Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer and Brice Turang had three hits and four RBIs to lead the United States to a 15-5 win over Brazil in its World Baseball Classic opener Friday night.<\/p>\n
There was one out and one on in the first when Judge, the first player to commit to the team last April, connected off Bo Takahashi at Houston\u2019s Daikin Park.<\/p>\n
Lucas Ramirez \u2014 with his father, 12-time All-Star Manny Ramirez, in attendance \u2014 homered twice for Brazil. He cut the lead to 2-1 with his leadoff homer, and his solo shot in the eighth got Brazil within 8-5.<\/p>\n
At 20 years, 49 days, he became the youngest player in WBC history with a multi-homer game.<\/p>\n
Byron Buxton was hit by a pitch in the fifth to push the Americans\u2019 lead to 4-1. Turang cleared the bases with his double to left field two pitches later to make it 7-1.<\/p>\n
Brazil is in the WBC for just the second time and first since 2013. The team fell to 0-4 all time in the tournament after losing to Japan, Cuba and China in 2013.<\/p>\n
Another highlight for Brazil came when 17-year-old high school senior Joseph Contreras got Judge to ground into a bases-loaded double play to end the second inning. Contreras, the youngest player in the WBC this year, is the son of pitcher Jos\u00e9 Contreras, who played 11 MLB seasons.<\/p>\n
Lucas Rojo hit an RBI single for Brazil in the seventh before a two-run shot by Victor Mascai off Michael Wacha cut the lead to 7-4.<\/p>\n
Bryce Harper\u2019s RBI single got things going in the ninth as the U.S. tacked on seven more runs.<\/p>\n
The Americans walked 17 times and forced Brazil to throw 221 pitches.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Brazil faces Italy on Saturday and the U.S. plays Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer and Brice Turang had three hits and four RBIs to lead the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[106,5,18957,3800,4816,39,1165,4332,4333,4949,774,57,3224,4331,4,7879,6476,670,15942,17266,3653,79293,79294,1319,37387],"class_list":["post-611148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-aaron-judge","tag-baseball","tag-brazil","tag-brice-turang","tag-daikin-park","tag-dodgers","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-lead","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mlb","tag-pitch","tag-rbi","tag-saturday","tag-two-run-homer","tag-u-s","tag-victory","tag-wbc-history","tag-wbc-opener","tag-year","tag-young-player"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116186229415618552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611148","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=611148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}