{"id":332561,"date":"2025-08-10T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332561\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:24:14","slug":"japan-usa-win-gold-medals-canada-venezuela-get-bronze-at-the-world-games-as-medal-games-are-rained-out-world-baseball-softball-confederation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332561\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, USA win gold medals; Canada, Venezuela get bronze at The World Games as medal games are rained out &#8211; World Baseball Softball Confederation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, who finished fourth at the WBSC Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup Finals 2025 and are looking for their first major international title in men&#8217;s softball, and USA, whose last appearance in a global final was 37 years ago when they beat New Zealand in the WBSC Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup 1988, will meet in the Men\u2019s Softball Gold Medal Game on Sunday, 10 August, at 13:00 local time. Both teams head into the final undefeated, having swept their groups and won their semifinals convincingly.<\/p>\n<p>Japan and USA has claimed the gold medal at The World Games Men&#8217;s Softball competition as the medal games had to be cancelled due to rain. Canada and Venezuela earned the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>    Up Next The World Games 2025 | Men&#8217;s Softball<\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Visitor<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/VEN.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">VEN<\/p>\n<p>                    11<br \/>\n                 :  1\n                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Home<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/CZE.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">CZE<\/p>\n<p class=\"game-time\">\n                    <br \/>08\/08\/2025 10:00 (UTC +8)  &#8211; Final                                      <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Visitor<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/SGP.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">SGP<\/p>\n<p>                    8<br \/>\n                 :  9\n                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Home<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/CAN.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">CAN<\/p>\n<p class=\"game-time\">\n                    <br \/>08\/08\/2025 10:00 (UTC +8)  &#8211; 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Final                                      <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Visitor<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/VEN.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">VEN<\/p>\n<p>                    0<br \/>\n                 :  7\n                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Home<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/USA.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">USA<\/p>\n<p class=\"game-time\">\n                    <br \/>09\/08\/2025 12:30 (UTC +8)  &#8211; Final                                      <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Visitor<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/CAN.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">CAN<\/p>\n<p>                    1<br \/>\n                 :  6\n                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Home<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/JPN.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">JPN<\/p>\n<p class=\"game-time\">\n                    <br \/>09\/08\/2025 12:30 (UTC +8)  &#8211; Final                                      <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Visitor<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/SGP.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">SGP<\/p>\n<p>                    5<br \/>\n                 :  12\n                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Home<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/AUS.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">AUS<\/p>\n<p class=\"game-time\">\n                    <br \/>09\/08\/2025 15:00 (UTC +8)  &#8211; Final                                      <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Visitor<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/CZE.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">CZE<\/p>\n<p>                    0<br \/>\n                 :  3\n                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"home-away-label\">Home<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flag-icon lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wbsc.org\/assets\/flags\/ioc\/ARG.svg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"team-name\">ARG<\/p>\n<p class=\"game-time\">\n                    <br \/>09\/08\/2025 15:00 (UTC +8)  &#8211; 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Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rain has been relentless in Chengdu during the early hours of the day, forcing the cancellation of the two medal games scheduled on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-ve30-twitter-iframe twitter-tweet\" allowtransparency=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"auto\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/WBSC\/status\/1954135320720515186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Key News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan, who finished fourth at the WBSC Men&#8217;s Softball World Cup Finals 2025 and are looking for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-332561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115003278867379431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}