{"id":614271,"date":"2026-03-09T03:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/614271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:48:34","slug":"yoshida-adds-another-chapter-to-his-world-baseball-classic-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/614271\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshida adds another chapter to his World Baseball Classic legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be time for Samurai Japan fans to start calling Masataka Yoshida by a new name: Mr. World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe Boston Red Sox slugger added to his WBC resume with another huge moment on Sunday, lifting Japan to a 4-3 victory over Australia with a go-ahead two-run home run in the seventh inning at Tokyo Dome. The win clinched Pool C for Japan, which already had a place in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s powerful lineup, which scored 13 runs against Taiwan on Friday and eight against South Korea on Saturday, ground to a halt against the Australians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be time for Samurai Japan fans to start calling Masataka Yoshida by a new name: Mr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,48,792,2353,2352,35650,4820],"class_list":{"0":"post-614271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-masataka-yoshida","11":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","12":"tag-npb","13":"tag-samurai-japan","14":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116197176971748304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614271","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=614271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}