{"id":68368,"date":"2026-03-07T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/aaron-judge-sets-tone-as-usa-trounce-brazil-to-launch-world-baseball-classic-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:57:17","slug":"aaron-judge-sets-tone-as-usa-trounce-brazil-to-launch-world-baseball-classic-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/aaron-judge-sets-tone-as-usa-trounce-brazil-to-launch-world-baseball-classic-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge sets tone as USA trounce Brazil to launch World Baseball Classic campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Judge homers as US rout Brazil in WBC opener<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Turang drives in four runs as US draw 17 walks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Manny Ramirez\u2019s son hits two homers for Brazil<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer and Brice Turang had three hits and four RBIs to lead the United States to a 15-5 win over Brazil in their World Baseball Classic opener Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>There was one out and one on in the first when Judge, the first player to commit to the team last April, connected off Bo Takahashi at Houston\u2019s Daikin Park.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/07\/aaron-judge-usa-brazil-world-baseball-classic-opener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge homers as US rout Brazil in WBC opener Turang drives in four runs as US draw 17 walks Manny Ramirez\u2019s son hits two homers for Brazil Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer and Brice Turang had three hits and four RBIs to lead the United States to a 15-5 win over Brazil in their &#8230; <a title=\"Aaron Judge sets tone as USA trounce Brazil to launch World Baseball Classic campaign\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/aaron-judge-sets-tone-as-usa-trounce-brazil-to-launch-world-baseball-classic-campaign\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aaron Judge sets tone as USA trounce Brazil to launch World Baseball Classic campaign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}