{"id":69030,"date":"2026-03-15T23:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/blown-call-ends-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-as-usa-squeeze-past-dominican-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:58:49","slug":"blown-call-ends-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-as-usa-squeeze-past-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/blown-call-ends-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-as-usa-squeeze-past-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Blown call ends World Baseball Classic semi-final as USA squeeze past Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/mar\/15\/usa-v-dominican-republic-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-live\">As it happened: USA 2-1 Dominican Republic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Americans will play Italy or Venezuela in final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gunnar Henderson and Roman Anthony homered and the United States limited the Dominican Republic\u2019s electric offense to win a thrilling semi-final 2-1 on Sunday and move one win from capturing its second World Baseball Classic championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Republic threatened in the ninth when Julio Rodr\u00edguez drew a walk and advanced to third against Mason Miller. With two outs, Miller struck out Geraldo Perdomo for his second save but the final pitch \u2013 on a full count and with the dangerous Fernando Tatis Jr up next \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WBCBaseball\/status\/2033379153316139058\">was several inches below the strike zone.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/09\/mlb-automated-ball-strike-challenge-system\">ABS<\/a> is not a part of the World Baseball Classic, so the Dominicans \u2013 who benefited from some missed calls themselves \u2013 were unable to challenge. Although the Americans\u2019 excellent pitching won the game rather than the umpiring, it was a dismal way to end what had been an enthralling contest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/15\/usa-dominican-republic-world-baseball-classic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it happened: USA 2-1 Dominican Republic Americans will play Italy or Venezuela in final Gunnar Henderson and Roman Anthony homered and the United States limited the Dominican Republic\u2019s electric offense to win a thrilling semi-final 2-1 on Sunday and move one win from capturing its second World Baseball Classic championship. The Dominican Republic threatened &#8230; <a title=\"Blown call ends World Baseball Classic semi-final as USA squeeze past Dominican Republic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/blown-call-ends-world-baseball-classic-semi-final-as-usa-squeeze-past-dominican-republic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blown call ends World Baseball Classic semi-final as USA squeeze past 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-69030","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\/69030","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=69030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}