![]() ![]() The Brits got to Canadian hurler Cal Quantrill for three in the top of the first, but Hot Twins prospect Edouard Juilien dingered on the very first pitch Canada saw in the bottom half. Seven GB pitchers walked a total 16 hitters in just seven innings and Canada made them pay with a non-stop barrage of offense that sets the northerners up really well in Pool C. In perhaps the greatest argument for (1) the pitch clock and (2) throwing strikes, Canada mercy-ruled Great Britain 18-8 in the early game in Phoenix. This is still the most talented team in the tournament and it should still win the whole thing, but a loss to the Canadians would make advancing out of the group almost impossible and make this possibly the most disappointing international baseball performance of all time. ![]() approaches the tournament as a whole between the underwhelming, B-Team pitching rotation and the selection of DeRosa, who'd never managed before, as the skipper of the club, but there's no need to go full panic mode unless U.S. There's a longer conversation to be had about how the U.S. ![]() Things really opened up in the fourth inning after Randy Arozarena hit an RBI double followed by another home run by Joey Meneses. Joey Meneses got the party going for Mexico by slamming a two-run home run in the first inning. Mexico took on the USA in pool play of the 2023 World Baseball Classic. ![]()
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