Trea Turner homered twice to give him a tournament-leading four, and the defending champion United States romped over Cuba 14-2 to reach its second straight World Baseball Classic final. Paul Goldschmidt and Cedric Mullins also homered for the Americans, who scored in seven of eight innings — putting up crooked numbers in five of them. Turner and Goldschmidt had four RBIs each. The U.S. plays Japan or Mexico in Tuesday night's championship, trying to join the Samurai Warriors as the only nations to win the title twice. Turner, hitting No. 9 in the batting order, has a tournament-leading 10 RBIs.
After an injury plagued end of the season, MVP OF Bryce Harper returned to the lineup and led the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series. Although Philadelphia came up just short against the Houston Astros, the team has reloaded and are ready to take another shot in 2023.
Team USA laughed their way to a 14-2 victory over Cuba on Sunday night, and then turned the postgame into a comedy club routine. On Tuesday night, they will play the winner of the Japan-Mexico game at loanDepot Park where they will once again have the home-field advantage, and feeling like they are the '27 Yankees the way they are playing these days. When you're swinging the bats like Team USA these days, hitting .382 with 23 runs, five doubles, one triple and six homers the past two games, why shouldn't they feel invincible? Starter Adam Wainwright can certainly attest, permitting the first four Cuban baserunners to reach base without getting an out in the first inning, down 1-0 before he knew it, and have his St. Louis Cardinals teammate Paul Goldschmidt step up and hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning.
No | Player | Pos |
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46 | P | |
64 | P | |
75 | P | |
58 | P | |
47 | RP | |
70 | P | |
31 | P | |
43 | P | |
57 | P | |
27 | P | |
56 | P | |
49 | P | |
30 | P | |
25 | P | |
55 | P | |
61 | P | |
47 | P | |
37 | P | |
99 | P | |
45 | P |
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
10 | C | |
21 | C |
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
28 | 3B | |
23 | 1B | |
18 | 3B | |
24 | 1B | |
2 | 2B | |
17 | 1B | |
33 | SS | |
5 | 2B | |
7 | SS |
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
8 | RF | |
44 | LF | |
3 | RF | |
16 | CF | |
12 | LF |