{"id":609244,"date":"2026-03-06T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/609244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:25:12","slug":"australia-beats-czechia-5-1-to-stay-undefeated-in-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/609244\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Beats Czechia 5-1 To Stay Undefeated In The World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia<\/a> defeated Czechia 5-1 on Friday behind a three-run homer from Chicago White Sox<\/a> infielder Curtis Mead<\/a> to remain unbeaten in Pool C in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n

Australia is lining up among the favorites from Tokyo to reach the quarterfinals along with home team Japan<\/a>. Japan is the defending champion and many expect a final in Miami on March 17 against the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curtis Mead crushes three-run home, giving Australia the lead over Czechia \"Curtis<\/a> <\/p>\n

Curtis Mead crushed three-run home to give Australia the lead over Czechia. <\/p>\n

Mead’s homer in the third put Australia up 3-1 after the Czechs failed to convert a double play early in the inning that eventually gave Mead a chance to bat. Australia added two runs in the ninth, including a solo home run by Alex Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Czechs took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second on a sacrifice fly by Vojtech Mensik.<\/p>\n

Josh Hendrickson was the winning pitcher and Tomas Ondra got the loss.<\/p>\n

Australia improved to 2-0 in Pool C and the Czechs fell to 0-2. Australia reached the quarterfinals three years ago in the last WBC<\/a> but lost to Cuba<\/a> 4-3.<\/p>\n

The Australians have several players with MLB<\/a> organizations including Mead. There\u2019s also Travis Bazzana<\/a>, the first pick in the 2024 MLB amateur draft taken by the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Japan and its superstar Shohei Ohtani<\/a> play their first game in the WBC later Friday facing Taiwan. Taiwan lost to Australia 3-0 in its opener on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia defeated Czechia 5-1 on Friday behind a three-run homer from Chicago White Sox infielder Curtis Mead to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18955,5,76469,2372,19,4,12569,4820],"class_list":["post-609244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-event_recap","tag-japan","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-travis-bazzana","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116180806974918044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}