{"id":38113,"date":"2020-03-03T07:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38113"},"modified":"2020-03-03T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T23:43:18","slug":"all-world-team-and-mvp-u-18-mens-softball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=38113","title":{"rendered":"All-World Team and MVP: U-18 Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Hitto Nagayoshi took home the MVP award at the U-18 Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a triple treat for Japan\u2019s Hitto Nagayoshi, who took home MVP honours, was named in the All-World Team, and won a world championship this afternoon in Palmerston North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Congratulations to the young men named on the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/U18SoftballMWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#U18SoftballMWC<\/a> All-World Team!<br><br>FULL STORY: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Up3hWDhTsr\">https:\/\/t.co\/Up3hWDhTsr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MJNItnjL22\">pic.twitter.com\/MJNItnjL22<\/a>\u2014 WBSC Softball ? (@WBSCsoftball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBSCsoftball\/status\/1233983706273992704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most Valuable Player and second baseman: Hitto Nagayoshi (JPN)<\/strong><br>Nagayoshi was near-unstoppable during the U-18 Men\u2019s Softball World Cup, putting pressure on opposition defences all week. Five of Nagayoshi\u2019s seven hits went for extra bases, as he lead the competition in triples and made zero defensive errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nagayoshi\u2019s best game came against host nation New Zealand on opening night, as he went 3-for-3 with two triples and six RBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u18mswc.wbsc.org\/en\/2020\/news\/all-world-team-u-18-mens-softball-world-cup\">Click here to read full story at the Official WBSC Tournament website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Hitto Nagayoshi took home the MVP award at the U-18 Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup. It was a triple treat for Japan\u2019s Hitto Nagayoshi, who took home MVP honours, was named in the All-World Team, and won a world championship this afternoon in Palmerston North. Congratulations to the young men named on the 2020 #U18SoftballMWC [&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":[28,82,27],"tags":[1012,73,562],"class_list":{"0":"post-38113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-wbsc","9":"category-youth","10":"tag-u18softballmwc","11":"tag-wbsc","12":"tag-wbscsoftball","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38113","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=38113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38116,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38113\/revisions\/38116"}],"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=38113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}