{"id":68676,"date":"2026-03-11T02:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/usa-in-jeopardy-at-world-baseball-classic-after-stunning-loss-to-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:01:46","slug":"usa-in-jeopardy-at-world-baseball-classic-after-stunning-loss-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/usa-in-jeopardy-at-world-baseball-classic-after-stunning-loss-to-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"USA in jeopardy at World Baseball Classic after stunning loss to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Italy stun USA 8-6 to shake up WBC quarter-final race<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Crow-Armstrong hits two HRs but rally falls short<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Japan finish group unbeaten as Murakami hits slam<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kyle Teel, Sam Antonacci and Jac Caglianone homered as Italy built a big lead and held on to stun the United States 8-6 Tuesday night in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The US are done with pool play at Houston\u2019s Daikin Park and need the Italians to beat Mexico Wednesday night to be guaranteed a spot in the quarter-finals. If Mexico beat Italy, the three teams will be knotted at 3-1 and the winners will be determined by a tiebreaker, with the team that allowed the most runs eliminated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/italy-usa-upset-world-baseball-classic-crow-armstrong-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy stun USA 8-6 to shake up WBC quarter-final race Crow-Armstrong hits two HRs but rally falls short Japan finish group unbeaten as Murakami hits slam Kyle Teel, Sam Antonacci and Jac Caglianone homered as Italy built a big lead and held on to stun the United States 8-6 Tuesday night in the World Baseball &#8230; <a title=\"USA in jeopardy at World Baseball Classic after stunning loss to Italy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/usa-in-jeopardy-at-world-baseball-classic-after-stunning-loss-to-italy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA in jeopardy at World Baseball Classic after stunning loss to Italy\">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-68676","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\/68676","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=68676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}