{"id":38099,"date":"2020-02-29T06:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38099"},"modified":"2020-02-29T06:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T14:08:41","slug":"wbsc-u-18-mens-softball-world-cup-day-8-japan-head-into-final-against-australia-with-perfect-win-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38099","title":{"rendered":"WBSC U-18 Men\u2019s Softball World Cup &#8211; Day 8: Japan head into final against Australia with perfect win-record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Two Games Today<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wbsc_u-18_pos_landscape_location_tonal_cmyk_big-1024x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38048\" width=\"512\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wbsc_u-18_pos_landscape_location_tonal_cmyk_big-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wbsc_u-18_pos_landscape_location_tonal_cmyk_big-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wbsc_u-18_pos_landscape_location_tonal_cmyk_big-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wbsc_u-18_pos_landscape_location_tonal_cmyk_big-1536x618.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wbsc_u-18_pos_landscape_location_tonal_cmyk_big-2048x824.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After sweeping the two rounds of the U-18 Men&#8217;s Softball World Championship, Japan will make their seventh appearance in the final of the age-group tournament looking to reverse the result of the final two years ago when they lost to Australia 6-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan is headed into the gold medal game on Sunday with an unblemished win-record, following their triumph over the Czech Republic, while their final rival Australia bounced back with a victory over New Zealand in the Super Round of the U-18 Men\u2019s Softball World Cup in Palmerston North, New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C<a href=\"https:\/\/u18mswc.wbsc.org\/en\/2020\/news\/page\">lick here for full story and recap of second-to-the-last-day of the World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Two Games Today After sweeping the two rounds of the U-18 Men&#8217;s Softball World Championship, Japan will make their seventh appearance in the final of the age-group tournament looking to reverse the result of the final two years ago when they lost to Australia 6-1. Japan is headed into the gold medal game on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9,35,82,27],"tags":[1012],"class_list":{"0":"post-38099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-international","9":"category-oceania","10":"category-wbsc","11":"category-youth","12":"tag-u18softballmwc","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38100,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38099\/revisions\/38100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}