{"id":530095,"date":"2026-03-11T22:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530095\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:51:10","slug":"long-time-coming-sports-world-reacts-to-canadas-historic-wbc-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530095\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Long time coming&#8217;: Sports world reacts to Canada&#8217;s historic WBC win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By defeating Cuba in the final game of pool play, Canada earned a World Baseball Classic quarterfinal berth for the first time in tournament history. <\/p>\n<p>And in doing so, they also dashed the dreams of Cuba, who will miss the tournament&#8217;s knockout round for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>The win, in addition to Tuesday&#8217;s victory against Puerto Rico, catapults Canada to the top of Pool A. <\/p>\n<p>Canada now awaits the Pool B runner-up for their next win-or-go-home matchup in Houston, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the best reactions from around the sports world on Canada&#8217;s historic victory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By defeating Cuba in the final game of pool play, Canada earned a World Baseball Classic quarterfinal berth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-530095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530095","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=530095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}