{"id":516499,"date":"2026-03-11T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516499\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:21:10","slug":"italy-stuns-united-states-8-6-in-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516499\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy stuns United States 8-6 in World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      HOUSTON \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Italy pulled off a stunning 8-6 upset over the United States in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday, leaving the star-studded host facing possible elimination from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Italy \u2014 whose team is made up mostly of American players with Italian heritage \u2014 roared into an 8-0 lead after home runs from catcher Kyle Teel, shortstop Sam Antonacci and outfielder Jac Caglianone.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. rallied in the late innings to set up a nervy finale, but Italy held on to seal a famous win in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Italy pulled off a stunning 8-6 upset over the United States in the World Baseball Classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,6801,3,42270,21,19,22,20,25,24,72364],"class_list":["post-516499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-italy","tag-news","tag-team-usa","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516499","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=516499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}