{"id":69255,"date":"2026-03-17T23:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/venezuela-win-first-world-baseball-classic-title-after-taming-usa-in-politically-fraught-final\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:00:51","slug":"venezuela-win-first-world-baseball-classic-title-after-taming-usa-in-politically-fraught-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/venezuela-win-first-world-baseball-classic-title-after-taming-usa-in-politically-fraught-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela win first World Baseball Classic title after taming USA in politically fraught final"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Su\u00e1rez double seals Venezuela\u2019s first WBC title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Harper HR ties it, but USA fall short in ninth<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Politics loom as Venezuela stun US in final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2 on Tuesday night to win their first World Baseball Classic title, a landmark triumph in a politically charged final that resonated far beyond the diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Eugenio Su\u00e1rez drove in the winning run in the top of the ninth inning to seal a dramatic victory for the South American side at Miami\u2019s LoanDepot Park.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/17\/venezuela-beat-usa-wbc-final-suarez-trump-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Su\u00e1rez double seals Venezuela\u2019s first WBC title Harper HR ties it, but USA fall short in ninth Politics loom as Venezuela stun US in final Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2 on Tuesday night to win their first World Baseball Classic title, a landmark triumph in a politically charged final that resonated far beyond the &#8230; <a title=\"Venezuela win first World Baseball Classic title after taming USA in politically fraught final\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/venezuela-win-first-world-baseball-classic-title-after-taming-usa-in-politically-fraught-final\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Venezuela win first World Baseball Classic title after taming USA in politically fraught final\">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-69255","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\/69255","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=69255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}