{"id":331252,"date":"2026-03-10T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/331252\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:10:11","slug":"judge-and-anthony-power-u-s-wbc-victory-over-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/331252\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge and Anthony power U.S. WBC victory over Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Judge and Roman Anthony drove in home runs while pitcher Paul Skenes delivered a gem as Team USA punched its ticket to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic on Monday with a 5-3 victory over Mexico in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>New York Yankees slugger Judge hammered a two-run shot to right field off Mexico pitcher Jesus Cruz to give the U.S. a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning in the Pool B clash.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was exposed again soon afterwards when Boston Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony pounced on an 85 mile-an-hour slider to crush a 417-foot homer into right center field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge and Roman Anthony drove in home runs while pitcher Paul Skenes delivered a gem as Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[163288,85,46,1326,41638,105,118408,92298],"class_list":["post-331252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aaron-judge","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mexico","tag-paul-skenes","tag-sports","tag-team-usa","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331252","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=331252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}