{"id":603098,"date":"2026-03-03T06:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:42:22","slug":"san-francisco-giants-ace-logan-webb-will-start-wbc-opener-for-team-usa-against-brazil-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603098\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start WBC opener for Team USA against Brazil | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start on the mound for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aaron-judge-united-states-world-baseball-classic-14a6687f5e767d491ec76b8e4df53473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team USA<\/a> in its first World Baseball Classic game Friday night against Brazil, manager Mark DeRosa said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DeRosa added that two-time defending AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal is expected to start Saturday against Britain, followed by NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes versus Mexico on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>kAm}6H *@C&lt; |6ED C:89E\\92?56C }@=2? |4{62? \ud83d\ude00 E6?E2E:G6=J D4965F=65 E@ DE2CE @? %F6D52J \ud83d\ude15 E96 7:?2= A@@=\\A=2J 82&gt;6 282:?DE xE2=J[ 6G6? E9@F89 96VD 562=:?8 H:E9 2? :==?6DD 2?5 H2D?VE H:E9 E96 &amp;]$] E62&gt; 7@C |@?52JVD AC24E:46]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm\u201cxEVD D6E FA[\u201d s6#@D2 D2:5] \u201c%96C6 2C6 @3G:@FD=J 8F2C5C2:=D 7@C E96 E@FC?2&gt;6?E E@ 368:? H:E9[ A:E49\\4@F?E H:D6[ 3FE E96C6VD 2=D@ 8F2C5C2:=D 7@C 8FJD 92G:?8 E@ E9C@H @? 46CE2:? 52JD E@ 86E C625J 7@C E96:C E62&gt;VD @A6?:?8 52J]\u201dk^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 &amp;]$] H:== A=2J EH@ 6I9:3E:@? 82&gt;6D \ud83d\ude15 pC:K@?2 @? %F6D52J 2?5 (65?6D52J 367@C6 EC2G6=:?8 E@ w@FDE@? 7@C E96 (qr @A6?6C 282:?DE qC2K:=] $&lt;6?6D H:== DE2CE %F6D52JVD 82&gt;6 282:?DE E96 v:2?ED] s6#@D2 D2:5 |2EE96H q@J5[ v236 $A6:6C[ s2G:5 q65?2C[ vC:77:? y2I 2?5 |2D@? |:==6C H:== 2=D@ E2&lt;6 E96 &gt;@F?5]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm$2&lt;6 ;FDE @?6 DE2CE 7@C E96 &amp;]$] 367@C6 C6;@:?:?8 E96 s6EC@:E %:86CD 7@C E96 C6&gt;2:?56C @7 DAC:?8 EC2:?:?8]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmp! |{qi k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^|{qQm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^|{qk^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start on the mound for Team USA in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,3618,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-603098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-national_sports","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-giants","18":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116163886830345023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}