{"id":502318,"date":"2026-03-04T02:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502318\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:07:07","slug":"aaron-judge-and-u-s-stars-eye-japan-revenge-in-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502318\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge and U.S. stars eye Japan revenge in World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Miami \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>A U.S. &#8220;dream team&#8221; led by Aaron Judge will seek revenge against Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s defending champions Japan in the World Baseball Classic, as the sport&#8217;s premier international competition begins Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-week tournament&#8217;s sixth edition features 20 teams in games spread across Japan, Puerto Rico and the mainland United States, with the semifinals and final to be played in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The last edition in 2023 saw Japan edge the U.S. in a nail-biting thriller for a record third crown, and this year&#8217;s American captain, Judge, has gathered an impressive roster of top MLB stars in a bid to reclaim the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami \u2013 A U.S. &#8220;dream team&#8221; led by Aaron Judge will seek revenge against Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s defending champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4260,363,3956,99,2830,72364],"class_list":["post-502318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-mlb","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-u-s","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}