{"id":112950,"date":"2026-03-11T22:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/italy-crushes-in-the-world-baseball-classic-pasquantino-makes-history-and-advances-to-the-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:45:24","slug":"italy-crushes-in-the-world-baseball-classic-pasquantino-makes-history-and-advances-to-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/italy-crushes-in-the-world-baseball-classic-pasquantino-makes-history-and-advances-to-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy crushes in the World Baseball Classic: Pasquantino makes history and advances to the quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Italy Dominates Mexico and Secures First Place in the 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n\n\nHouston \u2013 The Italian baseball team demonstrated its prowess at Daikin Park by defeating Mexico with a resounding score of 9-1, thus securing first place in Group B in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.\n\nThe game was marked by the stellar performance of Vinnie Pasquantino, who made history by hitting three home runs, becoming the first player to achieve this feat in a single tournament game.\n\nWith this victory, Italy finished the group stage with a perfect 4-0 record, eliminating Mexico from the tournament and advancing to the quarterfinals.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>Italy demonstrated its superiority on the field, securing its place in the next round.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nPitcher Aaron Nola also had an outstanding performance, working five innings in which he allowed only four hits and one walk, while striking out five batters.\n\nThe Italian offense made itself felt early, with a solo home run by Pasquantino in the second inning against starting pitcher Javier Assad. Jon Berti extended the lead with another home run in the fourth inning.\n\nIn the fifth inning, Italy continued its attack with three runs, putting the score at 5-0. Pasquantino stood out again with two more home runs, in the sixth and eighth chapters, sealing his historic night.\n\nIn addition to Italy&#8217;s advance, the result also allowed the classification of the United States, which managed to secure its place in the next round and will face Canada in the quarterfinals.\n\nWith explosive batting, solid pitching, and outstanding defense, Italy established itself as one of the surprises of the tournament and will now seek to continue making history in the next phase.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy Dominates Mexico and Secures First Place in the 2026 World Baseball Classic Houston \u2013 The Italian baseball team demonstrated its prowess at Daikin Park by defeating Mexico with a resounding score of 9-1, thus securing first place in Group B in the 2026 World Baseball Classic. The game was marked by the stellar performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1117,512,1183,2010],"class_list":{"0":"post-112950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-home-runs","9":"tag-italy","10":"tag-mexico","11":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112950","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=112950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}