{"id":3942,"date":"2009-09-09T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T07:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2009-10-18T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T15:08:14","slug":"baseball-world-cup-2009-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=3942","title":{"rendered":"Baseball World Cup 2009: Opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4098\" title=\"baseball-worldcup2009\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/baseball-worldcup20091.jpg\" alt=\"baseball-worldcup2009\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Today is\u00c2\u00a0the opening day of the 2009 Baseball World Cup, staged this year in various locations across Europe.\u00c2\u00a0 Although Great Britain do not play until tomorrow, the small matter of a game against Japan, there are four games taking place over four different venues today: Prague, Barcelona, Sundbyberg and Regensburg.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latter venue will host Germany&#8217;s opening game against China.\u00c2\u00a0 The ballpark in Regensburg has undergone an impressive renovation for the World Cup and the games there will be a great way to sell the sport, particularly the home nation&#8217;s contest against the USA on Friday.\u00c2\u00a0 Gemany-China is being broadcast on Eurosport2, and on the Eurosport website, with first pitch scheduled for approximately 18.00 BST.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, head over to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2009baseballworldcup.com\" target=\"_blank\">2009 Baseball World Cup website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is\u00c2\u00a0the opening day of the 2009 Baseball World Cup, staged this year in various locations across Europe.\u00c2\u00a0 Although Great Britain do not play until tomorrow, the small matter of a game against Japan, there are four games taking place over four different venues today: Prague, Barcelona, Sundbyberg and Regensburg.\u00c2\u00a0 The latter venue will host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[63,64],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-baseball-2","tag-great-britain","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5438,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}