{"id":111882,"date":"2026-03-07T05:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/aranda-hits-home-run-key-mexico-beats-great-britain-in-the-world-baseball-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:04:57","slug":"aranda-hits-home-run-key-mexico-beats-great-britain-in-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/aranda-hits-home-run-key-mexico-beats-great-britain-in-the-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Aranda Hits Home Run Key: Mexico Beats Great Britain in the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mexico Debuts with a Commanding Victory in the 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n\nHOUSTON \u2013 The Mexican national team began its participation in Group B of the 2026 World Baseball Classic with a convincing 8-2 victory over Great Britain, in a match held at Daikin Park.\n\nThe game, which remained tied until the eighth inning, witnessed an exciting turnaround thanks to Jonathan Aranda&#8217;s bat.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A three-run home run by Jonathan Aranda in the eighth inning broke the tie and led Mexico to victory.<\/p><cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAranda, the Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; initial hitter, hit a 346-foot hit against a 96.8-mile-per-hour fastball from reliever Tristan Beck, driving in Jarren Duran and Randy Arozarena, who had received walks.\n\nThis hit marked the turning point of the game, allowing Mexico to take a crucial lead.\n\nThe Mexican team secured their victory with four additional runs in the ninth inning.\n\nAranda, arrives at the tournament in excellent form after a standout 2025 season, where he batted .315 with 14 home runs in the Major Leagues.\n\nMexico took the lead early in the game thanks to a solo home run by Nacho \u00c1lvarez Jr. in the second inning.\n\nGreat Britain tied the score in the sixth inning with a home run by Harry Ford.\n\nWith this result, Mexico takes an important step in its aspirations within the tournament, after having reached the semifinals in the 2023 edition before falling to the eventual champion, Japan Selection.\n\nMexico&#8217;s next challenge will be on Sunday night against the Brazilian National Team, at the same Daikin Park, where they will seek to consolidate their position with a 2-0 record.\n\nGreat Britain will seek recovery on Saturday against United States Selection.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico Debuts with a Commanding Victory in the 2026 World Baseball Classic HOUSTON \u2013 The Mexican national team began its participation in Group B of the 2026 World Baseball Classic with a convincing 8-2 victory over Great Britain, in a match held at Daikin Park. The game, which remained tied until the eighth inning, witnessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[87,6706,1183,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-111882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-home-run","9":"tag-jonathan-aranda","10":"tag-mexico","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}