{"id":1570,"date":"2013-03-09T21:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2013-03-09T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T03:08:19","slug":"mexico-and-canada-brawl-in-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/09\/mexico-and-canada-brawl-in-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico and Canada brawl in World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1571\" alt=\"wbcbrawl\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/wbcbrawl.png\" width=\"680\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/wbcbrawl.png 680w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/wbcbrawl-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The World Baseball Classic finally saw some life on Saturday as a bench clearing brawl took place between Team Canada and Team Mexico. Up 9-3 in the ninth inning, a Canadian player bunted for a hit. Luis Cruz was caught off guard by the play and instructed pitcher Arnold Leon to hit the next batter.<\/p>\n<p>Ledo missed on his first attempt and got a warning from the home plate umpire. Nonetheless he connected on his next try and the benches cleared.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/web.worldbaseballclassic.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=25699601&amp;width=400&amp;height=224&amp;property=wbc\" height=\"224\" width=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Normally bunting while up by six runs is frowned upon in baesball but the World Baseball Classic puts an emphasis on run differential due to the small among of games.<\/p>\n<p>Canada would score another rand win by a 10-3 score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Baseball Classic finally saw some life on Saturday as a bench clearing brawl took place between Team Canada and Team Mexico. Up 9-3 in the ninth inning, a Canadian player bunted for a hit. Luis Cruz was caught off guard by the play and instructed pitcher Arnold Leon to hit the next batter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}