{"id":115279,"date":"2018-05-04T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=115279"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:47:56","slug":"video-meet-bates-softballs-star-slap-hitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/04\/video-meet-bates-softballs-star-slap-hitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Meet Bates softball&#8217;s star slap hitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In softball, the art of slap hitting involves getting a running start and, in the words of 19th-century baseball star &#8220;Wee Willie&#8221; Keeler, &#8220;hitting &#8217;em where they ain&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Very few do it better than Caroline Bass &#8217;21 of Newton, Mass., and Andrea Russo &#8217;19 of\u00a0Cheshire, Conn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Bates College softball&#039;s star slap hitters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afEIu-eGuvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Russo has 120 career hits entering Friday afternoon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nescac.com\/sports\/sball\/2017-18\/championship\/bracket\/index\">NESCAC tournament game against Amherst<\/a> \u2014 just seven shy of the Bates career hits record.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this year Bass broke the program records for hits and runs scored in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Their prowess at the top of the order has propelled Bates to a program-record 20 wins this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Bass &#8217;21 and Andrea Russo &#8217;19 &#8220;hit &#8217;em where they ain&#8217;t&#8221; as the Bobcats surge to a team record for wins in a season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":115363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,8,133],"tags":[6365,10923,10834],"class_list":["post-115279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-bates-values","category-creativity","tag-nescac","tag-softball","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115279"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115370,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115279\/revisions\/115370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}