{"id":893082,"date":"2026-03-20T04:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/italy-advances-to-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:11:56","slug":"italy-advances-to-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/italy-advances-to-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy advances to World Baseball Classic quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n                <main data-url=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.it\/20260312\/italy-advances-to-world-baseball-classic-quarter-finals\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"47\" height=\"47\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.thelocal.com\/cdn-cgi\/rs:fit:47\/quality:75\/plain\/https:\/\/apiwp.thelocal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/afp-logo-1-4.jpg@webp\" alt=\"AFP\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span><br \/>\n                                                                        <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.it\/author\/afp-11\">AFP<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <span \n                data-original-string='Okahk1MZ\/7O4br2epwWQYw==7f4b+i16uZBjcXhy6lWFJ8z+oY7BVAnNYztGhBgqrQyL48='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. 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To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ne<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>al.it<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                    <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Published: 12 Mar, 2026 CET.<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <span>Updated: Thu 12 Mar 2026 16:53 CET<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure>\n                            <img width=\"850\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.thelocal.com\/cdn-cgi\/rs:fit:850\/quality:75\/plain\/https:\/\/apiwp.thelocal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFP__20260312__2266033700__v2__MidRes__2026WorldBaseballClassicPoolBItalyVMexico.jpg@webp\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Italy advances to World Baseball Classic quarter-finals\"><figcaption>Italy is heading to the quarter-finals on Saturday, March 14th 2026. Photo by Kenneth Richmond \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n                        Unbeaten Italy advanced to the World Baseball Classic quarter-finals by routing Mexico 9-1 on Wednesday, allowing the fancied collection of United States stars into the last eight as well.\n                    <\/p>\n<div id=\"article_ad_container\">\n<p><h3>Advertisement<\/h3>\n<p><googlead-js :data=\"{\"current_editorial\":\"it\",\"name\":\"mpu_1\",\"size\":\"[[300,250]]\",\"css_class\":\"\",\"component_mode\":\"protag\",\"element_prefix\":\"protag-\",\"ad_unit_path_prefix\":\"\/1774138\",\"provider_key\":\"protag\"}\"><\/googlead-js><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p id=\"articleBodyForbidden\">Please sign up or log in to continue reading<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>More<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-comments\">\n<div data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#comments-collapsible\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"comments-collapsible\" aria-label=\"Show comments\">\n<h3>Comments <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"comments-collapsible\">\n<p>\n                <strong>Join the conversation in our comments section below.<\/strong> Share your own views and experience and if you have a question or suggestion for our journalists then email us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.it\/mailto:ne**@******al.it\" data-original-string=\"AxgtTkbyAbHdHWbdmawZiw==7f4dHxFuwjmTBuB\/nYgWxD7TacWyAll\/HvWejLY5\/PXhKY=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. 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Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ne<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>al.it<\/span> Published: 12 Mar, 2026 CET. Updated: Thu 12 Mar 2026 16:53 CET Italy is heading to the quarter-finals on Saturday, March 14th 2026. Photo by Kenneth Richmond \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP Unbeaten Italy advanced to the World Baseball Classic quarter-finals by routing Mexico 9-1 on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32598,2379],"tags":[8285,16096],"class_list":{"0":"post-893082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-advances","8":"category-italy","9":"tag-advances","10":"tag-italy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}