MIAMI -- At the bottom of the billion-dollar lineup that sent Team USA to the finals of the World Baseball Classic with a 14-2 thumping of Cuba on …
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World Baseball Classic: Team USA Returns to Championship Game
Trea Turner is arguably the game’s best baserunner, but his power has lifted Team USA to the cusp of the WBC title. The Dodgers shortstop pounded two homers in the United States’ 14-2 semifinal win over Cuba. Chants of “Libertad!” rang through LoanDepot Stadium in Miami, the Cubans’ first visit there since the Fidel Castro era. “There's a lot of anxious feelings," said U.S. third baseman Nolan Arenado, the son of Cuban immigrants. Read about the game, one Cuban player’s defection, and more.
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Live updates United States 14, Cuba 2 - Final It's a blowout for the Americans, who scored in each of the first six innings. Trea Turner homered twice …
MIAMI — Team USA’s lineup is hitting its stride, which should terrify its next opponent just 48 hours away from the World Baseball Classic final. USA …
MIAMI — It was hardly easy. There were rough moments. Plenty of frustrating and anxious times. But here is Team USA, back in the World Baseball Classic finals, just where they thought they’d wind up all along. Team USA laughed their way to a 14-2 victory over Cuba on Sunday night, and then turned the …
MIAMI (AP) — Nolan Arenado left Team USA’s 14-2 win over Cuba in the World Baseball Classic semifinals Sunday in the fifth inning after he was hit on the hand by a pitch. X-rays on Arenado’s hand came back negative, but it comes one night after Jose Altuve left a quarterfinal between the U.S. and …
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