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What a catch!
Florio, her throw to second, not gonna be in time-
And kind of a hard-hit ground ball. Dive and stop at short, Perez.
At the plate, the throw--
Sato recovers at first base--
Side, the throw! Almost got her.
Now going the other way in right, carried and gone!
There’s the hit we were waiting for, Kelsie Whitmore, a 3-1 shot--
Four exclamation points tonight for USA.
They are dancing in the batter’s box,
waiting for Kelsie to get home and celebrate with her.
And what else can you say at this point?
You think back to Day One of this tournament,
the United States nearly let it slip away...
MORE FIRE, MORE FIRE
So today we’re going to do some live at-bats.
Group two will go up to the cage and start getting some swings in.
Group three will be on the base paths.
Hitters, we’re going five pitches,
or if you get a hit before that, you’re out.
Good job, ladies. Let’s get it!
My goal for this Women’s World Cup is to prove
that we, again, have the best baseball program in the world.
It’s been very intentional the way we’ve approached it.
And we wanna showcase that on the world stage.
The World Cup is the biggest stage for women’s baseball
around the world. For this year’s World Cup,
the process started in 2022
with the continental qualifiers for the 25 nations around the world
that have women’s teams.
Twelve teams emerged to play in the World Cup group stage.
Hey, right at her!
All these women that are really pushing the envelope
in the game of baseball, they’re really good at their sport,
they’re incredible athletes and people,
and I want them to embrace that.
They’re each individually wolves, but the strength of the wolf is a pack.
So they need to understand that they’re not up-to-bat alone,
that they’re not on the mound alone,
that they have the support of their teammates
in this attempt to be the best in the world.
Good job. Good job. Get water.
Chill for a second. We’ll go into team defense.
And swing and misses at the fastball from Kelsie Whitmore.
Kelsie Whitmore, the first woman to appear
in a starting lineup in the Atlantic League,
making history there in US.
The prominent player for the United States,
at the 2018 Women’s World Cup, the last Women’s World Cup.
Part of why Kelsie Whitmore was named
USA Baseball’s “Sportswoman of the Year” last year.
And Whitmore is the only woman in the US being paid
to play on a men’s professional baseball team.
Well, I’m getting older too
So, take this love and take it down
Yeah, and if you climb a mountain, turn around
Yeah, baseball was definitely my first love, growing up.
Always has been, it always will be.
We were always inside the house.
If it was raining, we’d be in the house
and we’d be playing whiffle ball.
The railing of the stairs is perfect to where,
at the time, we were Red Sox fans growing up.
And so we would look at the railing and it looked like the Green Monster,
so we used it as our Green Monster.
And we would just- we knew the first rule was
to always put the picture frames down
because the ball would always knock ‘em over
and my mom’d get so mad at us.
Every single day she’d wanna play catch.
So we’d go out and throw and I’m all for that.
Eventually my dad asked me, he was like,
“So, Kelsie, you wanna play baseball in a league?”
”And, like with other players?”
I was like, “Well, do I have to wear my hair up?”
And I said, “You don’t have to have your hair in a ponytail.”
”You can have it any way you want to.”
And she goes, “Well, then, I wanna go play baseball.”
So-- And the rest is history. She never looked back.
So I guess at a young age, I’ve always kind of just wanted to be me.
Ayami Sato on the mound, the greatest women’s baseball pitcher
in human history, as decorated a player
on the international baseball landscape as you can find anywhere.
She is a multi-time MVP,
she’s been part of this six-straight World Cup Title run for Japan.
One heck of a career for Ayami Sato.
Allison Schroder from British Columbia, she’s ready to go.
Schroder made her debut with a splash
in the 2018 Women’s World Cup as a 16 year old.
Called strike three over the outside corner.
Allison Schroder comes into the game and strikes out Cobb.
My parents banked very early that I was not an artistic kid.
My twin sister danced.
Not for me, at all.
And so I was in a lot of sports.
Kind of the small town thing that your kids are in a lot of sports
when they’re growing up and it gets them out of the house
and interacting with people.
I did track and field,
I was riding dirt bikes,
kind of pondered the idea of motocross for a little bit.
I think by the time I was maybe seven,
T-ball and baseball was really sticking.
My very first glove was my older sister’s old softball mitt,
which was not a good glove, but it was what I had,
and it was probably two times the size of my head.
In Fruitvale we had a Little League team
that was called, The Beaver Valley Yankees.
And honestly, I think that then in my career,
you could probably ask me what my favorite baseball memory is,
and that’s still gonna be it.
Super dry, hot, August days playing baseball,
Little League, in Beaver Valley, Fruitvale.
I started playing baseball at six years old.
Whoa! Another hit!
I’m gonna get you now. I’m right behind ya!
My father was definitely the influence behind that.
You’re on the bases.
And then a coach saw me playing catch with my dad and he goes,
“Hey sir, your daughter has a really good arm.”
”You mind if I take her on my baseball team?”
Since that day I’ve never looked back.
When I think of one word to talk about our program, it always is “grit”.
We just have so much passion, so much grit.
They love the game and they work really hard.
And we’re really proud of them, and we’re excited for this tournament.
We’re playing against the best in the world.
There’s no easy games, there’s no letting up.
I think one mistake can cost you the whole tournament.
Runner!
You respect one another ‘cause you know how hard each other trains,
and you know how good they are,
but you just wanna win so bad.
And at the end we’re hoping to be wearing a gold medal.
We’re a really tight-knit group.
We love one another and it took every single one of us
to get to where we wanted to be.
Wheels! Wheels over there.
Just a game, as simple as a ball and bat,
and yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes.
It’s a sport, a business,
sometimes almost even religion.
This is a game for America, this baseball,
a game for boys, and for men.
My pursuit of baseball began as a young boy,
watching my mother play softball,
watching these women move around the field,
hit the ball, throw the ball,
the smell of the grass, the sun.
And just remember thinking-
that’s my first memory, “This is what I wanna do.”
My sister could throw the ball a lot harder than me.
And it was a little embarrassing at first, being on the team.
She would go to a ball game and she’d come back with great stats.
Four for five and two home runs,
lot of RBI’s in the game.
My stat line would be, oh for two with a sacrifice bunt.
As you trace the relationship of sports and women and men
throughout the 20th century, you get some fits and starts.
You get like, The League of Their Own in the ‘40s and ‘50s.
And it’s, literally, started by Philip Wrigley and Branch Rickey
from the Cubs and the Dodgers,
because they were afraid that all the men would be away at war.
Americans were passionate about baseball,
and especially, if you take yourself back to those very dark days,
there just wasn’t a lot of good news to be had.
And my grandfather really felt strongly that people loved baseball,
and what a shame
to take America’s game away from America.
I was out playing softball
and this scout came out and just like in the movie, my mother said,
“I’ve told you three times already, my daughter’s not going.”
He says, “But Mrs. Blair, you don’t understand.”
”We’re going to pay her $55 a week to play.”
My mother looked at my father and said,
“George, go crank up the car. I’m packing her suitcase”
”and she’s on the next train outta here.”
I’d get up to bat,
and you had 10,000 people in the stands, cheering.
That was a weird feeling for a girl in those days
because we never experienced anything like that
before we got to the big leagues.
When I was growing up, in the 1940’s, a woman’s place was at home.
But I always knew it was at home, first, second, and third.
Let’s face it. Gender equality was not something
anybody talked about back then.
The league lasted nine more seasons after the end of World War II,
to 1954.
Then men came back and re-entered the workforce.
The fans left to go back to the major leagues
and there was nobody coming out, watching the girls play anymore.
The fact that there were three women who played in the 1950’s
who didn’t get to play in the All-American League is
a fascinating story.
You have Mamie Johnson, Connie Morgan, and Toni Stone.
They got the opportunity to play in the Negro leagues
primarily because the All-American Girl’s Baseball League
did not allow women of color.
Shown sharpening her batting eye, Miss Stone is very fast afoot--
Toni Stone, her first season, she hit 254
and was voted into the All-Star Game.
Yes, from all appearances,
this second base lady is up in the NAL to stay,
which makes us conscious more and more each day of that old axiom,
“It’s a woman’s world.”
I think it’s important to always learn from your history.
Pioneers and trailblazers,
look what they went through.
And for me, that’s an important part, not just of women’s baseball,
but of baseball’s history.
Just because you don’t see somebody that looks like you,
it doesn’t mean that you can’t do it.
It just means you have to blaze that trail.
It’s being the first to open that door, to break that barrier.
In the community of Hoboken, New Jersey,
in 1972, Maria Pepe,
who was 12 years old at the time,
had played baseball with her friends, boys,
in her community for a couple of years.
And when they told her, hey, we’re gonna have a little league program.
You should sign up, she said, oh, that’d be great.
So she signed up and they registered her
and she was given a uniform and put on a team
and actually played in three games.
And then someone reported to Little League Baseball,
that Hoboken was allowing a girl to play,
which at the time, was a violation of the terms of the Federal Charter,
which said it was a program for boys.
And so they essentially told Maria, we’re sorry, you can’t play anymore.
And the National Organization of Women took up her cause,
and filed a lawsuit against Little League Baseball, Incorporated,
saying it was wrong. She should be able to play. You’re discriminating.
It, unfortunately, took two years for them to rule in her favor.
And by that time she had aged out of being able to play Little League.
So, she did a wonderful thing
for all the thousands of girls that have come after.
But it didn’t help her.
Little League sued for bias, but Maria no longer cares
Maria Pepe’s lawsuit against Little League
forced them to allow girls to play baseball,
but instead of encouraging girls to play baseball,
they set up a softball league.
Clearly, for decades we’ve been playing baseball.
We’ve shown and proved that we can play baseball.
And depending on the geographic area that you live in,
people will still try to force you into softball.
Baseball and softball, for me, are not the same sport.
Shorter bases, bigger ball,
different pitch coming at you, different planes of motion,
different ground ball reads.
There’s different strategies, there’s different timing,
there’s such a different mental component that goes into it.
My earliest recollection of sports is my sister.
She was a year older than me, physically bigger and stronger.
She dominated the sports scene.
All she wanted to do is play baseball.
But that wasn’t an opportunity for her to play baseball.
And she was mad all the time.
And she became a star in softball.
Ellie wanted desperately to play baseball but didn’t have a chance.
My dad played baseball and I wanted to be just like him.
And I thought softball wasn’t close enough to baseball.
Coaches, when they come across a girl that plays baseball,
they always come to me and they’re like, “Hey, Veronica,”
”I have a player that plays baseball.”
”What do you recommend I should do?”
”I think she has a better opportunity in softball.”
My response to them is always
“I assure you that she knows”
”there’s an opportunity in softball.”
”I assure you that she has been told”
”probably more than 100 times in her short life”
”that she should switch to softball.”
”So what you could do, which nobody else has done”
”is support her in her baseball dream.”
We don’t go to Serena Williams and tell her to go play ping pong.
So, it’s ridiculous that we still have this argument.
Kelsie, I’m here!
Growing up playing Little League, I was always the only girl on my team.
But then when I was on a travel ball team,
my dad told me, he said, “Hey, there’s another girl on the team.”
And I was like, “What? Like there’s no way-"
At the time you feel like you’re the only girl that plays baseball
in the whole entire world.
So yeah, I saw another girl on the team and it ended up being Jade.
And Jade’s one of my best friends, on the National Team now.
What I struggled with most was the discrimination.
It comes back to, literally,
being eight, nine, 10 years old and getting this.
And you might not understand it at that age, but now that I see it,
I’m like, why did I have to go through that to play baseball?
You can ask any other woman in baseball
and they’d probably say the same thing. But I wanted to quit, for sure.
I wanted to quit multiple times throughout my career, actually,
because of that.
I was a multi-sport athlete in high school.
So I played soccer, played a little bit of volleyball,
I played golf, track and field.
and when I would do that, it’d be with girls.
And I remember feeling just very relaxed and comfortable
because I was around the same gender.
But when I would go to the field for baseball, it was kind of-
I would get a little tense ‘cause I didn’t know what to say
or who to be.
It kind of took away my social skills for a bit,
because I didn’t know how to talk to the guys.
I didn’t know what conversation to have.
Feeling very isolated.
I grew up with, obviously, playing on the boys’ teams.
But I think that experience would’ve been that much more powerful
if it was with other girls, like me.
Being with 19 other women that
love the same game that I love,
and have the same passions that I do is,
it’s pretty incredible. It’s awesome.
And being able to share that and then come together
and just perform and play is,
it’s something we all dream about, right?
I’m here. I’m here, right? In this moment, I’m here.
And I’m like, man, I wish we could do this every day.
I wish we could do this for a living.
God willing, maybe one day there will be a league that
we can all play together and--
Sometimes I’m just like, is that just too much to ask for,
for one day, to just have that?
Watching batting practice. See?
Yeah. Pretty good swings.
Hey, Alli.
- Nice to meet you. - I’m Ferguson. Pleasure.
- Nice to meet you. Real good. - Nice to meet you.
- Heard a lot of stories about ya. - I’ve heard a lot of stories about you.
I think because you had to face some adversity,
made you a better athlete.
- Yeah. - A better player, better teammate.
I think, basically, becoming more mature
in a sport that isolated you.
Yeah, I would agree, and building resilience as well, was huge for me
at a young age ‘cause that’s something that you take into life,
you take into jobs, careers.
My situation’s similar.
Being the only player of color that was a pitcher,
every so often you’d hear, “Hey, you don’t belong here.”
”What’re you doing here?”
If somebody was really heckling me bad, I used to walk from the outfield
into the infield. I’d become an infielder.
So you control the way you react.
And it was hard to learn that at 10, 11 years old.
But, if the batter’s heckling me after he’s struck out,
I don’t need to look at him. I just don’t give him the time of day,
- and they’re not gonna keep going. - Yeah.
Hello and welcome to the Women’s Baseball World Cup,
Group A being played here in Thunder Bay.
This year the World Cup is set up a little bit different.
There’s group stages. And so we’re Group A,
and it’s us, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Korea, and Hong Kong.
The top three ranked teams will go on to play the top three teams
from Group B in the Finals.
This team has been building itself for the last five years in different ways.
We’re just here to showcase it and set the standard of
what we want women’s baseball to look like.
We work really hard for this moment, and to finally pull on the jersey,
it’s only pride, yeah.
I have a very aggressive approach to my coaching style
and I think the players respond really well to it.
From the moment we’re in the hotel, the dorms, we’re blasting music,
to the moment we’re on the bus,
and then the moment we get off the bus,
we’re just a whole vibe. We’re just- we’re just--
I love being around them.
They bring the energy, for sure.
Here we go, lock it.
You ready?
Our mission is to rule the entire fuckin’ world.
There’s no friendliness in competition. This is war.
After, we can be nice. We can be friends after the war.
But not before.
This is the opening Women’s Baseball World Cup Games,
between Hong Kong, China, and Korea. What a match-up.
And here is now Soyeon Park.
First game of the World Cup.
Group A. Driven to left! That’s gonna drop.
A run comes in. Nice job by Soyeon Park.
A one-run game, 9-8 lead, by Hong Kong, China.
Ground ball to short!
The throw to first. And that’s the out!
And that’s the win!
Hong Kong, China survives
with a nine to eight victory over Korea.
Game Two between the United States and Australia.
Whitmore laces out to left center.
It’s down for a knock.
And she’ll hold at first with a leadoff base hit.
And a ball looped, shallow right center. Back with it is Hugo!
And the United States is gonna hold on for the 3-2 win.
And here hits now Diana Ibarra.
Mexico wins it!
That’s Mexico’s first win, and the second loss for Australia.
She hits it in the air.
Hits it up in the breeze and that ball’s gone!
The US is undefeated so far,
and Korea hasn’t won a game yet.
Allison Schroder, she is really an all-around great talent for Canada.
She’s a professional firefighter
and she goes wherever the wildfires are raging.
Yeah, right now we’re on site of
the 2021 Merry Creek wildfire.
I remember being at home just across the valley when this wildfire ignited,
and watching it go from a small plume of campfire smoke
to a raging hillside within a matter of minutes.
I think you don’t really think of the magnitude of what you’re doing
as a wildland firefighter and then as well as a national athlete
because to you, it’s just kind of like,
oh yeah, things are good, things are normal.
I just fought a wildfire last week and now I’m going to the World Cup.
I figured before that I burnt myself out
from playing baseball and training,
but it’s incomparable to working 14-day shifts in a row
fighting wildfires.
As an athlete, I’ve noticed the smoke inhalation
to significantly affect my abilities on the playing field.
It’s almost like you come out of a fire season
and you feel like you’ve smoked a pack a day for the last 98 days.
I’m 21 and my knees both hurt
and there’s not much I can do about it, at this point,
as long as I keep working this job.
Shoulders, which isn’t a good one for me, as a pitcher.
There’s a lot more at stake on the fire line
than there is in a big game, and I think that’s something that
I’ve really been able to use to calm myself down
on the baseball field in big situations.
One ball, two strikes.
Backing up, it’s over her head, a run scores. Here comes another.
Throw to the plate, cut off, and it’s 2-0, Canada.
Game number nine, the huge matchup between The United States…
One, two, three! USA!
and Canada.
This is huge for me in my career,
because this is the first big games that we’ve had in Canada.
So we’ll see Schroder, who’s one of the biggest stories
at this tournament, playing here on home soil.
Pops this ball up, out towards right center. Three players converge.
The call and the catch made by the centerfielder, Kelsie Whitmore.
She left the bases loaded. And that is going the other way.
And that’s gonna fall in right field.
One run scored. They’re gonna send another one.
And that is hacked to right.
It’s carrying. And it’s gone!
It’s a grand slam!
And the fans here at Thunder Bay just don’t know what to do.
You look down that first base line and it’s silence.
What a way to end it, a strike out.
And that is the ball game, 23 to nothing, the final score.
This is Canada’s first loss in the tournament.
But the US remains undefeated.
Hong Kong, China versus the US powerhouse,
that is looking to secure the spot in the Finals.
A swing and a miss!
And USA has clinched a spot in the World Cup Finals.
The US finishing one, Canada finishing two,
and Mexico finishing three.
Those top three teams will be
in the Finals here in Thunder Bay, Canada.
Next year, Group B will be played in Japan in September.
Let’s go!
Ticket punched!
No doubt. Let’s go.
Korea ending the World Cup winless.
A learning experience for them.
Hi Soyeon.
I’m happy to talk to you through the camera.
And I was very happy to hear your story.
I’m very excited to follow your career.
You are the most strong woman,
mentality-wise and in baseball, too.
So I wish one day we can meet and play catch.
I wish I could throw some ball so you can hit.
Want to tell you to follow your dream and never give up.
Good luck.
Kelsie is one of the most fit athletes that I’ve been around.
I am so impressed with her physical preparation
and her mental preparation.
The average fastball in the major leagues is 93 miles an hour.
And so I think it’s a tough road,
but if anybody could overcome that obstacle,
it would be Kelsie Whitmore.
Any plans to go back to Staten Island for the Ferry Hawks?
I have no clue what my plans are.
I think that’s what I’m trying to figure out right now is
what I’m gonna do and where I’m gonna go.
Everything’s so in the air year to year.
- Sure. - That’s the tough part,
unless you’re in the big leagues or in double-A, triple-A, or whatever,
- Yeah. - minor league ball,
you’re not signing a multi-year contract.
She basically has to have her A-game every time she steps on the field.
There’s not a lot of room for errors or mistakes.
She’s gotta be prepared and perform
on every pitch, on every play.
Nobody’s perfect all the time.
But if she isn’t, then it opens up that floodgate for the naysayers
to say, “I told ya so. She shouldn’t be here.”
And that’s a lot of added pressure
that a lot of these other ballplayers don’t have.
I started off playing with the boys in Little League.
The furthest I made it is when I was 10 and we made it to States.
That was it and I kept going into high school.
And the varsity coaches, they,
“Yo I don’t think you’re good enough to play varsity.”
And I was like, “You’ve never seen me play a game.”
So, it was just like, they counted me out before it even happened.
I had the same problem.
In high school I played freshman ball, 9th grade
and, I didn’t get to pitch that often.
But middle school when I played, I was number one.
It’s a complete game for Mo’ne Davis.
The coach he knew who I was.
I played with him for a couple years so he was able to give me chances.
But, once I got to high school, they’re like, “I don’t know.”
- ”This guy is 6’2”-- “ - Right. And it becomes this--
Yeah, like, “We’ll give you some innings here and there.”
And then, when I finally got my chance to actually pitch a full game,
we held ‘em to two runs and I think we won the game.
And that coach is like, “Where did this come from?”
But I’m sitting there, I’m like, “You never gave me a chance.”
‘Cause I played with all those guys in middle school.
So, the guys knew, but the coaches didn’t know.
Yeah, I feel ya.
I’ve been going through a lot of mental health issues
for the past two years.
I moved out on my own and found it hard to find jobs
and eventually had to leave my apartment
because I couldn’t pay for it anymore.
A lot of us are taught, we need to be strong.
Really hold your own.
Even for me now, I’m like, well if my insurance doesn’t cover this,
I’m not gonna go to therapy.
And that’s difficult. That’s a difficult thing to have to stomach
and be like, well I have to try to figure out how to do this by myself.
I feel like that’s a journey that we’re all taking,
that we still take as- no matter how old we get.
When you see your child-
and it’s not just working hard,
it’s keeping her composure,
believing, “If I work hard,”
”if I treat people well, if I’m respectful-- “
Gabby has gone through so many walls, just slapping in her face.
“Oh, you’re great.” But then they walk away.
It’s like, “If I’m so great, then why aren’t you embracing me?”
”Why aren’t you helping me?”
I don’t want her to reach the point that
she becomes so disappointed and jaded in spirit.
So when I decided, I’m like,
“Okay, well, New York isn’t, obviously, fitting right now.
Let me just take it as a sign and let me go to Puerto Rico
and play baseball.”
”Hey, maybe being in baseball again will lift my spirits up.”
This is a process.
We are trying to get new players.
We brought Gabby, and we brought some other players
to go to the championship.
Uno, dos, tres!
Our players are really looking for that.
They are- really want to show the world, that they belong there.
The Puerto Rico team and me, included, as well,
and all of us, we’re so eager to try to get to that next level
at the next World Cup.
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening
to all the baseball fans around the world.
You are watching Women’s Baseball World Cup, Group B
in Miyoshi Kinsai Stadium, Hiroshima.
Each of these teams will only see each other once.
Top three finishers will join the United States, Canada,
and Mexico, qualified as the top three finishers out of Thunder Bay.
Chinese Taipei and Cuba.
Two outs.
That’s a pitch out, thrown to the second base and in time.
Get a runner out.
Chinese Taipei become the first W in this tournament.
A matchup between 16 France and number five Venezuela.
Léonie Pauthe over there at first who has the infield.
Here’s a flare into shallow left field.
This is gonna go down for a base hit.
And it hops toward the foul line.
And that will score the game-winning run for Venezuela.
And France, a valiant effort and a good start,
but Venezuela is super-talented.
Puerto Rico takes on Cuba.
Another 1-2 pitch, and that will do it.
A really impressive wall-to-wall performance by Puerto Rico.
One more for the road with the world’s number one from Japan.
They get set to take on the world’s number seven, Cuba.
A full count offering grounded over to third,
and fumbling that ball, will throw to first.
What a stretch and dig over there by Libia Duarte who does the splits.
Cuba’s trying to reclaim its place atop the international baseball world.
When I was a kid growing up, I never think and I never see,
not even thought a girl could play baseball or another game.
But, right now, yes, I think they can do.
Because everything is different.
That’s good. I like this way better, the way is now.
When I watching TV and see a woman playing baseball, and we watch it.
Oh, yes. I wanna see,
and then I can give my opinion about it
because it’s- oh, that’d be great. Yes.
I would love to see. Libia, she can play.
She can play and she can hit and she can throw and she can catch
and she can run, too.
Very impressed.
Off again after this, the seventh inning,
and now the tying run comes to score.
We have a tie ball game, 7-7 at the top of the seventh inning.
Another two RBI single by Duarte, the seventh inning.
And it goes, and the throw is not in time. And now--
Great chance at end of game with a squeeze play.
And she will be the final at bat,
and Venezuela win again with a squeeze play--
Venezuela facing off against Puerto Rico.
A swing and a flyball in the air towards shallow left,
coming onto Alanis Rodriguez. That’s gonna drop down for a base hit.
And she gets her team started with a 1-0 lead.
This is gonna be an RBI infield single if she can beat it out at first,
and she does. It’s 3-0, Venezuela.
One-oh pitch. Lifted in the air to right, starting in and out,
going back as Marin, Abril is there.
Congratulations to a Venezuela team that had every right--
Losing in Japan was difficult.
Who doesn’t wanna be in the World Cup Finals?
It’s not about me.
It’s about us, and I wanted us to win.
But we came up short.
And all I can hope for is progress on myself.
Because leading up to that point, I was having a rough time.
It’s definitely tough, but we’ll live to play another day.
Venezuela against undefeated Japan.
Venezuela take the lead.
Third inning, after Japan scored one run, bottom of the second inning.
Another hard-hit ball, with another RBI base hit by Venezuela.
Wow. Good, tight ball game.
Ayami Sato, a true legend in Japan.
She’s taking the mound.
In for a strike, number 18.
That’s a fastball. Here comes the pitch.
Ground just went towards the first base.
Sato recovered the first base in time, retiring the side, in order.
Nothing scored. Winning run on third base.
Drive this one towards the gap, and that will be it.
Japan , they’ve got the third victory
with a walk off--
The last five days. Congratulations to World Number One, Japan.
World Number Two, Chinese Taipei.
And, our final qualifier, World Number Five, Venezuela, moving on.
And next year, six teams contest for the crown in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- Hello. - Hey.
- What’s happening? - Hey, what’s happening?
- What’s up? - Hey.
You guys put this up? That’s funny.
I grew up with my grandpa, my dad, and my brother. We golfed a lot.
Six years old, she play golf.
Thought she’s gonna be stuck with golf, but she ended up baseball.
I went to Canada and Japan to watch her in the World Cup.
And here, when she was Little League,
every home run she hits, I give her $100.
He made the deal. That was the deal. We shook on it.
- She was counting. - I did. I did start counting.
I had 12 home runs my senior year.
And I was like, hey--
I was counting on- After college, that’s it.
- He stopped. He stopped. - I’m broke, already.
We see her play the game,
and when she has interviews, we watch.
We watch that.
And we talk very often.
Yeah, my grandma-
You call me every other day, huh?
Because I miss you, that’s why.
You’ll leave me a voicemail if I don’t answer.
And then she’ll call me a second time and be like,
“Why didn’t you answer my call?”
Sometimes I get worried.
What do you worry about?
About you, being lonely, sometimes.
You’re lonely, sometimes.
This is my third year in pro-ball, overall,
second year in the Atlantic League.
But I still get moments where I feel
there’s that gut part of me that’s like, oh
I still am the only one.
I still am alone, in a sense.
I’m able to learn how to cope with it now.
I’m able to learn how to get through it, and deal with it.
But there’s still moments, for sure.
And I think there will always be those moments.
Social media can be- it can be brutal.
I remember when I would see comments, they would eat me alive.
So I went through it and I screenshotted the ones that, like
kinda, like, hurt me a little.
I make it my lock screen, so I look at it every day.
And I look at it, and I say, “Thank you.”
”Thank you for wanting me to get better.”
”Thank you for pushing me to wanna get after it.”
”Just fired me up. Don’t talk back, talk back with your glove. Right?”
”Talk back with the bat. Talk back with your action of play.”
Wow.
We are so, so thankful for you taking time to come visit us tonight.
Just so you know, this is the third sports bar in the country that
exclusively shows women’s sports.
Thank you.
We have an athlete wall where all of our Olympians
and professional athletes have signed.
We’d love to have y’all sign the wall, too, if you would like.
For this Women’s World Cup, we don’t underestimate anybody.
We know Japan’s working. We know Chinese Taipei’s working.
We know Mexico’s-- We know they’re all working.
So I think that’s the best way we could approach it, is with confidence,
but also knowing they’re coming after us.
I can’t believe we actually leave tomorrow.
- I know. - It’s tomorrow.
Yeah.
Ah, Thunder Bay! Feel like it’s gonna be wild this year.
The people from Japan, they go all out.
So they’re probably gonna bring a lot of people.
- I know. Yeah. - It is gonna be nice to have
quite a bit of people cheering us on. It’s The World Cup.
But, are you nervous or anything?
I’m not gonna lie.
This game brings out my anxiety.
- I’m being so honest. - Absolutely. Absolutely.
I have bad anxiety because of baseball.
For me, kicks in when I hear the national anthem play.
- It hits different-- - Oh, this is it.
‘Cause you look down, it’s like, you got USA across your chest
- Yeah. - and you got your staff of 24 people
standing shoulder-to-shoulder with you and all here for a common goal.
- And it’s like, dang, we made it. - Yeah. Yeah.
We’re here, we’re for real here.
We got such good chemistry.
- Yeah. - Energy.
And we only get together three weeks out of the year.
Literally. And it’s insane.
I always envision us holding that gold medal.
And me biting that gold medal.
- I see it in my head so vividly. - Yeah.
But, it’s always good to have those intentions,
but it’s also important to make that happen, is to just be here.
You can dream and all that stuff, but you gotta make it happen.
That expires 12-28-32?
- Yes. - Perfect.
PASSPORT CONTROL B
“Dear members of the media,”
“welcome to the pre-tournament press conference”
”of the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup Finals, 2024.”
Every opportunity we get pushes us forward in the right direction.
And so, we need to take advantage of it,
and not just us up here, or the players on our teams,
but also anybody who’s covering the event.
All our videographers, our photographers,
our media relations, anyone who writes or speaks about this topic,
you all are a part of this mission of pushing us forward
because more visibility,
more representation is only gonna make us better
and create more opportunities for us in the future.
WE’RE COMING FOR YOU
YOU DON’T WANT TO MESS WITH A WINNER
ICE SO COLD MAKE YOU SHIVER
YOU’RE LOOKING AT A COLD BLOODED KILLER
WE’RE COMING FOR YA
IT’S GOING DOWN
Well good afternoon,
and welcome to Port Arthur Stadium
in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada,
as we get set to begin
the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup.
Four days before I left for Thunder Bay,
we were working a pretty high profile fire in our area,
and the pressure was on, for sure.
And I was hosing, and I fell into an ash pit of hot rocks-
luckily on my left side. It wasn’t on my throwing arm.
But, got some pretty good burns on my hand
that I’m dealing with, right now.
Thankfully we have good trainers here that are able to help me through that.
This is literally two days before she came here.
So these burns are very, very fresh. Risk of infection is high.
- Thank you very much. - You’re welcome.
Definitely had some nerves in there for looking at my hand,
like, oh no, I might not be able to swing a bat.
But, pitching-wise, all good to go.
Schroder, from Fruitvale, British Columbia.
There’s a strike. A pitch.
High flyball, hit really well to centerfield.
Catterall’s going back. She’s way back, and it’s gone!
2-0 in the first.
Go USA!
There’s a high chopper off on contact.
Canada’s able to get on the board, and it’s a 2-1 game.
Deep in the corner, in left field! It’s a home run!
Home run for the United States, and a disaster for Canada.
Pluta is gonna make a trip out to the mound.
Nice hand for Schroder from these fans in Thunder Bay.
Not the outing she woulda hoped for on this stage.
And Alex Hugo, over to first.
That’s the ball game. And a 13-4 victory.
The US, this year, to my eyes, at least, is
the best-looking ball club here.
It was a team win. Everybody contributed to it.
I think they do a really good job of coming together, playing well,
and each of them contributing to the game.
It’s hard, but that’s just the way it goes at big events like this.
But, nevertheless, we brought the energy to every game
and we brought pride to every game.
And I think that’s a huge piece for us.
We got three games to win to leave here with the medal.
We’re not leaving here empty-handed.
We’re leaving here with a bronze medal.
Canada on three. One, two, three! Canada!
Unfortunately it was a forfeit.
We like to win with effort.
So, it is a win in the books, but we were excited to play.
We’re very excited to get going with this event.
One, two, three! USA!
And a big game today for the United States against Chinese Taipei.
The United States trying to punch a ticket to
the World Championship Final on Saturday.
They do that with a win.
And there’s a high flyball to centerfield.
That’s gonna be deep enough to score a run.
1-0, the United States on top.
Albayati swings, ground ball. Up the middle, into centerfield.
That score is one.
Ashton Lansdell lifts it over the leaping third baseman,
headed towards the corner, off the wall.
Lansdell digging for second.
You know she’s not going in, standing up.
And that’s headed down, in left centerfield.
Not only a hit, it’ll drive in a pair.
And that is the ball game.
And now we know what the World Championship Final will be
on Saturday afternoon.
It’ll be the United States and Japan.
So as we set the scenario,
the host nation, Canada, will entertain Venezuela.
If Canada wins here, they’ll solidify their spot in third
and will play for the bronze.
That one’s lifted up deep to right field,
and I kid you not, that was a grand slam!
They will play for the bronze medal.
A huge game between Mexico and Venezuela.
The winner of this game will go on to face Canada
in the bronze medal game on Saturday.
And in the air to right field.
A great jump, what a dive! But it gets past Arciniega.
And Mexico will in fact take a 1-0 lead.
And it’s in the air, right centerfield. Moving back,
diving- it’s off the glove of Valenzuela!
That will tie the game!
Here we are in the eighth, and here’s a flyball
and this’ll test the arm of Mariana Natera.
She makes the catch. Here’s the throw.
The relay to the plate, on the wrong side of it, they reclaim the lead.
Flyball, right centerfield, well-hit. Valenzuela.
That’s the ball game!
Mexico will advance and play for the bronze medal
against Canada on Saturday morning,
as they hold on in the thriller, 3-2, over Venezuela.
We start Day Five with a doozy. United States and Japan.
So much intrigue in this matchup,
not the least of which, the fact that these two teams will play again
on Saturday for the World Championship.
This is a preview of the gold medal game.
We’re not taking it easy, at all.
We wanna leave a lasting impression
so a team doesn’t wanna ever face us again.
We want them to know that that gold medal game is going to be
a difficult game for them.
And there is one of the great stars of women’s baseball, Ayami Sato.
She’s been a part of five of the six straight world championships
for her country. Not only are they winning world championships,
they’re just not losing games.
The last time Japan lost a game in World Cup competition was 2012.
Will today be the day that somebody finally gets the best of a Japan team?
Ground ball, left side. Picked up at short, Iwami’s throw.
You’re not gonna get Whitmore with that speed.
Pop up here off the batter, Schaber.
Falling fast and past the dive of Iwami.
Whitmore on the way to third, and she’s in with a slide.
Break-even pitch from Sato. It’s high in the air.
That’s deep to left field. Albayati got ahold of it!
And the United States has a 3-0 lead!
That’s a line drive, into right centerfield.
Might get Japan on the board. Whitmore’s throw cut off.
And we’ve got a 3-1 game.
Left centerfield. Whitmore has it go off of her glove.
And we’ll have a tie game!
It’s 3-3 in the bottom of the sixth.
0-2 pitch. Up the middle.
Perez knocks it down, throws from her knees.
Ryan on the hub. We’re goin’ to extras!
Strike two.
Oh, no. I don’t think the pitch counted.
A balk has been called at the top of the eighth inning
and the bases loaded.
It is 4-3, the United States is in front.
One-strike pitch.
Popped up. Foul ground.
Ryan under it, makes the catch, crashes into the wall.
Two outs.
Swing and a miss! And The United States will finish the opening round
of this tournament 5-0.
The United States hands Japan its first loss
in World Cup competition since 2012.
And we’ll do it all over again on Saturday
when these two teams take one another on
in the World Championship Final.
Women’s baseball has an interesting dynamic because essentially,
we’re all pushing to get our sport out there and build our sport up.
USA wants to beat the crap out of us every game.
We wanna beat the crap out of USA every game.
But there’s a lot of players on that team that I have utmost respect for,
for what they’re doing for women’s baseball.
To represent something that’s bigger than ourselves--
We’re representing not only our country,
but we’re representing women in the game and women in sports.
And that’s something really, really powerful to hold onto.
The bigger story going on is just the growth of women’s baseball, right?
And to see how many countries have elevated their level of play,
and gotten better.
To see how many new countries are playing baseball.
We have baseball in Uganda, now.
It’s a very encouraging thing to see the growth of the game
at the rate that it’s been going.
ADONAI HOUSE
TOURIST VEHICLE
Meggie!
How are you?
I remember Meggie had talked to me about
how this trip to Uganda was coming up.
- Welcome. - Thank you.
- My name’s Kelsie. - Kelsie. Sarah. You’re welcome.
She was telling me the background of it, and everything.
And I was like, “Oh, yeah. That would be so cool.”
”I would love to do it.”
And, I was kind of in this traveling mindset at the time.
Finally got here and I don’t even know what to expect.
- I’m Meggie. - I’m Martin.
Nice to meet you.
- Yeah. How are you? - Good.
Hi. Kelsie. Good to meet you. Kelsie.
Ashton.
So we are going to make two lines
to the fence.
Two-two.
- Are we set? - Yeah.
We are going for five times, yeah?
We have a runner at second.
So, you watch her come in, eh?
Not now. You watch the runner then you run round the base.
Lillian is great. She’s amazing and she really wants to
just play this game and compete.
Female baseball players who are moms are
some of the most bad-ass women I’ve ever met.
There’s another level called mom strength, and they have it.
She is an inspiration to all these kids ‘cause she’s one of them.
- Super, super high? - Yes!
- Super high? - Yes!
Oh!
Watch, I’ll sink the pitch, right?
So when I catch it,
target’s low, stick it. Right?
And the seams go up.
Now your- your fingertips match the seams right there.
So try throwing it like that. Yeah.
Yeah! Who’s next? Who’s next?
So whoever’s up, you’re gonna go in the box.
Whoever’s on deck, I want you to visualize.
I want you to close your eyes, visualize yourself hitting the ball hard.
Okay? Putting the ball in play.
That’s the mental side of the game. Okay?
Go-go-go!
Get there.
- Oh! - Oh.
Go-go-go!
Good job, ladies! Good job!
Oh, man.
The spirit of the Ugandan people, it just warms your heart.
Going to Uganda was about baseball, and this little league team.
But, when I got there,
I understood that it was so much more than baseball.
I saw the boys play, and I saw their talent. And it’s like, wow.
You can see the difference between the natural athleticism
and the young boys that’s picking up baseball,
versus these girls getting training for a whole year.
I’m like, “She throws better than him.”
Once I saw it happen, not just one girl, not just two,
but everybody in line, I’m like, okay, they’re really playing over here.
We have the bat.
Sometimes they have gloves.
They have a ball. Sometimes they have cleats.
Sometimes they just run around barefoot.
They love the game of baseball.
Can Uganda grow to compete at a World Baseball Cup level?
If you give these girls proper resources, yeah, for sure.
No doubt about it.
“We are the best!”
Wow. Where’d you find this?
Somebody had footage of this.
“1-2, 1-2, and Uganda Baseball comes through.”
“Big Diddly in the house.”
”And so it’s me doing everything casually.“
”Because we don’t like to play and get down,”
“Uganda and Nsambia, the big towns.”
”I’m done. We get it down.”
”We get it to where I stand up and push it on. And that’s youth.”
”And when the ball leave the field, I’m gonna clown.”
”Lob down a baseline, throw a pound.”
”To the sky up high, to my fans, we got a plan.”
”Everybody just say, baseball, baseball.”
”Everybody say, baseball, baseball.”
Inside corner. Inside corner.
I have no idea what to expect, the level of play
but I’m very impressed.
You can see that they want to learn, and they want to be better.
A lot of those kids who are crushing it,
the first time playing baseball was in 2019.
They’ve put in a lot of work.
We’re also giving them this idea and vision of having their own team.
Be able to say, we want you to come play us.
And then for most of the girls, it’s like a lightbulb moment.
Supposed to look like this! Boom-boom!
Boom-boom! Boom-boom!
- There we go. - There we go.
You can tell which girls take it serious and they really want to learn.
I get so excited when I see one that has such raw talent.
Three? Four? Yeah, come on, I like it. Let’s go.
Oh, that’s so cute.
- Number one! Out. - Out.
- Number two! - Defense!
- Number three! -!
Here we have all time for the ball to go through.
Yes. You can do it! You can do it!
It’s why the game is more than just a game.
It is to be able to draw in all those other young girls around
in the game, and who love it, and to just-
just to be someone for them
that they can look up to, that can help inspire them.
When I was a young age, the baseball players I looked up to were all guys.
Mike Mussina, Cal Ripken.
And for the girls to have other girls to look up to, is something special.
Run! Run! Run!
When I was growing up, I wished that I had somewhere in a small town
like this where I could play with other girls.
She always supports me and says, you got a big swing and you got this.
They’re hitting the ball better than they usually do,
so that shows improvement.
Good job. Good job. Good huss.
Can’t really send them off to an all-women’s program.
But hopefully we can build them up to the point
where they love the game so much that they wanna keep playing
and they can go into T-ball with the boys,
they can go into Little League with the boys.
I just wanna have them having fun, playing baseball,
and hopefully that’ll stick with them.
I think it’s fun and I wanna do more of it,
a lot more. I wanna be like Alli.
Good game. Good game.
When I see younger girls in the stands, it’s awesome.
It’s hard to resist them. You know?
‘Cause you’re like, wow they’re coming here for me,
they wanna support me
and they want to have a picture with me, the little things like that.
It means a lot.
I think if I had seen an older woman playing baseball when I was younger,
it would’ve given me hope that, oh, her future that she has is-
would be possible for me.
I wanna be what I didn’t have.
Woo!
MEXICO
Early on, I would like to get things moving, just to put pressure on them.
But I don’t wanna run in to outs.
Okay, okay! We gotta find a way to score runs.
We’re gonna compete for our first medal.
It’s been a process.
Six years ago we started this, hoping to get to where we are right now.
And we need to play perfect.
Canada’s a tough team. They hit, they pitch.
They’re very well rounded.
And I think we’re ready. So hopefully we can come in on top.
Well, good morning, and welcome once again to Port Arthur Stadium
in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada for the bronze medal game
at this WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup
between Canada and Mexico.
And the winner of this one takes home the bronze medal.
We begin with strike one to Benitez, the shortstop.
And Benitez pops it up.
Ross, from behind the dish, sprinting towards the dugout,
and she makes the diving grab!
Ground ball, left side, right at Zoe Hicks.
Recovers, and goes to first for the out that retires the side.
And she’ll take a look at strike three.
Heads up, Tess!
Look out! First pitch swinging.
This ball’s deep to left field, and it’s gone!
Caterall dives, and she comes up with it.
Tying run scores.
And Canada now has a 3-1 lead.
Canada - 4, Mexico - 1.
High drama at Port Arthur Stadium.
A 4-1 lead for Canada.
Just one out left for Canada to collect the bronze.
Ground ball. In the hole, gonna be a tough play.
Valcke dives, pops up, and throws to second as the run scores.
0-1.
Ground ball softly hit to third. Hicks has it.
Stomps on the bag and it’s a bronze medal win for Canada!
An incredible battle, as we knew it would be against Japan,
and they came out with Sato, and we knew it’d be a tough game.
But it also showed us that they were here to win, too.
So, and I like it. I like when people play to win.
I like when they bring their best towards us,
‘cause we’re gonna bring our best. The game started tight,
but Jamie had command of the zone
and really kept their hitters off balance.
Sato does a really good job of mixing pitches
and keeping our hitters off balance, right?
I think that it’s a trick that won’t work, necessarily, on us a long time.
So I’m excited for Saturday and our hitters to know
what to expect from a team like Japan.
Well good afternoon and welcome to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
for the World Championship of the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup.
It’s the United States and Japan,
the undisputed world number one winners of
six straight Women’s World Cups.
And Jill Albayati, it’ll be her first start of the tournament.
It is slapped into right field.
What a throw from Pichardo but she airmails Benites,
and that’ll allow the game’s first run to score.
Line drive, fair ball. They’re gonna send a runner.
Here comes the throw from Martinez.
Cut off, no relay! 2-0, Japan.
And here’s a ball, belted deep to right field.
That’s way back and it’s gone!
Two-run homer, Yuki Kawabata scores, helping Japan in the third.
This is probably gonna be the most adversity that the US has faced.
Shot to third, charged by Deguchi.
Over to first. Kawabata did not get down, and a run was scored.
There’s the one back the US needed.
Pichardo’s 1-1.
It’s a bunt with the bases loaded.
5-1, Japan.
It’s another bunt.
Fly infield, she goes home. Safe! Japan pulling away.
Now a ball that hugs the line, fair at first,
gets under the glove of Ryan, and will bring in another run.
Hugo swinging, hits it in the air to centerfield,
hits a long way to centerfield. Miura’s there.
This ball is gone! Hugo homers.
Here comes the United States.
The US needed something and they got something.
Whitmore deposits it in left field.
And this is the inning we’ve been waiting for.
Grounds this one into left field.
Three straight base runners to start the inning for the United States.
Lansdell off the end of the bat.
Falling down, shallow center field, it’s down for a hit.
Station to station. 11-5.
Ryan hits it right side.
Two hops. To first.
An 11-6 ball game.
USA!
Meggie Meidlinger on the hill for the United States.
In the air to left field, Albayati, charging,
makes the catch, on the move.
Japan, three outs away from a seventh consecutive
Women’s World Cup championship.
And she swings and lines it into centerfield.
A walk moves the tying run into the on deck circle,
and it brings Alex Hugo to the plate.
Lansdell pops it up here, back behind the plate.
Hanabusa gives chase.
Hanabusa, the catch! And its seven straight,
Japan is still world champion!
I’m incredibly proud of every single one of you guys.
Obviously this outcome absolutely sucks right,
‘cause we worked so hard for the last six years.
So now we keep building off of this shit, ‘cause we’re not satisfied.
We are not okay with second place.
We will win this gold medal.
Whatever it takes to do, we keep building off of it.
And so you continue to be great examples for women in the game.
Keep pushing the people behind you, ‘cause there are people behind you
coming up that’re going to push you to be better.
Take advantage of that. You guys are incredible.
I love every one of you more than you could ever know.
All we can do is better than next time.
Go back to work and come back strong.
Here we go, USA on three! One, two, three!
USA!
Having this World Cup, in general, elevates the sport already.
And I know there’s a lot of people back home in the US,
and most likely all the other countries, too, just seeing that
there is a stage for women to play baseball competitively.
And that’s what just happened today and this whole, entire week.
The level of play at this World Cup was higher than the one in 2018,
so that’s a good trajectory for women’s baseball.
I think that it’s only gonna keep getting more competitive.
I think it’s something for any little girl to look up to.
Playing for your country is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
And having that in women’s baseball is really special.
When I was your age,
I actually was often mistaken for as a boy.
And I played baseball. I played baseball since T-ball.
One season, I got a new coach,
and he said that I should quit baseball because I’m a girl.
And that was the moment that I decided I would play forever.
I was the first woman to play at my high school in the state of Ohio.
To me, playing Division One Baseball wasn’t an option.
To you, it is a possibility.
Great game. Great game. Great game.
I think it’s very important for the little girl that plays Little League,
the little girl that plays with her all-boys team in high school,
and for her to see girls, to see women having success in this game,
so that she knows there’s a place for her,
that her dream is not crazy, that it is not impossible,
that she does have a route to take.
We just need to make sure that girls are getting a chance to play today
so that tomorrow they have a chance to represent their countries.
We all care about the game, we have so much passion and love,
for wanting to grow it.
And at the end of the day, just play- do what we love, right?
Yeah, the game that we love
- and that which we will always love. - 100%, yeah.
And that’s why we have to have A League of Our Own again,
so we can have all the women be able to play the game that they love,
and to show the world that the women can play baseball.
And we gotta do it while I’m still on this side of the grass,
and so I can be there to throw out the first pitch.
- Morning. - What’s up. Morning.
- How’s it goin’? - Not too bad.
Lotta people here last night.
Yeah. It was definitely a packed crowd here last night.
Yeah, it was cool to see Canadians out supporting women’s baseball.
Oh look, look who it is.
Brought a friend with you, too.
- Hi, I’m Mariko. Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
I remember seeing you pitching in 2014 when I was 16 years old,
and now here you are again. I don’t know, seeing you pitch
again is really cool.
And, how did it feel to be out here after all that time
and everything like that?
I feel aged.
Fair. Fair.
So that because most of the teammates, they used to say,
“I used to watch you as a little kid.” So I feel really old.
And that’s my teammates now, so I feel--
Yeah. I feel my age right now.
Facing you, I believe...
fastball, curveball, slider?
That’s what we had? Fastball. Curveball.
- Slider. - Slider?
And shoot? Shoot?
- A two-seam? - Two-seam. Two-seam.
- And change up? - I don’t think I saw-
Okay. Yeah, change up.
I think you threw me a slider. I know you did.
You threw me a slider and a curveball. I remember.
Your slider had a really good late break. Almost like a cutter.
- You thought you hit but then it was-- - I got, honestly, all.
Yeah, you’re- don’t wanna lose, right? So it’s like--
I got, curveball, curveball, curveball, curveball, slider.
KEEP CHASING
YOUR DREAMS
DON’T EVER LET GO
KEEP CHASING
YOUR DREAMS
DON’T EVER LET GO
DON’T EVER LET
GIRL YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
I’M ‘BOUT TO SLIP RIGHT BY
AND I’M GONNA SURPRISE
I DO MY THING WITH NO STRESS
I’M IN MY ELEMENT
INHALE, EXHALE, GET READY
GOT SOMETHING NEW FOR YOU BABE
WATCH ME DO MY THING
YOU CAN’T HOLD ME SO JUST LET GO
GIRL YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
THIS IS HOW YOU FEEL
YOU GOTTA LET THEM KNOW
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
SAID YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
YOU GOTTA TELL THE WORLD
YOU UNSTOPPABLE
OPEN UP THE GATE FOR ME
AND PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE
THERE COMES A TIME IN YOUR LIFE
YOU DO WHAT’S WRONG OR WHAT’S RIGHT
MY MOMMA DIDN’T RAISE NO FOOL BUT I’M
ABOUT TO CHANGE ALL THE RULES SO AH
DON’T YOU DARE GET IN MY PATH
‘CAUSE I GO FIRST AND YOU GO LAST
YOU CAN’T HOLD ME SO JUST LET GO
GOTTA LET IT GO
YOU CAN’T HOLD ME SO JUST LET GO
KEEP CHASING YOUR DREAMS
DON’T EVER LET GO