{"id":2801667,"date":"2026-03-29T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2801667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:14:57","slug":"samurai-japans-kenya-wakatsuki-throws-bad-throw-allowing-australia-to-score-first-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2801667\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Japan&#8217;s Kenya Wakatsuki throws bad throw, allowing Australia to score first | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samurai Japan&#8217;s Kenya Wakatsuki makes a costly bad throw, allowing Australia to score the first run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    March 8, 2026 20:59<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260308-OHT1I51490-L.jpg\" width=\"1089\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"Kenya Wakatsuki after bad throw (photographer: Shohei Uemura)\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u60aa\u9001\u7403\u3057\u3066\u9854\u3092\u3057\u304b\u3081\u308b\u82e5\u6708\u5065\u77e2\uff08\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u30fb\u4e0a\u6751\u3000\u5c1a\u5e73\uff09\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">WBC First Round Group C Japan vs. Australia (8th, Tokyo Dome)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Samurai Japan allowed the first run due to a disappointing bad throw by Orix Buffaloes catcher Kenya Wakatsuki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">With the score at 0-0, it was the sixth inning and there was one out and a runner on second base. Whitefield attempted to steal third base, but Wakatsuki&#8217;s throw went wide towards the gap between third and shortstop, allowing Whitefield to score in one go. He skillfully led starter Sugano to a good pitch that day, and he also allowed one hit and one Walk. He had shown his presence, but this was a costly mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samurai Japan&#8217;s Kenya Wakatsuki makes a costly bad throw, allowing Australia to score the first run. Spo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2801668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785171],"tags":[133795,19294],"class_list":{"0":"post-2801667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-19294"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/116313831908404238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2801668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}