:44,330
I have bad anxiety because of baseball.

731
00:59:44,497 --> 00:59:49,294
For me, kicks in when
I hear the national anthem play.

732
00:59:49,586 --> 00:59:50,587
- It hits different--
- Oh, this is it.

733
00:59:50,753 --> 00:59:53,631
‘Cause you look down, it’s like,
you got USA across your chest

734
00:59:53,798 --> 00:59:57,010
- Yeah.
- and you got your staff of 24 people

735
00:59:57,176 --> 01:00:01,180
standing shoulder-to-shoulder with you
and all here for a common goal.

736
01:00:01,347 --> 01:00:04,183
- And it’s like, dang, we made it.
- Yeah. Yeah.

737
01:00:04,350 --> 01:00:06,311
We’re here, we’re for real here.

738
01:00:06,477 --> 01:00:07,604
We got such good chemistry.

739
01:00:07,770 --> 01:00:08,771
- Yeah.
- Energy.

740
01:00:08,938 --> 01:00:11,190
And we only get together
three weeks out of the year.

741
01:00:11,357 --> 01:00:13,610
Literally. And it’s insane.

742
01:00:13,776 --> 01:00:15,903
I always envision us
holding that gold medal.

743
01:00:16,070 --> 01:00:18,031
And me biting that gold medal.

744
01:00:18,197 --> 01:00:20,867
- I see it in my head so vividly.
- Yeah.

745
01:00:21,034 --> 01:00:25,038
But, it’s always good to
have those intentions,

746
01:00:25,204 --> 01:00:29,626
but it’s also important to make
that happen, is to just be here.

747
01:00:30,752 --> 01:00:35,632
You can dream and all that stuff,
but you gotta make it happen.

748
01:00:38,009 --> 01:00:39,552
That expires 12-28-32?

749
01:00:39,719 --> 01:00:41,054
- Yes.
- Perfect.

750
01:00:42,388 --> 01:00:43,973
PASSPORT CONTROL B

751
01:00:45,642 --> 01:00:46,643
“Dear members of the media,”

752
01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:49,354
“welcome to the pre-tournament
press conference”

753
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:54,525
”of the WBSC Women’s
Baseball World Cup Finals, 2024.”

754
01:00:56,277 --> 01:00:59,906
Every opportunity we get pushes
us forward in the right direction.

755
01:01:01,074 --> 01:01:03,076
And so, we need to
take advantage of it,

756
01:01:03,242 --> 01:01:06,079
and not just us up here,
or the players on our teams,

757
01:01:06,245 --> 01:01:08,498
but also anybody who’s
covering the event.

758
01:01:08,665 --> 01:01:10,583
All our videographers,
our photographers,

759
01:01:10,750 --> 01:01:15,421
our media relations, anyone who
writes or speaks about this topic,

760
01:01:15,588 --> 01:01:17,924
you all are a part of this mission
of pushing us forward

761
01:01:18,091 --> 01:01:19,676
because more visibility,

762
01:01:19,842 --> 01:01:23,096
more representation is
only gonna make us better

763
01:01:23,262 --> 01:01:26,683
and create more opportunities
for us in the future.

764
01:01:28,559 --> 01:01:30,603
WE’RE COMING FOR YOU

765
01:01:30,603 --> 01:01:33,481
YOU DON’T WANT TO
MESS WITH A WINNER

766
01:01:33,856 --> 01:01:36,609
ICE SO COLD
MAKE YOU SHIVER

767
01:01:37,151 --> 01:01:40,113
YOU’RE LOOKING AT A
COLD BLOODED KILLER

768
01:01:40,822 --> 01:01:41,989
WE’RE COMING FOR YA

769
01:01:42,490 --> 01:01:43,783
IT’S GOING DOWN

770
01:01:57,547 --> 01:01:58,548
Well good afternoon,

771
01:01:58,715 --> 01:02:01,008
and welcome to Port Arthur Stadium

772
01:02:01,175 --> 01:02:03,094
in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada,

773
01:02:03,261 --> 01:02:05,012
as we get set to begin

774
01:02:05,179 --> 01:02:08,725
the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup.

775
01:02:16,232 --> 01:02:18,067
Four days before I
left for Thunder Bay,

776
01:02:18,234 --> 01:02:21,571
we were working a pretty
high profile fire in our area,

777
01:02:21,738 --> 01:02:23,406
and the pressure was on, for sure.

778
01:02:23,656 --> 01:02:27,994
And I was hosing, and
I fell into an ash pit of hot rocks-

779
01:02:28,161 --> 01:02:30,705
luckily on my left side.
It wasn’t on my throwing arm.

780
01:02:31,289 --> 01:02:33,124
But, got some pretty
good burns on my hand

781
01:02:33,291 --> 01:02:35,585
that I’m dealing with, right now.

782
01:02:35,752 --> 01:02:39,255
Thankfully we have good trainers here
that are able to help me through that.

783
01:02:44,594 --> 01:02:47,180
This is literally two days
before she came here.

784
01:02:47,638 --> 01:02:52,185
So these burns are very,
very fresh. Risk of infection is high.

785
01:02:52,602 --> 01:02:54,854
- Thank you very much.
- You’re welcome.

786
01:02:55,855 --> 01:02:58,024
Definitely had some nerves
in there for looking at my hand,

787
01:02:58,191 --> 01:03:00,151
like, oh no, I might
not be able to swing a bat.

788
01:03:00,318 --> 01:03:02,695
But, pitching-wise, all good to go.

789
01:03:02,862 --> 01:03:05,364
Schroder, from Fruitvale,
British Columbia.

790
01:03:05,531 --> 01:03:07,784
There’s a strike. A pitch.

791
01:03:07,950 --> 01:03:10,286
High flyball, hit really well
to centerfield.

792
01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:14,373
Catterall’s going back.
She’s way back, and it’s gone!

793
01:03:14,540 --> 01:03:17,376
2-0 in the first.

794
01:03:17,543 --> 01:03:19,545
Go USA!

795
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,800
There’s a high chopper
off on contact.

796
01:03:24,801 --> 01:03:28,763
Canada’s able to get on the board,
and it’s a 2-1 game.

797
01:03:31,349 --> 01:03:35,812
Deep in the corner, in left field!
It’s a home run!

798
01:03:37,313 --> 01:03:42,151
Home run for the United States,
and a disaster for Canada.

799
01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:45,988
Pluta is gonna make a trip
out to the mound.

800
01:03:46,405 --> 01:03:49,659
Nice hand for Schroder from
these fans in Thunder Bay.

801
01:03:49,826 --> 01:03:52,829
Not the outing she woulda
hoped for on this stage.

802
01:03:58,292 --> 01:04:01,254
And Alex Hugo, over to first.

803
01:04:01,462 --> 01:04:05,508
That’s the ball game.
And a 13-4 victory.

804
01:04:05,842 --> 01:04:08,678
The US, this year,
to my eyes, at least, is

805
01:04:08,845 --> 01:04:10,471
the best-looking ball club here.

806
01:04:10,638 --> 01:04:13,683
It was a team win.
Everybody contributed to it.

807
01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:16,394
I think they do a really good job
of coming together, playing well,

808
01:04:16,561 --> 01:04:18,437
and each of them
contributing to the game.

809
01:04:19,272 --> 01:04:22,441
It’s hard, but that’s just the
way it goes at big events like this.

810
01:04:22,608 --> 01:04:24,777
But, nevertheless,
we brought the energy to every game

811
01:04:24,944 --> 01:04:26,237
and we brought pride to every game.

812
01:04:26,404 --> 01:04:29,282
And I think that’s
a huge piece for us.

813
01:04:29,448 --> 01:04:32,159
We got three games to
win to leave here with the medal.

814
01:04:32,326 --> 01:04:33,703
We’re not leaving
here empty-handed.

815
01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:35,037
We’re leaving here with
a bronze medal.

816
01:04:35,204 --> 01:04:37,874
Canada on three.
One, two, three! Canada!

817
01:05:12,325 --> 01:05:13,743
Unfortunately it was a forfeit.

818
01:05:13,910 --> 01:05:15,745
We like to win with effort.

819
01:05:15,912 --> 01:05:19,373
So, it is a win in the books,
but we were excited to play.

820
01:05:19,540 --> 01:05:21,918
We’re very excited to get
going with this event.

821
01:05:57,787 --> 01:05:59,956
One, two, three! USA!

822
01:06:00,539 --> 01:06:04,210
And a big game today for the
United States against Chinese Taipei.

823
01:06:04,377 --> 01:06:06,253
The United States trying
to punch a ticket to

824
01:06:06,420 --> 01:06:08,297
the World Championship
Final on Saturday.

825
01:06:08,464 --> 01:06:10,049
They do that with a win.

826
01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:14,804
And there’s a high flyball
to centerfield.

827
01:06:14,971 --> 01:06:17,306
That’s gonna be deep
enough to score a run.

828
01:06:17,473 --> 01:06:19,976
1-0, the United States on top.

829
01:06:21,394 --> 01:06:24,647
Albayati swings, ground ball.
Up the middle, into centerfield.

830
01:06:24,814 --> 01:06:26,148
That score is one.

831
01:06:29,402 --> 01:06:33,239
Ashton Lansdell lifts it over
the leaping third baseman,

832
01:06:33,406 --> 01:06:35,366
headed towards the corner,
off the wall.

833
01:06:35,533 --> 01:06:37,493
Lansdell digging for second.

834
01:06:37,660 --> 01:06:40,538
You know she’s not going in,
standing up.

835
01:06:42,540 --> 01:06:45,292
And that’s headed down,
in left centerfield.

836
01:06:45,459 --> 01:06:48,421
Not only a hit, it’ll drive in a pair.

837
01:06:49,046 --> 01:06:51,465
And that is the ball game.

838
01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:57,638
And now we know what the
World Championship Final will be

839
01:06:57,805 --> 01:06:59,682
on Saturday afternoon.

840
01:06:59,849 --> 01:07:02,685
It’ll be the United States and Japan.

841
01:07:28,044 --> 01:07:30,046
So as we set the scenario,

842
01:07:30,212 --> 01:07:33,340
the host nation, Canada,
will entertain Venezuela.

843
01:07:33,507 --> 01:07:37,094
If Canada wins here,
they’ll solidify their spot in third

844
01:07:37,261 --> 01:07:38,888
and will play for the bronze.

845
01:07:39,889 --> 01:07:42,058
That one’s lifted up
deep to right field,

846
01:07:42,224 --> 01:07:46,729
and I kid you not,
that was a grand slam!

847
01:07:46,896 --> 01:07:50,483
They will play for the bronze medal.

848
01:07:58,199 --> 01:08:01,494
A huge game between
Mexico and Venezuela.

849
01:08:01,660 --> 01:08:04,371
The winner of this game
will go on to face Canada

850
01:08:04,538 --> 01:08:07,625
in the bronze medal game on Saturday.

851
01:08:09,502 --> 01:08:11,837
And in the air to right field.

852
01:08:12,004 --> 01:08:16,092
A great jump, what a dive!
But it gets past Arciniega.

853
01:08:16,258 --> 01:08:19,762
And Mexico will in fact take a 1-0 lead.

854
01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:23,808
And it’s in the air,
right centerfield. Moving back,

855
01:08:23,974 --> 01:08:26,352
diving- it’s off the glove
of Valenzuela!

856
01:08:26,519 --> 01:08:28,020
That will tie the game!

857
01:08:28,187 --> 01:08:30,564
Here we are in the eighth,
and here’s a flyball

858
01:08:30,731 --> 01:08:33,526
and this’ll test the
arm of Mariana Natera.

859
01:08:33,692 --> 01:08:36,112
She makes the catch.
Here’s the throw.

860
01:08:36,529 --> 01:08:41,075
The relay to the plate, on the wrong
side of it, they reclaim the lead.

861
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:48,124
Flyball, right centerfield,
well-hit. Valenzuela.

862
01:08:48,541 --> 01:08:50,292
That’s the ball game!

863
01:08:50,876 --> 01:08:54,296
Mexico will advance and
play for the bronze medal

864
01:08:54,463 --> 01:08:56,966
against Canada on Saturday morning,

865
01:08:57,133 --> 01:09:01,345
as they hold on in the thriller,
3-2, over Venezuela.

866
01:09:29,748 --> 01:09:34,753
We start Day Five with a doozy.
United States and Japan.

867
01:09:35,796 --> 01:09:38,174
So much intrigue in this matchup,

868
01:09:38,340 --> 01:09:41,594
not the least of which, the fact that
these two teams will play again

869
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,013
on Saturday for the
World Championship.

870
01:09:44,180 --> 01:09:46,807
This is a preview of
the gold medal game.

871
01:09:47,766 --> 01:09:49,435
We’re not taking it easy, at all.

872
01:09:49,602 --> 01:09:51,061
We wanna leave a lasting impression

873
01:09:51,228 --> 01:09:53,439
so a team doesn’t wanna
ever face us again.

874
01:09:53,606 --> 01:09:55,941
We want them to know that
that gold medal game is going to be

875
01:09:56,108 --> 01:09:57,568
a difficult game for them.

876
01:09:57,735 --> 01:10:01,614
And there is one of the great stars
of women’s baseball, Ayami Sato.

877
01:10:01,780 --> 01:10:06,035
She’s been a part of five of the
six straight world championships

878
01:10:06,202 --> 01:10:09,580
for her country. Not only are they
winning world championships,

879
01:10:09,747 --> 01:10:11,332
they’re just not losing games.

880
01:10:11,498 --> 01:10:16,462
The last time Japan lost a game in
World Cup competition was 2012.

881
01:10:16,629 --> 01:10:21,217
Will today be the day that somebody
finally gets the best of a Japan team?

882
01:10:29,141 --> 01:10:33,646
Ground ball, left side. Picked up at
short, Iwami’s throw.

883
01:10:33,812 --> 01:10:36,065
You’re not gonna get Whitmore
with that speed.

884
01:10:37,733 --> 01:10:39,401
Pop up here off the batter, Schaber.

885
01:10:39,568 --> 01:10:42,780
Falling fast and past
the dive of Iwami.

886
01:10:42,947 --> 01:10:45,532
Whitmore on the way to third,
and she’s in with a slide.

887
01:10:46,242 --> 01:10:49,078
Break-even pitch from Sato.
It’s high in the air.

888
01:10:49,245 --> 01:10:52,915
That’s deep to left field.
Albayati got ahold of it!

889
01:10:53,082 --> 01:10:56,252
And the United States has a 3-0 lead!

890
01:11:04,093 --> 01:11:06,178
That’s a line drive,
into right centerfield.

891
01:11:06,345 --> 01:11:10,266
Might get Japan on the board.
Whitmore’s throw cut off.

892
01:11:10,683 --> 01:11:12,893
And we’ve got a 3-1 game.

893
01:11:16,230 --> 01:11:19,858
Left centerfield. Whitmore
has it go off of her glove.

894
01:11:20,025 --> 01:11:22,278
And we’ll have a tie game!

895
01:11:23,445 --> 01:11:25,948
It’s 3-3 in the bottom of the sixth.

896
01:11:26,323 --> 01:11:29,285
0-2 pitch. Up the middle.

897
01:11:29,451 --> 01:11:32,121
Perez knocks it down,
throws from her knees.

898
01:11:32,288 --> 01:11:36,375
Ryan on the hub.
We’re goin’ to extras!

899
01:11:38,460 --> 01:11:40,129
Strike two.

900
01:11:42,715 --> 01:11:46,385
Oh, no. I don’t think
the pitch counted.

901
01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:49,972
A balk has been called at
the top of the eighth inning

902
01:11:50,139 --> 01:11:52,308
and the bases loaded.

903
01:11:53,309 --> 01:11:56,312
It is 4-3, the United
States is in front.

904
01:11:57,313 --> 01:11:58,480
One-strike pitch.

905
01:11:58,647 --> 01:12:00,566
Popped up. Foul ground.

906
01:12:00,733 --> 01:12:04,737
Ryan under it, makes the catch,
crashes into the wall.

907
01:12:04,903 --> 01:12:06,322
Two outs.

908
01:12:11,827 --> 01:12:16,081
Swing and a miss! And The United States
will finish the opening round

909
01:12:16,248 --> 01:12:18,167
of this tournament 5-0.

910
01:12:18,334 --> 01:12:21,170
The United States hands
Japan its first loss

911
01:12:21,337 --> 01:12:24,423
in World Cup competition since 2012.

912
01:12:24,757 --> 01:12:28,302
And we’ll do it all over
again on Saturday

913
01:12:28,469 --> 01:12:31,180
when these two teams
take one another on

914
01:12:31,347 --> 01:12:34,433
in the World Championship Final.

915
01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:43,650
Women’s baseball has an interesting
dynamic because essentially,

916
01:12:43,817 --> 01:12:48,030
we’re all pushing to get our sport
out there and build our sport up.

917
01:12:48,989 --> 01:12:50,783
USA wants to beat the crap out
of us every game.

918
01:12:50,949 --> 01:12:52,659
We wanna beat the crap out
of USA every game.

919
01:12:52,826 --> 01:12:56,538
But there’s a lot of players on that team
that I have utmost respect for,

920
01:12:56,705 --> 01:12:58,207
for what they’re doing
for women’s baseball.

921
01:12:58,374 --> 01:13:00,542
To represent something
that’s bigger than ourselves--

922
01:13:00,709 --> 01:13:03,796
We’re representing not
only our country,

923
01:13:03,962 --> 01:13:08,217
but we’re representing women
in the game and women in sports.

924
01:13:08,384 --> 01:13:12,388
And that’s something really,
really powerful to hold onto.

925
01:16:36,300 --> 01:16:39,845
The bigger story going on is just the
growth of women’s baseball, right?

926
01:16:40,012 --> 01:16:44,057
And to see how many countries
have elevated their level of play,

927
01:16:44,224 --> 01:16:45,434
and gotten better.

928
01:16:45,601 --> 01:16:48,228
To see how many new countries
are playing baseball.

929
01:16:48,395 --> 01:16:51,023
We have baseball in Uganda, now.

930
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:53,984
It’s a very encouraging thing
to see the growth of the game

931
01:16:54,151 --> 01:16:56,069
at the rate that it’s been going.

932
01:17:06,204 --> 01:17:09,166
ADONAI HOUSE

933
01:17:20,344 --> 01:17:23,555
TOURIST VEHICLE

934
01:17:25,474 --> 01:17:26,475
Meggie!

935
01:17:26,642 --> 01:17:27,809
How are you?

936
01:17:27,976 --> 01:17:30,812
I remember Meggie had
talked to me about

937
01:17:30,979 --> 01:17:33,565
how this trip to Uganda
was coming up.

938
01:17:33,732 --> 01:17:35,067
- Welcome.
- Thank you.

939
01:17:35,233 --> 01:17:38,654
- My name’s Kelsie.
- Kelsie. Sarah. You’re welcome.

940
01:17:39,780 --> 01:17:42,032
She was telling me the background
of it, and everything.

941
01:17:42,199 --> 01:17:43,867
And I was like, “Oh, yeah.
That would be so cool.”

942
01:17:44,034 --> 01:17:45,410
”I would love to do it.”

943
01:17:45,577 --> 01:17:49,081
And, I was kind of in this
traveling mindset at the time.

944
01:17:50,582 --> 01:17:55,045
Finally got here and I don’t
even know what to expect.

945
01:18:33,458 --> 01:18:34,793
- I’m Meggie.
- I’m Martin.

946
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:35,961
Nice to meet you.

947
01:18:36,128 --> 01:18:37,754
- Yeah. How are you?
- Good.

948
01:18:38,004 --> 01:18:40,716
Hi. Kelsie. Good to
meet you. Kelsie.

949
01:18:40,882 --> 01:18:41,925
Ashton.

950
01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:17,586
So we are going to make two lines

951
01:19:20,756 --> 01:19:22,132
to the fence.

952
01:19:27,846 --> 01:19:29,181
Two-two.

953
01:19:32,392 --> 01:19:33,769
- Are we set?
- Yeah.

954
01:19:33,935 --> 01:19:35,937
We are going for five times, yeah?

955
01:22:36,660 --> 01:22:38,203
We have a runner at second.

956
01:22:38,370 --> 01:22:40,789
So, you watch her come in, eh?

957
01:22:40,956 --> 01:22:45,460
Not now. You watch the runner
then you run round the base.

958
01:23:51,609 --> 01:23:55,739
Lillian is great. She’s amazing
and she really wants to

959
01:23:55,905 --> 01:23:57,490
just play this game and compete.

960
01:23:57,657 --> 01:24:00,368
Female baseball players who are moms are

961
01:24:00,535 --> 01:24:02,454
some of the most bad-ass
women I’ve ever met.

962
01:24:02,620 --> 01:24:05,874
There’s another level called
mom strength, and they have it.

963
01:24:06,041 --> 01:24:10,045
She is an inspiration to all these
kids ‘cause she’s one of them.

964
01:24:24,476 --> 01:24:26,895
- Super, super high?
- Yes!

965
01:24:27,062 --> 01:24:29,064
- Super high?
- Yes!

966
01:24:29,481 --> 01:24:30,482
Oh!

967
01:24:39,908 --> 01:24:41,701
Watch, I’ll sink the pitch, right?

968
01:24:41,993 --> 01:24:43,661
So when I catch it,

969
01:24:44,079 --> 01:24:47,082
target’s low, stick it. Right?

970
01:24:47,248 --> 01:24:48,625
And the seams go up.

971
01:24:49,459 --> 01:24:52,504
Now your- your fingertips
match the seams right there.

972
01:24:52,962 --> 01:24:54,923
So try throwing it like that. Yeah.

973
01:24:55,507 --> 01:24:58,676
Yeah! Who’s next? Who’s next?

974
01:24:58,843 --> 01:25:01,763
So whoever’s up,
you’re gonna go in the box.

975
01:25:01,930 --> 01:25:04,390
Whoever’s on deck,
I want you to visualize.

976
01:25:04,557 --> 01:25:08,186
I want you to close your eyes,
visualize yourself hitting the ball hard.

977
01:25:08,353 --> 01:25:10,355
Okay? Putting the ball in play.

978
01:25:10,522 --> 01:25:12,148
That’s the mental side
of the game. Okay?

979
01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:15,110
Go-go-go!

980
01:25:16,569 --> 01:25:17,570
Get there.

981
01:25:18,113 --> 01:25:19,280
- Oh!
- Oh.

982
01:25:19,447 --> 01:25:20,448
Go-go-go!

983
01:25:22,867 --> 01:25:24,744
Good job, ladies! Good job!

984
01:25:28,331 --> 01:25:30,125
Oh, man.

985
01:25:30,291 --> 01:25:33,545
The spirit of the Ugandan people,
it just warms your heart.

986
01:25:33,711 --> 01:25:37,132
Going to Uganda was about baseball,
and this little league team.

987
01:25:37,298 --> 01:25:39,217
But, when I got there,

988
01:25:39,384 --> 01:25:42,720
I understood that it was so
much more than baseball.

989
01:25:42,887 --> 01:25:46,141
I saw the boys play, and I
saw their talent. And it’s like, wow.

990
01:25:46,349 --> 01:25:49,394
You can see the difference
between the natural athleticism

991
01:25:49,561 --> 01:25:52,730
and the young boys that’s
picking up baseball,

992
01:25:52,897 --> 01:25:56,151
versus these girls getting
training for a whole year.

993
01:25:56,317 --> 01:25:58,820
I’m like, “She throws better than him.”

994
01:25:58,987 --> 01:26:01,990
Once I saw it happen,
not just one girl, not just two,

995
01:26:02,157 --> 01:26:06,035
but everybody in line, I’m like,
okay, they’re really playing over here.

996
01:26:06,202 --> 01:26:07,412
We have the bat.

997
01:26:07,579 --> 01:26:09,164
Sometimes they have gloves.

998
01:26:09,581 --> 01:26:11,416
They have a ball.
Sometimes they have cleats.

999
01:26:11,583 --> 01:26:13,168
Sometimes they just
run around barefoot.

1000
01:26:13,334 --> 01:26:15,170
They love the game of baseball.

1001
01:26:15,336 --> 01:26:18,882
Can Uganda grow to compete
at a World Baseball Cup level?

1002
01:26:19,048 --> 01:26:22,760
If you give these girls proper
resources, yeah, for sure.

1003
01:26:22,927 --> 01:26:23,928
No doubt about it.

1004
01:26:24,095 --> 01:26:26,431
“We are the best!”

1005
01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:27,849
Wow. Where’d you find this?

1006
01:26:28,016 --> 01:26:30,018
Somebody had footage of this.

1007
01:26:30,185 --> 01:26:33,104
“1-2, 1-2, and Uganda Baseball
comes through.”

1008
01:26:33,271 --> 01:26:34,439
“Big Diddly in the house.”

1009
01:26:34,606 --> 01:26:36,941
”And so it’s me doing
everything casually.“

1010
01:26:37,108 --> 01:26:38,651
”Because we don’t like to
play and get down,”

1011
01:26:38,818 --> 01:26:40,653
“Uganda and Nsambia, the big towns.”

1012
01:26:40,862 --> 01:26:42,280
”I’m done. We get it down.”

1013
01:26:42,447 --> 01:26:45,033
”We get it to where I stand up
and push it on. And that’s youth.”

1014
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,452
”And when the ball leave the field,
I’m gonna clown.”

1015
01:26:47,619 --> 01:26:49,329
”Lob down a baseline,
throw a pound.”

1016
01:26:49,495 --> 01:26:51,956
”To the sky up high, to my
fans, we got a plan.”

1017
01:26:52,123 --> 01:26:54,125
”Everybody just say,
baseball, baseball.”

1018
01:26:54,292 --> 01:26:56,002
”Everybody say, baseball, baseball.”

1019
01:26:56,169 --> 01:26:57,670
Inside corner. Inside corner.

1020
01:27:21,236 --> 01:27:23,821
I have no idea what to expect,
the level of play

1021
01:27:23,988 --> 01:27:25,073
but I’m very impressed.

1022
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:28,701
You can see that they want to learn,
and they want to be better.

1023
01:27:30,245 --> 01:27:32,914
A lot of those kids
who are crushing it,

1024
01:27:33,081 --> 01:27:35,500
the first time playing
baseball was in 2019.

1025
01:27:35,667 --> 01:27:37,252
They’ve put in a lot of work.

1026
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:43,091
We’re also giving them this idea
and vision of having their own team.

1027
01:27:43,258 --> 01:27:45,677
Be able to say, we want
you to come play us.

1028
01:27:45,843 --> 01:27:49,013
And then for most of the girls,
it’s like a lightbulb moment.

1029
01:27:49,264 --> 01:27:51,266
Supposed to look like this!
Boom-boom!

1030
01:27:51,432 --> 01:27:52,684
Boom-boom! Boom-boom!

1031
01:27:52,850 --> 01:27:54,894
- There we go.
- There we go.

1032
01:28:00,650 --> 01:28:05,238
You can tell which girls take it
serious and they really want to learn.

1033
01:28:08,783 --> 01:28:12,745
I get so excited when I see
one that has such raw talent.

1034
01:28:14,455 --> 01:28:17,292
Three? Four? Yeah, come on,
I like it. Let’s go.

1035
01:28:17,458 --> 01:28:19,294
Oh, that’s so cute.

1036
01:28:20,795 --> 01:28:23,715
- Number one! Out.
- Out.

1037
01:28:23,881 --> 01:28:25,967
- Number two!
- Defense!

1038
01:28:26,134 --> 01:28:28,303
- Number three!
-!

1039
01:28:30,305 --> 01:28:35,143
Here we have all time for the
ball to go through.

1040
01:28:56,164 --> 01:28:58,207
Yes. You can do it! You can do it!

1041
01:29:19,562 --> 01:29:21,397
It’s why the game is more
than just a game.

1042
01:29:21,564 --> 01:29:26,527
It is to be able to draw in all
those other young girls around

1043
01:29:26,861 --> 01:29:29,364
in the game, and who
love it, and to just-

1044
01:29:29,530 --> 01:29:31,366
just to be someone for them

1045
01:29:31,532 --> 01:29:34,786
that they can look up to,
that can help inspire them.

1046
01:29:34,952 --> 01:29:39,415
When I was a young age, the baseball
players I looked up to were all guys.

1047
01:29:39,582 --> 01:29:42,377
Mike Mussina, Cal Ripken.

1048
01:29:42,543 --> 01:29:46,381
And for the girls to have other girls
to look up to, is something special.

1049
01:29:46,547 --> 01:29:47,799
Run! Run! Run!

1050
01:29:48,925 --> 01:29:53,054
When I was growing up, I wished that
I had somewhere in a small town

1051
01:29:53,221 --> 01:29:56,391
like this where I could
play with other girls.

1052
01:29:56,849 --> 01:30:01,854
She always supports me and says,
you got a big swing and you got this.

1053
01:30:02,772 --> 01:30:04,774
They’re hitting the ball better
than they usually do,

1054
01:30:04,941 --> 01:30:06,234
so that shows improvement.

1055
01:30:06,401 --> 01:30:08,236
Good job. Good job. Good huss.

1056
01:30:08,403 --> 01:30:11,447
Can’t really send them off to
an all-women’s program.

1057
01:30:11,614 --> 01:30:13,699
But hopefully we can build
them up to the point

1058
01:30:13,866 --> 01:30:16,411
where they love the game so
much that they wanna keep playing

1059
01:30:16,577 --> 01:30:18,496
and they can go into
T-ball with the boys,

1060
01:30:18,663 --> 01:30:20,456
they can go into Little League
with the boys.

1061
01:30:21,165 --> 01:30:24,127
I just wanna have them
having fun, playing baseball,

1062
01:30:24,293 --> 01:30:26,087
and hopefully that’ll stick with them.

1063
01:30:26,421 --> 01:30:30,049
I think it’s fun and
I wanna do more of it,

1064
01:30:30,216 --> 01:30:32,218
a lot more. I wanna be like Alli.

1065
01:30:32,385 --> 01:30:34,178
Good game. Good game.

1066
01:31:02,039 --> 01:31:06,210
When I see younger girls
in the stands, it’s awesome.

1067
01:31:06,377 --> 01:31:08,880
It’s hard to resist them. You know?

1068
01:31:09,046 --> 01:31:11,841
‘Cause you’re like, wow
they’re coming here for me,

1069
01:31:12,008 --> 01:31:13,468
they wanna support me

1070
01:31:13,634 --> 01:31:17,305
and they want to have a picture
with me, the little things like that.

1071
01:31:17,472 --> 01:31:18,723
It means a lot.

1072
01:31:19,891 --> 01:31:24,770
I think if I had seen an older woman
playing baseball when I was younger,

1073
01:31:24,937 --> 01:31:29,484
it would’ve given me hope that,
oh, her future that she has is-

1074
01:31:29,650 --> 01:31:31,235
would be possible for me.

1075
01:31:31,402 --> 01:31:34,572
I wanna be what I didn’t have.

1076
01:31:49,712 --> 01:31:50,880
Woo!

1077
01:31:54,342 --> 01:31:55,801
MEXICO

1078
01:32:12,818 --> 01:32:16,197
Early on, I would like to get things
moving, just to put pressure on them.

1079
01:32:16,364 --> 01:32:17,740
But I don’t wanna run in to outs.

1080
01:32:17,907 --> 01:32:21,494
Okay, okay! We gotta find a
way to score runs.

1081
01:32:22,954 --> 01:32:24,956
We’re gonna compete
for our first medal.

1082
01:32:25,122 --> 01:32:26,374
It’s been a process.

1083
01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:30,836
Six years ago we started this, hoping to
get to where we are right now.

1084
01:32:31,003 --> 01:32:32,380
And we need to play perfect.

1085
01:32:32,547 --> 01:32:35,550
Canada’s a tough team.
They hit, they pitch.

1086
01:32:35,716 --> 01:32:37,552
They’re very well rounded.

1087
01:32:37,718 --> 01:32:41,764
And I think we’re ready. So hopefully
we can come in on top.

1088
01:32:47,186 --> 01:32:50,481
Well, good morning, and welcome once
again to Port Arthur Stadium

1089
01:32:50,648 --> 01:32:54,235
in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
for the bronze medal game

1090
01:32:54,402 --> 01:32:56,654
at this WBSC Women’s
Baseball World Cup

1091
01:32:56,821 --> 01:32:59,240
between Canada and Mexico.

1092
01:32:59,407 --> 01:33:02,577
And the winner of this one takes
home the bronze medal.

1093
01:33:02,743 --> 01:33:06,414
We begin with strike one
to Benitez, the shortstop.

1094
01:33:08,749 --> 01:33:10,668
And Benitez pops it up.

1095
01:33:10,835 --> 01:33:13,838
Ross, from behind the dish,
sprinting towards the dugout,

1096
01:33:14,005 --> 01:33:16,591
and she makes the diving grab!

1097
01:33:19,010 --> 01:33:22,013
Ground ball, left side,
right at Zoe Hicks.

1098
01:33:22,179 --> 01:33:26,601
Recovers, and goes to first for
the out that retires the side.

1099
01:33:27,018 --> 01:33:29,103
And she’ll take a look at strike three.

1100
01:33:29,270 --> 01:33:31,314
Heads up, Tess!

1101
01:33:33,608 --> 01:33:35,443
Look out! First pitch swinging.

1102
01:33:35,610 --> 01:33:38,821
This ball’s deep to
left field, and it’s gone!

1103
01:33:46,704 --> 01:33:49,832
Caterall dives, and she
comes up with it.

1104
01:33:52,501 --> 01:33:54,378
Tying run scores.

1105
01:34:04,138 --> 01:34:07,642
And Canada now has a 3-1 lead.

1106
01:34:10,061 --> 01:34:12,688
Canada - 4, Mexico - 1.

1107
01:34:14,106 --> 01:34:16,901
High drama at Port Arthur Stadium.

1108
01:34:17,068 --> 01:34:19,320
A 4-1 lead for Canada.

1109
01:34:20,112 --> 01:34:23,574
Just one out left for Canada
to collect the bronze.

1110
01:34:24,659 --> 01:34:26,994
Ground ball. In the hole,
gonna be a tough play.

1111
01:34:27,161 --> 01:34:31,749
Valcke dives, pops up, and
throws to second as the run scores.

1112
01:34:37,505 --> 01:34:38,673
0-1.

1113
01:34:39,173 --> 01:34:41,926
Ground ball softly hit to third.
Hicks has it.

1114
01:34:42,093 --> 01:34:46,389
Stomps on the bag and
it’s a bronze medal win for Canada!

1115
01:35:18,921 --> 01:35:21,924
An incredible battle, as we
knew it would be against Japan,

1116
01:35:22,091 --> 01:35:24,719
and they came out with Sato,
and we knew it’d be a tough game.

1117
01:35:24,885 --> 01:35:27,722
But it also showed us that
they were here to win, too.

1118
01:35:27,888 --> 01:35:29,557
So, and I like it. I like
when people play to win.

1119
01:35:29,724 --> 01:35:31,183
I like when they bring
their best towards us,

1120
01:35:31,350 --> 01:35:33,728
‘cause we’re gonna bring our
best. The game started tight,

1121
01:35:33,894 --> 01:35:36,147
but Jamie had
command of the zone

1122
01:35:36,313 --> 01:35:37,732
and really kept their
hitters off balance.

1123
01:35:37,898 --> 01:35:40,735
Sato does a really good job
of mixing pitches

1124
01:35:40,901 --> 01:35:43,571
and keeping our hitters
off balance, right?

1125
01:35:43,738 --> 01:35:47,992
I think that it’s a trick that won’t work,
necessarily, on us a long time.

1126
01:35:48,159 --> 01:35:50,161
So I’m excited for Saturday
and our hitters to know

1127
01:35:50,327 --> 01:35:52,413
what to expect from a team like Japan.

1128
01:36:46,801 --> 01:36:50,221
Well good afternoon and welcome
to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

1129
01:36:50,387 --> 01:36:55,059
for the World Championship of the
WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup.

1130
01:36:55,226 --> 01:36:57,228
It’s the United States and Japan,

1131
01:36:57,394 --> 01:36:59,814
the undisputed world
number one winners of

1132
01:36:59,980 --> 01:37:01,774
six straight Women’s World Cups.

1133
01:37:03,442 --> 01:37:08,447
And Jill Albayati, it’ll be her
first start of the tournament.

1134
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:12,076
It is slapped into right field.

1135
01:37:14,745 --> 01:37:17,832
What a throw from Pichardo
but she airmails Benites,

1136
01:37:17,998 --> 01:37:20,835
and that’ll allow the game’s
first run to score.

1137
01:37:23,170 --> 01:37:27,091
Line drive, fair ball.
They’re gonna send a runner.

1138
01:37:27,258 --> 01:37:29,093
Here comes the throw
from Martinez.

1139
01:37:29,260 --> 01:37:32,429
Cut off, no relay! 2-0, Japan.

1140
01:37:37,017 --> 01:37:39,770
And here’s a ball,
belted deep to right field.

1141
01:37:39,937 --> 01:37:42,314
That’s way back and it’s gone!

1142
01:37:43,274 --> 01:37:48,279
Two-run homer, Yuki Kawabata
scores, helping Japan in the third.

1143
01:37:49,738 --> 01:37:54,535
This is probably gonna be the
most adversity that the US has faced.

1144
01:37:56,287 --> 01:37:58,873
Shot to third, charged by Deguchi.

1145
01:37:59,039 --> 01:38:03,669
Over to first. Kawabata did not
get down, and a run was scored.

1146
01:38:03,836 --> 01:38:06,422
There’s the one back the US needed.

1147
01:38:09,216 --> 01:38:10,968
Pichardo’s 1-1.

1148
01:38:11,135 --> 01:38:13,554
It’s a bunt with the bases loaded.

1149
01:38:13,721 --> 01:38:15,306
5-1, Japan.

1150
01:38:16,891 --> 01:38:18,267
It’s another bunt.

1151
01:38:18,434 --> 01:38:22,479
Fly infield, she goes home.
Safe! Japan pulling away.

1152
01:38:23,898 --> 01:38:26,191
Now a ball that hugs the
line, fair at first,

1153
01:38:26,984 --> 01:38:30,654
gets under the glove of Ryan,
and will bring in another run.

1154
01:38:35,326 --> 01:38:37,703
Hugo swinging, hits it
in the air to centerfield,

1155
01:38:37,870 --> 01:38:40,539
hits a long way to centerfield.
Miura’s there.

1156
01:38:40,706 --> 01:38:44,376
This ball is gone!
Hugo homers.

1157
01:38:44,919 --> 01:38:47,338
Here comes the United States.

1158
01:38:47,838 --> 01:38:51,926
The US needed something
and they got something.

1159
01:38:56,305 --> 01:38:58,974
Whitmore deposits it in left field.

1160
01:38:59,308 --> 01:39:01,685
And this is the inning
we’ve been waiting for.

1161
01:39:03,646 --> 01:39:05,272
Grounds this one into left field.

1162
01:39:05,481 --> 01:39:09,568
Three straight base runners to
start the inning for the United States.

1163
01:39:10,361 --> 01:39:12,363
Lansdell off the end of the bat.

1164
01:39:12,529 --> 01:39:15,950
Falling down, shallow center
field, it’s down for a hit.

1165
01:39:16,492 --> 01:39:19,453
Station to station. 11-5.

1166
01:39:20,454 --> 01:39:22,790
Ryan hits it right side.

1167
01:39:22,957 --> 01:39:25,501
Two hops. To first.

1168
01:39:25,668 --> 01:39:27,044
An 11-6 ball game.

1169
01:39:27,211 --> 01:39:28,504
USA!

1170
01:39:28,671 --> 01:39:31,215
Meggie Meidlinger on the
hill for the United States.

1171
01:39:31,382 --> 01:39:33,801
In the air to left field,
Albayati, charging,

1172
01:39:33,968 --> 01:39:35,803
makes the catch, on the move.

1173
01:39:35,970 --> 01:39:39,390
Japan, three outs away
from a seventh consecutive

1174
01:39:39,556 --> 01:39:42,142
Women’s World Cup championship.

1175
01:39:43,560 --> 01:39:46,855
And she swings and lines
it into centerfield.

1176
01:39:48,983 --> 01:39:52,236
A walk moves the tying run
into the on deck circle,

1177
01:39:52,403 --> 01:39:54,863
and it brings Alex Hugo to the plate.

1178
01:39:57,700 --> 01:40:00,619
Lansdell pops it up here,
back behind the plate.

1179
01:40:00,786 --> 01:40:01,996
Hanabusa gives chase.

1180
01:40:02,162 --> 01:40:05,165
Hanabusa, the catch!
And its seven straight,

1181
01:40:05,332 --> 01:40:09,128
Japan is still world champion!

1182
01:40:40,451 --> 01:40:42,453
I’m incredibly proud of
every single one of you guys.

1183
01:40:42,619 --> 01:40:45,039
Obviously this outcome
absolutely sucks right,

1184
01:40:45,205 --> 01:40:47,416
‘cause we worked so hard
for the last six years.

1185
01:40:47,583 --> 01:40:50,461
So now we keep building off of
this shit, ‘cause we’re not satisfied.

1186
01:40:50,627 --> 01:40:52,421
We are not okay with second place.

1187
01:40:52,588 --> 01:40:54,173
We will win this gold medal.

1188
01:40:54,339 --> 01:40:57,051
Whatever it takes to do,
we keep building off of it.

1189
01:40:57,217 --> 01:40:59,887
And so you continue to be
great examples for women in the game.

1190
01:41:00,054 --> 01:41:02,848
Keep pushing the people behind you,
‘cause there are people behind you

1191
01:41:03,015 --> 01:41:04,975
coming up that’re going to
push you to be better.

1192
01:41:05,142 --> 01:41:07,895
Take advantage of that.
You guys are incredible.

1193
01:41:08,062 --> 01:41:11,899
I love every one of you more
than you could ever know.

1194
01:41:12,066 --> 01:41:13,692
All we can do is better than next time.

1195
01:41:13,859 --> 01:41:15,819
Go back to work and come back strong.

1196
01:41:16,153 --> 01:41:18,072
Here we go, USA on three!
One, two, three!

1197
01:41:18,238 --> 01:41:19,573
USA!

1198
01:41:24,787 --> 01:41:28,415
Having this World Cup, in general,
elevates the sport already.

1199
01:41:28,582 --> 01:41:30,834
And I know there’s a lot of people
back home in the US,

1200
01:41:31,001 --> 01:41:34,088
and most likely all the other
countries, too, just seeing that

1201
01:41:34,254 --> 01:41:37,508
there is a stage for women to
play baseball competitively.

1202
01:41:37,674 --> 01:41:41,095
And that’s what just happened
today and this whole, entire week.

1203
01:41:41,970 --> 01:41:45,474
The level of play at this World Cup
was higher than the one in 2018,

1204
01:41:45,641 --> 01:41:47,518
so that’s a good trajectory
for women’s baseball.

1205
01:41:47,684 --> 01:41:50,479
I think that it’s only gonna
keep getting more competitive.

1206
01:41:50,646 --> 01:41:52,606
I think it’s something for
any little girl to look up to.

1207
01:41:52,773 --> 01:41:55,526
Playing for your country is a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

1208
01:41:55,692 --> 01:41:58,570
And having that in women’s
baseball is really special.

1209
01:42:52,082 --> 01:42:53,584
When I was your age,

1210
01:42:54,293 --> 01:42:58,088
I actually was often
mistaken for as a boy.

1211
01:42:59,089 --> 01:43:01,717
And I played baseball.
I played baseball since T-ball.

1212
01:43:02,092 --> 01:43:04,469
One season, I got a new coach,

1213
01:43:04,636 --> 01:43:08,599
and he said that I should quit
baseball because I’m a girl.

1214
01:43:08,765 --> 01:43:12,019
And that was the moment that
I decided I would play forever.

1215
01:43:12,186 --> 01:43:15,814
I was the first woman to play at
my high school in the state of Ohio.

1216
01:43:15,981 --> 01:43:17,941
To me, playing Division One
Baseball wasn’t an option.

1217
01:43:18,108 --> 01:43:20,611
To you, it is a possibility.

1218
01:43:28,535 --> 01:43:29,870
Great game. Great game. Great game.

1219
01:43:30,037 --> 01:43:33,415
I think it’s very important for
the little girl that plays Little League,

1220
01:43:33,582 --> 01:43:35,876
the little girl that plays with her
all-boys team in high school,

1221
01:43:36,043 --> 01:43:40,130
and for her to see girls, to see
women having success in this game,

1222
01:43:40,297 --> 01:43:41,715
so that she knows
there’s a place for her,

1223
01:43:41,882 --> 01:43:45,886
that her dream is not crazy,
that it is not impossible,

1224
01:43:46,053 --> 01:43:47,721
that she does have a route to take.

1225
01:43:47,888 --> 01:43:51,058
We just need to make sure that
girls are getting a chance to play today

1226
01:43:51,225 --> 01:43:54,686
so that tomorrow they have a
chance to represent their countries.

1227
01:43:58,815 --> 01:44:01,652
We all care about the game,
we have so much passion and love,

1228
01:44:01,818 --> 01:44:04,529
for wanting to grow it.

1229
01:44:04,696 --> 01:44:08,492
And at the end of the day,
just play- do what we love, right?

1230
01:44:08,659 --> 01:44:10,160
Yeah, the game that we love

1231
01:44:10,327 --> 01:44:12,663
- and that which we will always love.
- 100%, yeah.

1232
01:44:12,829 --> 01:44:14,706
And that’s why we have to
have A League of Our Own again,

1233
01:44:14,957 --> 01:44:19,962
so we can have all the women
be able to play the game that they love,

1234
01:44:20,212 --> 01:44:24,508
and to show the world that
the women can play baseball.

1235
01:44:24,675 --> 01:44:28,262
And we gotta do it while I’m
still on this side of the grass,

1236
01:44:28,428 --> 01:44:31,682
and so I can be there to
throw out the first pitch.

1237
01:44:47,739 --> 01:44:48,949
- Morning.
- What’s up. Morning.

1238
01:44:49,116 --> 01:44:50,617
- How’s it goin’?
- Not too bad.

1239
01:44:50,784 --> 01:44:52,119
Lotta people here last night.

1240
01:44:52,286 --> 01:44:54,538
Yeah. It was definitely a packed
crowd here last night.

1241
01:44:54,705 --> 01:44:58,125
Yeah, it was cool to see Canadians
out supporting women’s baseball.

1242
01:44:58,292 --> 01:45:00,419
Oh look, look who it is.

1243
01:45:00,585 --> 01:45:02,129
Brought a friend with you, too.

1244
01:45:03,839 --> 01:45:07,134
- Hi, I’m Mariko. Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

1245
01:45:07,301 --> 01:45:11,388
I remember seeing you pitching in
2014 when I was 16 years old,

1246
01:45:11,555 --> 01:45:15,309
and now here you are again.
I don’t know, seeing you pitch

1247
01:45:15,475 --> 01:45:16,727
again is really cool.

1248
01:45:16,893 --> 01:45:19,730
And, how did it feel to be out
here after all that time

1249
01:45:19,896 --> 01:45:21,773
and everything like that?

1250
01:45:27,321 --> 01:45:28,322
I feel aged.

1251
01:45:29,448 --> 01:45:31,325
Fair. Fair.

1252
01:45:41,752 --> 01:45:44,338
So that because most of the
teammates, they used to say,

1253
01:45:44,504 --> 01:45:48,425
“I used to watch you as a little kid.”
So I feel really old.

1254
01:45:48,592 --> 01:45:50,802
And that’s my teammates
now, so I feel--

1255
01:45:51,970 --> 01:45:52,971
Yeah. I feel my age right now.

1256
01:45:53,555 --> 01:45:56,808
Facing you, I believe...

1257
01:45:57,142 --> 01:45:58,769
fastball, curveball, slider?

1258
01:45:59,269 --> 01:46:02,105
That’s what we had?
Fastball. Curveball.

1259
01:46:06,568 --> 01:46:08,195
- Slider.
- Slider?

1260
01:46:08,362 --> 01:46:10,781
And shoot? Shoot?

1261
01:46:10,947 --> 01:46:12,616
- A two-seam?
- Two-seam. Two-seam.

1262
01:46:12,783 --> 01:46:15,327
- And change up?
- I don’t think I saw-

1263
01:46:15,494 --> 01:46:16,787
Okay. Yeah, change up.

1264
01:46:19,706 --> 01:46:21,792
I think you threw me a slider.
I know you did.

1265
01:46:22,793 --> 01:46:25,962
You threw me a slider and a
curveball. I remember.

1266
01:46:26,129 --> 01:46:30,217
Your slider had a really good
late break. Almost like a cutter.

1267
01:46:31,802 --> 01:46:34,805
- You thought you hit but then it was--
- I got, honestly, all.

1268
01:46:39,476 --> 01:46:43,230
Yeah, you’re- don’t wanna lose, right?
So it’s like--

1269
01:46:43,397 --> 01:46:47,025
I got, curveball, curveball,
curveball, curveball, slider.

1270
01:46:50,404 --> 01:46:53,365
KEEP CHASING

1271
01:46:53,573 --> 01:46:55,409
YOUR DREAMS

1272
01:46:55,575 --> 01:46:57,744
DON’T EVER LET GO

1273
01:46:57,911 --> 01:47:00,080
DON’T EVER LET GO

1274
01:47:00,664 --> 01:47:02,791
KEEP CHASING

1275
01:47:02,916 --> 01:47:04,751
YOUR DREAMS

1276
01:47:04,793 --> 01:47:06,711
DON’T EVER LET GO

1277
01:47:07,045 --> 01:47:08,004
DON’T EVER LET

1278
01:47:08,004 --> 01:47:09,548
GIRL YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1279
01:47:09,548 --> 01:47:10,590
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL

1280
01:47:10,590 --> 01:47:11,758
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW

1281
01:47:11,758 --> 01:47:12,926
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1282
01:47:12,926 --> 01:47:14,177
YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1283
01:47:14,177 --> 01:47:15,220
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL

1284
01:47:15,220 --> 01:47:16,388
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW

1285
01:47:16,388 --> 01:47:17,514
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1286
01:47:17,514 --> 01:47:18,640
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1287
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:19,641
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1288
01:47:19,641 --> 01:47:20,892
YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1289
01:47:20,892 --> 01:47:21,893
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1290
01:47:21,893 --> 01:47:23,019
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1291
01:47:23,186 --> 01:47:24,187
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1292
01:47:24,187 --> 01:47:25,439
YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1293
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:26,440
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1294
01:47:27,566 --> 01:47:29,943
I’M ‘BOUT TO SLIP RIGHT BY

1295
01:47:29,943 --> 01:47:32,154
AND I’M GONNA SURPRISE

1296
01:47:32,154 --> 01:47:34,823
I DO MY THING WITH NO STRESS

1297
01:47:34,823 --> 01:47:36,741
I’M IN MY ELEMENT

1298
01:47:37,242 --> 01:47:40,203
INHALE, EXHALE, GET READY

1299
01:47:41,246 --> 01:47:44,207
GOT SOMETHING
NEW FOR YOU BABE

1300
01:47:44,499 --> 01:47:45,917
WATCH ME DO MY THING

1301
01:47:45,917 --> 01:47:52,674
YOU CAN’T HOLD ME
SO JUST LET GO

1302
01:47:54,885 --> 01:48:01,057
YOU CAN’T HOLD ME
SO JUST LET GO

1303
01:48:03,351 --> 01:48:04,895
GIRL YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1304
01:48:04,895 --> 01:48:05,937
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL

1305
01:48:05,937 --> 01:48:07,105
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW

1306
01:48:07,105 --> 01:48:08,273
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1307
01:48:08,273 --> 01:48:09,524
YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1308
01:48:09,524 --> 01:48:10,567
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL

1309
01:48:10,567 --> 01:48:11,735
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW

1310
01:48:11,735 --> 01:48:12,861
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1311
01:48:13,028 --> 01:48:14,154
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1312
01:48:14,154 --> 01:48:15,155
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1313
01:48:15,155 --> 01:48:16,406
YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1314
01:48:16,406 --> 01:48:17,407
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1315
01:48:17,407 --> 01:48:18,533
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1316
01:48:18,700 --> 01:48:19,701
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1317
01:48:19,701 --> 01:48:20,952
YOU GOTTA
TELL THE WORLD

1318
01:48:20,952 --> 01:48:21,953
YOU UNSTOPPABLE

1319
01:48:22,496 --> 01:48:25,081
OPEN UP THE GATE FOR ME

1320
01:48:25,081 --> 01:48:27,334
AND PUT YOUR HANDS
WHERE I CAN SEE

1321
01:48:27,334 --> 01:48:29,085
THERE COMES A TIME
IN YOUR LIFE

1322
01:48:29,753 --> 01:48:31,880
YOU DO WHAT’S WRONG
OR WHAT’S RIGHT

1323
01:48:32,255 --> 01:48:34,508
MY MOMMA DIDN’T RAISE
NO FOOL BUT I’M

1324
01:48:34,508 --> 01:48:36,676
ABOUT TO CHANGE
ALL THE RULES SO AH

1325
01:48:36,676 --> 01:48:38,803
DON’T YOU DARE
GET IN MY PATH

1326
01:48:38,803 --> 01:48:40,847
‘CAUSE I GO FIRST
AND YOU GO LAST

1327
01:48:41,097 --> 01:48:46,478
YOU CAN’T HOLD ME
SO JUST LET GO

1328
01:48:46,478 --> 01:48:48,146
GOTTA LET IT GO

1329
01:48:48,855 --> 01:48:50,232
GOTTA LET IT GO

1330
01:48:50,232 --> 01:48:55,820
YOU CAN’T HOLD ME
SO JUST LET GO

1331
01:49:51,543 --> 01:49:55,297
KEEP CHASING YOUR DREAMS

1332
01:49:55,297 --> 01:49:58,883
DON’T EVER LET GO