{"id":68774,"date":"2026-03-11T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/us-reach-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals-after-getting-needed-help-from-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:56:10","slug":"us-reach-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals-after-getting-needed-help-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/us-reach-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals-after-getting-needed-help-from-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"US reach World Baseball Classic quarter-finals after getting needed help from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Pasquantino lifts Italy with historic effort<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US reach quarter-finals despite loss to Italy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Canada beat Cuba to win group in San Juan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vinnie Pasquantino had the World Baseball Classic\u2019s first three-homer game, leading Italy over Mexico 9-1 on Wednesday night to win Pool B and advance the United States to the quarter-finals as group\u2019s second-place team.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s victory ended a day of uncertainty for the Americans, who needed help to reach the quarter-finals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/italy-usa-upset-world-baseball-classic-crow-armstrong-japan\">after losing to Italy 8-6<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/vinnie-pasquantino-italy-mexico-usa-canada-world-baseball-classic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasquantino lifts Italy with historic effort US reach quarter-finals despite loss to Italy Canada beat Cuba to win group in San Juan Vinnie Pasquantino had the World Baseball Classic\u2019s first three-homer game, leading Italy over Mexico 9-1 on Wednesday night to win Pool B and advance the United States to the quarter-finals as group\u2019s second-place &#8230; <a title=\"US reach World Baseball Classic quarter-finals after getting needed help from Italy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/us-reach-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals-after-getting-needed-help-from-italy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US reach World Baseball Classic quarter-finals after getting needed help from 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-68774","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\/68774","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=68774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}