{"id":616234,"date":"2026-03-10T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/616234\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:20:19","slug":"wbc-game-thread-usa-vs-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/616234\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC Game Thread: USA vs. Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s another day of World Baseball Classic pool play, as two of the top teams are set to face off in Team USA and Team Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mexico is 2-0 thus far, with an 8-2 win against Great Britain on Friday and a 16-0 blowout win over Brazil yesterday. The USA is also 2-0, with a 15-5 win over Brazil on Friday before a 9-1 win over Britain on Saturday. Both teams have yet to face Italy, as the USA will do so on Tuesday before Mexico faces them on Wednesday. All three of those squads are 2-0 with two games to play, but only two of the three will move on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brewers second baseman Brice Turang returns to the lineup in the nine-hole after a solid showing in Team USA\u2019s win over Brazil, in which he went 3-for-6 with a pair of doubles and four RBIs. It\u2019s another star-studded lineup for the USA, as they\u2019ll roll with the same lineup from that one. Paul Skenes is on the mound tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brewer shortstop Joey Ortiz will also bat ninth, though he\u2019ll be on the opposite side as he starts for Mexico. Fellow major leaguers in the lineup include Jarren Duran (in right), Randy Arozarena (in left), Jonathan Aranda, Alejandro Kirk, Rowdy Tellez (at DH), Nacho Alvarez Jr., Nick Gonzales, and Alek Thomas (in center). Manny Barreda, a 12th-round pick back in 2007 who made three appearances with the Orioles in 2021, starts on the bump for Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In other Pool B play, Great Britain took down Brazil by an 8-1 final, as Britain finishes pool play at 1-3 and Brazil finishes 0-4. Neither of those teams will move on. The aforementioned 2-0 Team Italy has the day off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are the full lineups for tonight\u2019s game. Team USA will be the home team, and Team Mexico will be the road team. First pitch is set for 7:00 p.m. CT on FOX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s another day of World Baseball Classic pool play, as two of the top teams are set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,72545,78933,4280,4,3537],"class_list":{"0":"post-616234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-discussions","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-game-information","14":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-mlb-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116203200459361944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616234","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=616234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}