{"id":522296,"date":"2026-03-06T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:25:06","slug":"australia-beats-the-czech-republic-5-1-to-stay-undefeated-in-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522296\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia beats the Czech Republic 5-1 to stay undefeated in the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MR2RKCVT5FEG3OWMVJFWRH6K3Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Australia defeated the Czech Republic 5-1 on Friday behind a three-run homer from Chicago White Sox infielder Curtis Mead to remain unbeaten in Pool C in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-baseball-classic-australia-3dcdd7d467148b33329f26ab5aae8c7a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Baseball Classic. <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SXJZQ6TEAFHWTJCCBD27OA57SI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Australia is lining up among the favorites from Tokyo to reach the quarterfinals along with home team Japan. Japan is the defending champion and many expect a final in Miami on March 17 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-baseball-classic-21455fa184035174aff4f1ad8939db78\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia defeated the Czech Republic 5-1 on Friday behind a three-run homer from Chicago White Sox infielder Curtis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[260420,64,63,260415,591,260416,6784,234084,260418,135818,260419,260417,85],"class_list":["post-522296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-2026-mlb-schedule","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bbi-wbc-rdp","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-2026-news","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-highlights","tag-mlb-latest-news","tag-mlb-news","tag-mlb-schedule-2026","tag-mlb-scores","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}