Mexico advanced to the quarter-finals with a record three wins and just one loss (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

There Mexican baseball team stamped his ticket at quarter-finals of the World Baseball Classic (UK) after hitting the team canadian. During Benjamín Gil’s last ninth pool game, the Maple Leaf team jeopardized the tricolor advantage. However, the appearance of Randy Arozarena It was crucial to get the third victory.

With a score of 10 runs against 3, Mexico provided the trip to Miami play the final phase of the tournament. Despite the comfortable advantage, the tricolor could have lost the reins of the match in the first half. And it is that the ninth Canadian threatened to bind in the fourth inning with a run that made them three to two.

The team led by Ernie Whitt were strengthened as the Mexican lead was only a single point. The duel of pitchers intensified in the fifth roll and neither team dared to score. However, the next chapter, the Mexicans were able to place three players on the base and Randy Arozarena drove in three-pointers to the plate with a shot to left field.

Randy Arozarena set a new record in Mexico history in the World Classic (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)
Randy Arozarena set a new record in Mexico history in the World Classic (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

Along with the production, the Tampa Bay Rays player added nine RBI in the 2023 edition of the World Baseball Classic and set a new record On the pitch Before him, the top belonged to Jorge Cantú, who managed to drive up to eight points when he was part of the formation of the national representative team in the 2006 edition.

The seven-to-two advantage remained in effect until in the seventh inning two more players from Gil’s team took over. In the bottom half, the Canadians scored once more on a home run, but it wasn’t enough. There final sentence arrived for the eighth episode, when the the slate was 10 to 3.

Jose Urquidystarting pitcher got the win for his four-inning work where he allowed a few runs. Behind him, five pitchers pitched in to help hold the lead and get Canada’s first baseman, Rob Zastryznywill wear the defeat.

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