{"id":613289,"date":"2026-03-08T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613289\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:04:16","slug":"kyle-schwarber-hits-two-run-homer-in-world-baseball-classic-united-states-beats-britain-9-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613289\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Schwarber hits two-run homer in World Baseball Classic, United States beats Britain 9-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/kyle-schwarber-phillies-contract-free-agency-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Kyle Schwarber<\/a> hit a two-run homer and Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson had four hits and two RBIs as the United States rolled to a 9-1 victory over Britain Saturday night at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-ohtani-world-baseball-classic-06a55f56c1905d61f53b7f970bbf25ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Baseball Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA improved to 2-0 in Pool B at Houston, while Britain dropped to 0-2.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Eaton homered on Tarik Skubal&#8217;s first pitch to give Britain a quick lead it held until the fifth inning. But his teammates couldn&#8217;t muster anything else at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. hitters had managed just one single when Ernie Clement reached on an error by third baseman Ivan Johnson to start the fifth. Pete Crow-Armstrong doubled before Clement scored on a wild pitch by Andre Scrubb to tie it at 1.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber, who signed a five-year, $150 million contract with the Phillies in December, followed with a 427-foot drive that landed near the back of the second deck in right field to put the United States on top 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ap26067106436950.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"WBC Britain United States Baseball \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  United States designated hitter Kyle Schwarber, right, celebrates with Aaron Judge after hitting a home run during the fifth inning of a World Baseball Classic game against Britain, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>                Ashley Landis \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>There were two outs in the inning when Henderson&#8217;s two-run single made it 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Judge, who homered in Friday night&#8217;s win over Brazil, knocked out a panel in the metal scoreboard with a 109.6 mph RBI single in a three-run sixth that pushed it to 8-1.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal allowed two hits with five strikeouts in three innings. It&#8217;s scheduled to be the only start of the tournament for the two-time defending AL Cy Young Award winner, who will return to spring training with the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Britain plays Italy on Sunday. The Americans are off until reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes pitches Monday night against Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Kyle Schwarber hit a two-run homer and Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson had four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,81,19,4,144,25,4216,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-613289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kyle-schwarber","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","14":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","15":"tag-phillies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116193701300960666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613289","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=613289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}