{"id":68939,"date":"2026-03-13T23:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/usa-see-off-canada-to-book-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-with-dominican-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:55:41","slug":"usa-see-off-canada-to-book-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-with-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/usa-see-off-canada-to-book-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-with-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"USA see off Canada to book World Baseball Classic semi-final with Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Judge keys early surge as US top Canada 5-3<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Americans advance to face Dominican Republic<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Miller fans side in ninth to seal quarter-final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aaron Judge doubled and Pete Crow-Armstrong and Brice Turang each had two hits as the United States beat Canada 5-3 on Friday night to reach the World Baseball Classic semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The US squad rebounded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/italy-usa-upset-world-baseball-classic-crow-armstrong-japan\">after an 8-6 loss to Italy<\/a> in pool play left them needing help to advance to this round.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/13\/us-beat-canada-reach-wbc-semis-dominican-republic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge keys early surge as US top Canada 5-3 Americans advance to face Dominican Republic Miller fans side in ninth to seal quarter-final Aaron Judge doubled and Pete Crow-Armstrong and Brice Turang each had two hits as the United States beat Canada 5-3 on Friday night to reach the World Baseball Classic semifinals. The US &#8230; <a title=\"USA see off Canada to book World Baseball Classic semi-final with Dominican Republic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/usa-see-off-canada-to-book-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-with-dominican-republic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA see off Canada to book World Baseball Classic semi-final with Dominican Republic\">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-68939","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\/68939","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=68939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}