{"id":429425,"date":"2023-03-08T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429425"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:07:38","slug":"panama-upset-taiwan-12-5-for-first-win-at-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panama-upset-taiwan-12-5-for-first-win-at-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama upset Taiwan 12-5 for first win at World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 12 Panama defeated Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) 12-5 in the World Baseball Classic&#8217;s Group A match held at Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taichung.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Panama wins its 1st <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldBaseballClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WorldBaseballClassic<\/a> game! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qaWWhsumx9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qaWWhsumx9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBCBaseball\/status\/1633486150236008450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>More than 15,000 fans enjoyed an emotional moment as legendary closer Mariano Rivera threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a MOment at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldBaseballClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WorldBaseballClassic<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Legendary closer Mariano Rivera threw out the 1st pitch before the Panama-Chinese Taipei game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rjxZiZZuQY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rjxZiZZuQY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1633464791795912704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Switch-hitting second baseman Jonathan Arauz had three RBIs. Designated hitter Erasmo Caballero, Panama&#8217;s National League MVP, a WBSC U-23 Baseball World Cup alum, and first baseman Jadhiel Santamaria had two.<\/p>\n<p>Five Panama hitters had a multi-hit game, including Arauz, Santamaria, MLB veterans Christian Bethancourt and Ruben Tejada, and right fielder Luis Castillo.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan, undergoing a generational change in the national team, combined 13 hits, including a two-run home run by Nien-Ting Wu off reliever Wilfredo Pereira in the bottom of the seventh, the first of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts failed to produce runs, leaving ten runners on base, including seven in scoring position. Panama&#8217;s defense proved a factor.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/netherlands-stun-cuba-in-world-baseball-classic-opener\/\">Netherlands defeated Cuba<\/a>, featuring MLB players for the first time, 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>On day 2, the Netherlands will face Panama, while Cuba will play No. 15 Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Taipei will have a rest day on Thursday, 9 March, while Panama will play No. 7 Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 12 Panama defeated Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) 12-5 in the World Baseball Classic&#8217;s Group A match held at Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":429426,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18041,17483],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Legendary closer Mariano Rivera threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429425"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429425"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}