{"id":315806,"date":"2026-03-01T05:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315806\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:17:10","slug":"at-wbc-aussies-eye-another-strong-showing-and-no-self-inflicted-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/315806\/","title":{"rendered":"At WBC, Aussies eye another strong showing \u2014 and no self-inflicted wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Nilsson can see the question coming like a fastball down the middle. The former catcher \u2014 one of the scant few to have worn the mask in both MLB and NPB \u2014 leans forward in his chair and lets out a chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, go ahead,\u201d he smiles. \u201cWhy not give it to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nilsson, known to many of his fans inside and outside Japan as \u201cDingo,\u201d managed Australia to its best-ever showing at a World Baseball Classic in 2023, when the team upset South Korea in its first game and went on to reach the quarterfinals. The Aussies nearly made it to the semifinals, losing in a tight one-run contest against Cuba in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Nilsson can see the question coming like a fastball down the middle. The former catcher \u2014 one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[972,157729,85,46,105,92298],"class_list":{"0":"post-315806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dave-nilsson","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}