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Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, FINAL 2h ago RBI single! (Luis Urías, Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico) 2h ago 2-run single! (Isaac Paredes, Puerto Rico 4-4 Mexico) 3h ago RBI Single! (Alex Verdugo, Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico) 4h ago Home run! (Isaac Paredes, Puerto Rico 4-1 Mexico) 4h ago Home run! (Eddie Rosario, Puerto Rico 4-0 Mexico) 4h ago Two-Run Home Run (Javier Báez, Puerto Rico 3-0 Mexico)) 4h ago SACRIFICE FLY! (Emmanuel Rivera, Puerto Rico 1-0 Mexico) 4h ago First pitch Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 50m ago 22.34 EDT Final thoughts So that will about do it from The Guardian live WBC coverage tonight but we will be back Same (Baseball) Bat Time, (Baseball) Bat Channel tomorrow when
USA will face
Venezuela for the right to face Cuba in Sunday’s semifinals. As always, thanks for following along with us for Puerto Rico v Mexico. We can only hope to get as good of a game tomorrow. Ciao! 53m ago 22.30 EDT What a start for our WBC quarter-finals coverage! It looked like this was going to be a blowout on the side of Puerto Rico but instead Mexico managed to chip away and then take advantage of a bases-loaded situation late to take the lead. They will be facing
Japan in Monday’s semi-final game! Updated at 23.23 EDT 1h ago 22.26 EDT Mexico defeats Puerto Rico! Mexico has eliminated Puerto Rico to advance to Monday’s WBC semifinal round for the first time! 1h ago 22.25 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, FINAL Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, FINAL Hernández is now Puerto Rico’s last hope. Gallegos’s first pitch is outside. 1-0. The second pitch is in the dirt. 2-0. The next ball is hit foul. 2-1. It was this close to hitting fair and ending up being a game-ending ground-ball. The 2-1 pitch is called for a strike and replay shows it is, but just barely. 2-2. Puerto Rico down to its final strike. 2-2. That’s also hit foul. The next pitch? Right down the middle! That’s the game! Mexico wins! 1h ago 22.21 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 9th inning Lindor, representing Puerto Rico’s last chance, pops one out but out of play. 0-1, but he’s still alive. The next pitch is a ball. 1-1. Lindor takes another pitch outside. 2-1. Hitter’s count. Dangerous pitch here for Gallegos. He throws a changeup that Lindor misses. 2-2. Puerto Rico is down to its final out. Lindor hits a base hit! Runners on first and second. Still two out! 1h ago 22.18 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 9th inning Maldonado pops one up to first. Puerto Rico is down to their final out. 1h ago 22.17 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 9th inning Machín bunts, but right back to the pitcher for the first out. Not the wisest move there. One down. 1h ago 22.16 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 9th inning Giovanny Gallegos is out to close things out for Mexico . Vázquez, representing one of Puerto Rico’s final hopes. takes ball one. 1-0. Vázquez can’t hit the next offering. 1-1. Vázquez makes perfect contact with the next pitch, hitting a solid single. He will represent the potential game-tying run. Still three outs to go for Gallegos. 1h ago 22.11 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, bottom 8th inning Arozarena grounds out and now Mexico has its final three outs to play with? Can they rally or will Mexico advance to the semifinals? 1h ago 22.10 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, bottom 8th inning Barnes is at the plate next and he falls behind 0-2. He skies one to centerfield for the second out. 1h ago 22.08 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, bottom 8th inning Jovani “Get A Brain” Morán is up for Puerto Rico, his goal is to keep this a one-run game and give them a chance to tie things up in the top of the ninth. Alek Thomas takes a healthy cut and fouls the next pitch off. The next pitch is just outside. 1-1. As is the next. 2-1. Thomas fouls the next off. 2-2 and then strikes out swinging. One down. 1h ago 22.04 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 8th inning Rosario swings and misses at the first pitch. 0-1. He fouls off the next one. 0-2. Sanchez has a chance to get out of it here, I imagine he will waste one here, see if he can get Rosario to chase. Instead, Rosario pops one up and Barnes falls in his successful attempt to field it for the final out. Mexico is three outs away of reaching the WBC semifinals! 1h ago 22.02 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 8th inning Báez is up next trying to salvage the inning with Melendez still on first. There are two out. Báez gets ahead of the count 2-1 and then drills a pitch into the outfielders. Runners on the corners for Puerto Rico thanks to Melendez’s speed on the basepaths. 1h ago 22.00 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 8th inning Rivera takes ball one. 1-0. He fouls off the next pitch. 1-1. The next pitch is a called strike. 1-2. He fouls off another. 1-2 again. The next two pitches are balls outside. Full count. Rivera hits one that’s incredibly long and for a split second it looks like it’s going to at least tie the game. At centerfield, Arozarena makes an incredible game-saving catch for the second out! 1h ago 21.54 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 8th inning That it’s for Romero, he’s being replaced by Jake Sanchez who will be pitching to Rivera with a runner on first base with two outs in the inning. 2h ago 21.51 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 8th inning MJ Melendez is up next. He takes two straight balls. 2-0. Then a strike. 2-1. Then he takes two more balls. Puerto Rico with a one-out baserunner. 2h ago 21.49 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, top 8th inning (Random thoughts during this commercial break: I cannot believe “The Masked Singer” has lasted this long. The 21st century is weird.) Hernández is leading off for Puerto Rico against JoJo Romero, who gets ahead of him 1-2. He then pops up for the first out. Puerto Rico now has five outs left to play with. 2h ago 21.47 EDT Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, bottom 7th inning Trejo is up now, runners are on the corners still with one out. He gets good wood on the ball but it’s a flyout that finally ends the inning but not until after Mexico converts a bases-loaded situation into a three-run inning that gives them a late lead. Puerto Rico now has just six outs to keep their WBC hopes alive. 2h ago 21.45 EDT RBI single! (Luis Urías, Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico) Puerto Rico 4-5 Mexico, bottom 7th inning Paredes is looking like the game MVP if Mexico can pull off this comeback. Urías is at the plate with two out and runners on the corner. He takes a ball and a strike. And on the next pitch, Urías hits one into the outfield! Mexico takes a lead! 2h ago 21.43 EDT 2-run single! (Isaac Paredes, Puerto Rico 4-4 Mexico) Puerto Rico 4-4 Mexico, bottom 7th inning Paredes takes a ball outside. 1-0. It would be highly amusing if he managed to walk in a run after getting the first two outs. Well, I guess, not amusing for the entire country of Puerto Rico. The next pitch is outside. 2-0. The next one? A 97 mph strike on the corner. A quality pitch. 2-1. Oh no, on the next pitch, Paredes hits a two-run single! Tied game! 2h ago 21.40 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, bottom 7th inning There’s a meeting on the mound to make sure López is alright after throwing the pitch and getting off the mound. Hard to see what the team’s concerned with, but he’s staying in the game. Tellez is up next. Bases loaded, one out. He takes a ball outside, which was probably right on the corner. He’ll take it. 1-0. López gets the call on the next pitch, was probably outside. I guess it evens out. 1-1. Tellez fouls off the next pitch. 1-2. He probably wants that swing back. The next pitch is way upstairs. 2-2. Another mound meeting for what could be a key pitch. (Honestly every pitch is important at this point.) On 2-2, Tellez swings and misses at a pitch that breaks outside! Puerto Rico can get out of this bases-loaded jam with just one more out! 2h ago 21.35 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, bottom 7th inning Jorge López has an impossible task in front of him, trying to escape from a bases-loaded, nobody-out jam. Have to think Puerto Rico would settle for a run-scoring double-play here. Meneses is the batter. He takes a 97m heater for a strike. 0-1. Meneses swings again; fouls the pitch off. 0-2. He pops it up on the infield! No one can score. What a huge first out! 2h ago 21.30 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, bottom 7th inning Verdugo is up in another big spot. He takes a ball outside. 1-0. And another. 2-0. Díaz is having trouble with the strike zone here. 3-0. Remember what I was saying about Puerto Rico possibly regretting the scoring drought? Well, Díaz has walked the bases loaded without retiring a batter and is being lifted. 2h ago 21.28 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, bottom 7th inning Arozarena, Mexico’s most dangerous hitter, is up with a runner on second base. Díaz’s first pitch against him? Out of the zone. 1-0. The second pitch, strike. 1-1. Díaz throws another ball. 2-1. Arozarena takes a hefty swing at the next pitch. Luckily for Puerto Rico, he comes up with nothing but air. 2-2. Even count. The next pitch is off the outside corner. 3-2. Payoff pitch time. It’s outside. Runners on first and second now with nobody out. Possible big inning here? 2h ago 21.24 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, bottom 7th inning Alexis Díaz, Edwin’s brother, is in the game and Austin Barnes rudely greets him with a leadoff double. 2h ago 21.22 EDT Seventh inning stretch En Español. 2h ago 21.21 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, top 7th inning (Briefly checks the Men’s NCAA
basketball Tournament.) Purdue has been eliminated? Well, there goes my Final Four predictions . Hopefully that means some people have switched over to what is a really solid
baseball game here. Jojo Romero is up to face Lindor with two out. Lindor gets ahead of the count 2-0. Romero manages to get a strike over the plate on pitch three. 2-1. The next, not so much. 3-1. Lindor hits a ball just fair and it looks like he’s going to outrun it but Paredes makes a fantastic throw to get him out at first. To the seventh inning! 2h ago 21.16 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, top 7th inning Lindor is up next and Mexico goes to the bullpen. 2h ago 21.15 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, top 7th inning Maldonado promptly grounds out. Two away. 2h ago 21.15 EDT Puerto Rico 4-2 Mexico, top 7th inning Assad remains out there for the top of the seventh. Vimeal Machín is pinch-hitting for Soto. He falls behind 1-2 and then takes called strike three for the first out of the inning. Newest Newest Previous 1 of 3 Next Oldest Oldest Topics World Baseball Classic Puerto Rico Mexico Baseball US sports Americas Reuse this content