{"id":18648,"date":"2015-03-07T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18648"},"modified":"2015-03-07T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T16:42:51","slug":"team-europe-versus-japan-on-eurosport-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18648","title":{"rendered":"Team Europe versus Japan on Eurosport 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a treat to enjoy this week as an addition to the standard round of Spring Training games.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a team representing European baseball will take to the diamond in Tokyo in a two-game exhibition series against Japan. <\/p>\n<p>A Major League team made the same trip back in November and it&#8217;s a real mark of respect towards European baseball that Japan has been so keen to host a similar event with some of the best European talent not currently part of MLB organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly the majority of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbsc.co\/2015-european-roster.html\">playing and support staff<\/a> are connected to Italy and the Netherlands, historically the two powerhouses in Europe, but a few other countries are represented as well. Great Britain is not among them, yet events like this are a good indicator of how baseball is developing in the continent and that there are potential opportunities for British players to progress as part of this in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Europe and Japan will play against each other on Tuesday and Wednesday. The games will be shown live on British Eurosport 2 from 9 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Further details about the exhibition series can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibaf.org\/en\/\">International Baseball Federation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a treat to enjoy this week as an addition to the standard round of Spring Training games. For the first time, a team representing European baseball will take to the diamond in Tokyo in a two-game exhibition series against Japan. A Major League team made the same trip back in November and it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[552,549],"class_list":["post-18648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-europe","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18649,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18648\/revisions\/18649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}