{"id":524699,"date":"2026-03-15T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524699\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:45:15","slug":"japan-eliminated-in-wbc-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/524699\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Eliminated in WBC Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMar 15, 2026 17:19 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Miami, March 14 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japan lost to Venezuela 8-5 in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic on Saturday, marking the first time that the Asian powerhouse, a three-time WBC champion, has missed a semifinal spot in the history of the international baseball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In the game at LoanDepot Park in Miami, designated hitter Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a solo home run in the bottom of the first inning to help Japan catch up with Venezuela 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the third inning, Shota Morishita of the Hanshin Tigers slugged a three-run homer, with the Japanese national team, nicknamed Samurai Japan, taking a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>After Venezuela scored two runs in the fifth inning, Japanese right-hander Hiromi Ito of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters gave up a three-run home run in the sixth inning, allowing the South American country to overtake Samurai Japan 7-5. Venezuela added one more run in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers, who started the game for Japan, allowed two runs in four innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2970562.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2970562\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2970562.jpg\" data-libid=\"2970562\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2970563.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2970563\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2970563.jpg\" data-libid=\"2970563\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2970564.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2970564\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2970564.jpg\" data-libid=\"2970564\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Sports Mar 15, 2026 17:19 (JST) Miami, March 14 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japan lost to Venezuela 8-5 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[123415,363,99],"class_list":["post-524699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-jiji-press","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524699","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=524699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}