{"id":700660,"date":"2021-06-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/700660\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:00:00","slug":"why-the-2007-japan-series-still-haunts-daisuke-yamai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/700660\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the 2007 Japan Series Still Haunts Daisuke Yamai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Why the 2007 Japan Series Still Haunts Daisuke Yamai\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-dyEHuOTt8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nUnder the management of Hiromitsu Ochiai, the Chunichi Dragons were playing their best baseball in decades, but they fell short in the Japan Series in 2004 and 2006. The Dragons would go on to win the Japan Series for the first time in 53 years in 2007, but one man is still haunted by what could have been&#8230;perfection.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more NPB content in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the management of Hiromitsu Ochiai, the Chunichi Dragons were playing their best baseball in decades, bu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":700661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10624,8346,198,105,200,2890,111527,92,111530,1752,51,4352,111529,4472,1077,4655,1694,50919,4473,3020,5497,1857,31593,111528,2507],"class_list":{"0":"post-700660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chunichi-dragons","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-npb","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baystars","12":"tag-buffaloes","13":"tag-carp","14":"tag-cosmopolitan","15":"tag-dragons","16":"tag-fielder","17":"tag-fighters","18":"tag-giants","19":"tag-hawks","20":"tag-hitter","21":"tag-japanese-baseball","22":"tag-lions","23":"tag-marines","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-nihon","26":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","27":"tag-pitcher","28":"tag-swallows","29":"tag-tigers","30":"tag-yakyu","31":"tag-yakyu-cosmopolitan","32":"tag-2507"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}