{"id":513741,"date":"2026-03-04T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513741\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:51:06","slug":"shohei-ohtani-is-the-show-again-in-japan-for-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513741\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani is the show again in Japan for the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QCNMM5NTNJD4BDAYYV6DLZKIGY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">TOKYO \u2014 It\u2019s officially named the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aaron-judge-united-states-world-baseball-classic-14a6687f5e767d491ec76b8e4df53473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Baseball Classic<\/a> . But for the Group C games in Japan, simply call it the world according to Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6CN3NECD2RBAHKOPX7SJENBIOM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Ohtani\u2019s life-size image is all over the Tokyo Dome, and racks of Ohtani jerseys \u2014 about $125 each \u2014 dominate the adjacent merchandise center. Japan begins play on Friday against Taiwan with South Korea, Australia and the Czech Republic also in the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 It\u2019s officially named the World Baseball Classic . But for the Group C games in Japan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[203674,203670,49,48,462,203671,4310,92641,203672,111193,203673,91641,85280,82],"class_list":["post-513741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-2026-mlb-schedule","tag-bbi-wbc-ohtani","tag-ca","tag-canada","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-mlb-spring-training","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}