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The World Baseball Classic championship game featuring Team USA will go down on March 17 against the winner of Venezuela and Italy.
For a moment Tuesday night, it appeared Bryce Harper might enter the pantheon of American sports heroes on an international stage. With the United States trailing Venezuela 2-0 in the bottom of the eighth inning of the World Baseball Classic championship game in Miami,
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Aaron Judge walked slowly back and forth in the United States’ dugout on Tuesday night while Venezuelan players shed tears and fell to their knees to celebrate the country’s first World Baseball Classic title.
Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday after defeating the United States 3-2 in the championship.
Fox Sports couldn’t have drawn up the World Baseball Classic bracket more perfectly. In one semifinal, the clear “Cinderella” of the tournament (Italy) played an All-Star laden Venezuela team. In the other,