{"id":80928,"date":"2024-06-05T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=80928"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T02:05:15","slug":"waseda-university-baseball-club-wins-spring-league-championship-for-record-47th-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/80928","title":{"rendered":"Waseda Baseball Club Wins Record 47th League Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_80930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80930 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209138-1536x1179-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209138-1536x1179-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209138-1536x1179-1-610x468.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209138-1536x1179-1-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The winning team gathering at the mound (Photo courtesy of Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Overwhelming Keio from the start with their batting lineup, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasedabbc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waseda University Baseball Club<\/a> secured their 47th Tokyo Big 6 League Championship, setting the record for the most championships in the league.<\/p>\n<p>In the Tokyo Big 6 Spring League Championship, Waseda University triumphed over Keio University in a best-of-3 on June 2nd at Meiji Jingu Stadium. For the first time in 7 seasons, since 2020, Waseda secured the winning league point in the Spring League Championship by beating Keio 12-2. Waseda defeated all 5 other universities in the league, obtaining the maximum 5 points in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Following their victory, the team took part in a parade that proceeded from the Meiji Jingu Stadium to the Waseda Campus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80929 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209553-1536x1030-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209553-1536x1030-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209553-1536x1030-1-610x409.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024060209553-1536x1030-1-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Satoru Komiyama being lifted in celebration (Photo courtesy of Kyodo News)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwhelming Keio from the start with their batting lineup, the Waseda University Baseball Club secured their  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[263,174,175],"class_list":["post-80928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-campus_scenes-en","tag-sports-en","tag-students-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80966,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80928\/revisions\/80966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}