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Gloucester softball manager Bryan Aiello knew his team would face some adversity come playoff time \u2014 every good squad does.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about how the Fishermen would respond to that adversity that would decide their fate.<\/p>\n

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Sports Editor Nick Giannino may be contacted at 978-675-2712 or ngiannino@northofboston.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester softball manager Bryan Aiello knew his team would face some adversity come playoff time \u2014 every good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2331,3696,2413,3437,3382,2422,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2322,2307,2326,2327,2321,2332,185,2339,2324,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-72577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-events","13":"tag-baseball-finals","14":"tag-baseball-games","15":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","16":"tag-baseball-teams","17":"tag-batting-order-baseball","18":"tag-bunt-baseball","19":"tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-double-baseball","21":"tag-error-baseball","22":"tag-hit-baseball","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","26":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","27":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","28":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","29":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-mlb-playoffs","32":"tag-mlb-postseason","33":"tag-october-sporting-events","34":"tag-outdoor-sports","35":"tag-run-baseball","36":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","37":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","38":"tag-shortstop","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-sports-competitions","41":"tag-sports-events","42":"tag-team-sports","43":"tag-turf-sports","44":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}