{"id":68444,"date":"2026-03-08T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/emperor-naruhito-watches-ohtani-and-japan-survive-scare-against-australia-at-world-baseball-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:59:23","slug":"emperor-naruhito-watches-ohtani-and-japan-survive-scare-against-australia-at-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/emperor-naruhito-watches-ohtani-and-japan-survive-scare-against-australia-at-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Naruhito watches Ohtani and Japan survive scare against Australia at World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Masataka Yoshida\u2019s late HR helps seal 4-3 win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Naruhito first emperor in 60 years to attend baseball<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Masataka Yoshida\u2019s late home run triggered a comeback win for Japan over Australia at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/05\/world-baseball-classic-2026\">the World Baseball Classic<\/a> on Sunday, with Emperor Naruhito made a rare appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The underdog Aussies struck first in the sixth inning of the group stage game when outfielder Aaron Whitefield came home after a throwing error by Japan\u2019s catcher, Kenya Wakatsuki. But in the seventh, Yoshida connected with a two-run shot over right centre field. Japan put on two more insurance runs in the eighth, and hung on for the 4-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/08\/emperor-naruhito-watches-ohtani-and-japan-survive-scare-against-australia-at-world-baseball-classic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masataka Yoshida\u2019s late HR helps seal 4-3 win Naruhito first emperor in 60 years to attend baseball Masataka Yoshida\u2019s late home run triggered a comeback win for Japan over Australia at the World Baseball Classic on Sunday, with Emperor Naruhito made a rare appearance. The underdog Aussies struck first in the sixth inning of the &#8230; <a title=\"Emperor Naruhito watches Ohtani and Japan survive scare against Australia at World Baseball Classic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/emperor-naruhito-watches-ohtani-and-japan-survive-scare-against-australia-at-world-baseball-classic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Emperor Naruhito watches Ohtani and Japan survive scare against Australia at World Baseball Classic\">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-68444","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\/68444","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=68444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}