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First pitch is scheduled around 7:00am EST. It’s the Gold Medal Game between Japan and the United States here at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics at a reformatted baseball stadium.

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If you would like to contribute to today’s liveblog, feel free to send me emails to or sends tweets to and I’ll use them throughout the next seven innings (or more, we’re not going to end this on a tie obviously). pulled off a walk-off win with a seventh-inning home run to set up what should be a very tense Gold Medal Game. Despite being no-hit for much of the game. Both teams went 4-0, leading to Sunday’s tiebreaking game to determine “home field advantage,” which here only means who bats last as Japan really has home field advantage since they are playing at, well, home. It’s not shocking that the Gold Medal Game is between the two famously baseball-obsessed countries.

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This includes the fact that Japan has its own professional league: the Japan Women’s Baseball Team.Īgain, though, this is not to shame softball, which is where most of the female talent is currently concentrated. In any case, it’s important to note that women do also play hardball, that didn’t end with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of “A League Of Its Own” fame, although it’s a bit more common outside of America these days. at least, we’re usually talking about men’s rec leagues. As far as adult men playing softball, in the U.S. One reason for this is a segregation where girls are usually steered towards softball while boys play baseball, a trend which continues on in these Olympics where we have women’s softball and men’s baseball. Which is how it goes with softball, which is often unfairly regarded as an “inferior” brand of baseball. It’s also played on a different sized field, although, controversially, the Tokyo Olympics didn’t bother to create an actual softball field so this game is being played on a modified hardball field. hardball) where the ball is released by a pitcher in an underhand motion rather than overhand and it lasts seven innings rather than nine innings and is generally faster-paced in all other regards. For the uninitiated, softball is a variation on regular baseball (a.k.a. This is my first opportunity to liveblog Olympics softball because it, alongside baseball, was removed from the program after 2008. Welcome to the 2021 Olympics Gold Medal Softball Game between the U.S.

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