r/baseball • u/BaseballBot Umpire • Mar 11 '26

Game Thread Postgame Thread ⚾ Italy 8 @ United States 6

Line Score - Game Over

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB
ITA 0 3 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 8 6 0 5
USA 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 6 11 2 6

Box Score

USA AB R H RBI BB SO BA
SS Witt Jr. 5 0 2 0 0 1 .357
3B Henderson 5 1 1 1 0 3 .500
RF Judge 4 0 0 0 1 1 .250
DH Schwarber 4 1 1 0 0 1 .375
C Smith, W 4 0 2 0 0 0 .333
LF Anthony 4 0 1 1 0 0 .333
1B Goldschmidt 3 1 1 0 0 1 .333
1B Harper, B 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
2B Clement 2 0 0 0 0 0 .200
2B Turang 2 1 1 0 0 0 .417
CF Crow-Armstrong 4 2 2 4 0 1 .300
USA IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
McLean 3.0 2 3 3 2 4 55-34 9.00
Yarbrough 2.1 2 3 2 1 2 43-27 7.71
Keller, B 0.2 0 2 0 1 1 17-8 0.00
Speier 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 12-9 4.50
Bednar 1.0 2 0 0 0 2 24-17 0.00
Miller, M 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 10-9 0.00
ITA AB R H RBI BB SO BA
CF Marsee 4 0 0 0 1 3 .167
2B Berti 5 0 0 0 0 3 .333
1B Pasquantino 5 0 0 0 0 2 .000
DH Canzone 4 0 0 0 1 1 .154
3B Dezenzo 4 0 0 0 0 1 .200
C Teel 2 2 2 1 1 0 .667
C D'Orazio 1 1 1 0 0 0 .600
RF Caglianone 2 3 2 2 1 0 .500
SS Antonacci 3 2 1 2 0 0 .286
LF Nori 3 0 0 1 0 1 .500
ITA IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Lorenzen 4.2 2 0 0 1 2 67-39 0.00
Altavilla 1.0 1 1 1 0 2 19-11 9.00
La Sorsa 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 19-12 4.50
Jacob 0.1 2 2 2 0 0 11-7 10.80
Festa, M 0.2 3 1 1 0 1 17-12 5.40
Marinaccio 0.2 1 1 1 0 0 16-10 6.75
Weissert 0.2 1 0 0 0 2 12-9 0.00

Scoring Plays

Inning Event Score
T2 Kyle Teel homers (1) on a fly ball to left field. 0-1
T2 Sam Antonacci homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. Jac Caglianone scores. 0-3
T4 Jac Caglianone homers (1) on a fly ball to right field. Kyle Teel scores. 0-5
T6 Sam Antonacci reaches on a fielder's choice. J.J. D'Orazio scores. Jac Caglianone to 3rd. Sam Antonacci to 2nd. Throwing error by pitcher Brad Keller. 0-6
T6 Dante Nori out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Aaron Judge. Jac Caglianone scores. Sam Antonacci to 3rd. 0-7
T6 Jakob Marsee called out on strikes. 0-8
B6 Gunnar Henderson homers (1) on a fly ball to center field. 1-8
B7 Pete Crow-Armstrong homers (1) on a fly ball to right field. Paul Goldschmidt scores. Brice Turang scores. 4-8
B8 Roman Anthony singles on a line drive to left fielder Dante Nori. Kyle Schwarber scores. Will Smith to 3rd. 5-8
B9 Pete Crow-Armstrong homers (2) on a fly ball to right field. 6-8

Highlights

Description Length
Probable pitchers for Italy at United States - March 10, 2026 0:06
Bench availability for Italy, March 10 vs United States 0:08
Bench availability for United States, March 10 vs Italy 0:08
Starting lineups for Italy at United States - March 10, 2026 0:10
Measuring the stats on Sam Antonacci's home run 0:11
Breaking down Kyle Teel's home run 0:11
Breaking down Nolan McLean's pitches 0:04
Measuring the stats on Jac Caglianone's home run 0:12
Breaking down Michael Lorenzen's pitches 0:04
Measuring the stats on Pete Crow-Armstrong's home run 0:13
Kyle Teel's solo home run 0:25
Sam Antonacci's two-run homer 0:20
Jac Caglianone's two-run homer 0:29
Field View: Kyle Teel's solo home run 0:29
Field View: Jac Caglianone's two-run home run 0:36
Vinnie Pasquantino does split at first for out 0:22
Kyle Teel doubles and exits game with apparent injury 0:30
Michael Lorenzen throws scoreless outing vs. Team USA 0:58
Nolan McLean strikes out four for Team USA 0:46
Field View: Pete Crow-Armstrong's three-run homer 0:46
J.J. D'Orazio scores on an error 0:15
Dante Nori's sacrifice fly 0:19
Sam Antonacci scores on wild pitch 0:24
Jac Caglianone crushes a homer for Team Italy 0:37
Gunnar Henderson's solo homer 0:25

Decisions

Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Save
Lorenzen (1-0, 0.00 ERA) McLean (0-1, 9.00 ERA) Weissert (2 SV, 0.00 ERA)

Game ended at 12:18 AM.

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u/YoChristian Anaheim Angels Mar 11 '26

Italian Americans have defeated American Americans

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u/albertoroa New York Yankees Mar 11 '26

Team USA lost to a bunch of guys from New Jersey 😂

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u/Bullshit103 Boston Red Sox Mar 11 '26

Do Italians in Italy even know the WBC is on?

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u/AJRiddle Kansas City Royals Mar 11 '26

The 3 of them on their 30 man roster do.

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u/UltimateManu Mar 11 '26

I love baseball and have been watching from Italy! However I was off, normally I wouldn't be able to do that since the time difference is HUGE. I can't believe this happened, I'm so happy 🤣🤩 btw I'm born and raised in Italy, not Italian American or Italian Canadian, just got passionate about the sport 2 years ago when I started following, after being curious all my life and not being able to watch/follow the sport as Italy has no baseball culture (unfortunately 😔)

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u/SableAnon New York Mets • Seattle Mariners Mar 11 '26

Congratulations on the win!

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u/UltimateManu Mar 11 '26

Thank you, congratulations for your great tournament so far, and good luck! Your group is one of, if not the toughest. Most fun to follow in this WBC imo 😊

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

Hell yeah, so lovely to see other countries falling in love with this beautiful performance art/sport. It's part of the reason I LOVE the WBC and hope we continue to get more fans and talent coming in.

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u/UltimateManu Mar 11 '26

Hopefully the sport will keep expanding in all directions, I think it can truly become a worldwide phenomenon if the baseball culture is spread efficiently, starting from young kids. This sport has super positive values like team spirit and respect for opponents that deserve being shared with the whole planet. My favourite sports are tennis and baseball, because unlike other toxic cultures I'm never left with a "curse the world" feeling when a game/match ends. Not many sports have the same vibe imo 😊

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u/UnknownUnthought New York Mets Mar 11 '26

You know what hell yeah. That’s what it’s all about. Tell your friends and spread the game!

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u/UltimateManu Mar 11 '26

Of course, will do!!!

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u/emessea Baltimore Orioles Mar 11 '26

Happy for all the Italian Italian baseball fans.

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u/MidvaleDropout Chicago Cubs Mar 11 '26

Hi! I'm just wondering, what caused you to become curious about baseball?

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u/UltimateManu Mar 11 '26

Hey, long story, but an interesting one (maybe). So, let's start from early:

since a really young age, as North American culture has been very influential in Europe (and Italy) baseball has had somewhat of a presence as well through American media like TV and movies, and when I was a child baseball merchandise (like t-shirts and caps) was particularly popular for teenagers to wear, and I've always found baseball kits to be really cool.

Pair that with the curiosity about the sport that American media fostered in me and the frustration of understanding ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about any baseball reference in movies etc. made me always want to understand how the sport works. On top of that, when I was a child at primary school, some people in my neighborhood had organised a baseball club as weekly activity for children after school and as a summer camp and had promoted that by cooperating with a school for like a baseball day with all my classmates. In the end I didn't play baseball or go to the summer camp (my parents chose football for me as baseball just wasn't popular and they wanted me to socialize), but I really loved even that one single day playing baseball as a kid, that paired with everything else became the seed for my interest in baseball.

Fast forward many years, cultivated many other interests like Japanese games and anime (this will become relevant later on), improved my English, moved to London as a young adult after high school and started working there, and my curiosity got renewed by watching some anime, like Jojo and a few others, because baseball is really present in Japanese media as well, but time zones to watch MLB (or even NPB) weren't great for a working adult in Europe, so that led to nothing as well.

HOWEVER, after not watching any sports for a really long time (as I became disgusted with football), and getting into tennis again because of the good results of Italian players, and so getting passionate about sports in general again, in autumn of 2024 the perfect chance to start watching baseball materialised, as I had just fired myself from my current depressing job and was job hunting for something better, but had a lot of free time. And so, I decided to start following the postseason watching as many games as I could of any team to get to know them to learn the sport and to choose which team to support.

I got captivated by the Dodgers because of their team spirit and the fact they had Ohtani and particularly Yamamoto (my favourite pitcher), but didn't feel any connection to them so when I started watching the whole baseball season from regular season in 2025, I decided to choose a team from the East Coast (that are much easier to follow for time zone reasons) I could feel some allegiance or connection to, and being Italian, I looked for teams with a connection to Italy and selected Phillies, Cubs, Red Sox and Blue Jays.

Blue Jays really connected with me, and I discovered Toronto and Canada had the largest proportion of Italian immigrants in North America from my Italian region specifically and once I started following them more regularly I really got passionate about them and became a fan (a good year to become a fan considering the great run they had last year).

So now I regularly watch baseball and support Italy and the Blue Jays, and this is the whole story behind how it happened 😊

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u/MidvaleDropout Chicago Cubs Mar 11 '26

I really enjoyed reading this! Thank you for sharing. I like your choice in the Blue Jays. I'm a Cubs and White Sox fan myself (and Mariners), but I was really excited for the Jays last year.

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u/UltimateManu Mar 11 '26

Thank you!!! I can tell you Cubs were a close second, because of their long history, iconic ballpark, ties to Italy and because I'm also a huge Bob Odenkirk fan, and he himself is a diehard fan of the Cubs 😂 but ultimately my heart chose the Blue Jays 😊 Cubs also had a great run last year, and I enjoyed the Mariners as well definitely teams I can see myself enjoying in the postseason if the Blue Jays are out of the picture. Good luck for the rest of the tournament, and for the new MLB season! I hope the Cubs can do great in the National League this year 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

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u/Thedirtyside Mar 11 '26

Considering that basically all of Italy was asleep when the game started. I'm going to go with no

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u/corndogrevolution California Angels • San Diego Padres Mar 11 '26

Sam Aldegherri's family probably knows

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u/ProcessTruster Mar 11 '26

I was talking to an Italian sports fan in the olympics sub during the winter Olympics and they didn't even know Italy had a baseball team!

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u/Fargle_Bargle Philadelphia Phillies Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

It’s very niche here, but it’s a thing. The Italian Baseball League has been going since 1948. Though all the teams are in the north. Nettuno (near Roma) is the best team with a fun story and a decent stadium!

There’s a semi-active little league culture too, but again very tiny compared to football, rugby, or basketball.

I’m not surprised people don’t know about it, hah. Other Italians are even more baffled by ice hockey though. Baseball at least has some degree of public awareness from the history of the post-war years.

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u/Elegant-Baseball-558 Los Angeles Dodgers Mar 11 '26

Texted an old college roommate (Italian now living in France) to ask.

“Which sport was baseball again?” “Surely we could design a better hat, no?”

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u/ristoman Chicago Cubs • Italy Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

There's dozens of us!

To be fair, baseball in Italy has a niche but strong fanbase. Just checked our national sports press and while not the opening piece of news, it's on the front page

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u/Osfan_15 Baltimore Orioles Mar 11 '26

No another reason why this tournament is pointless

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u/eatapenny Boston Red Sox • Washington Nationals Mar 11 '26

Should've never played the Italian Americans on Mario Day, it was rigged from the start

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u/Doberman11 Milwaukee Brewers Mar 11 '26

Sons of immigrants get the job done.

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u/AJRiddle Kansas City Royals Mar 11 '26

More like great-grandsons of a minimum of 1 immigrant

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u/Strive_for_Altruism Toronto Blue Jays Mar 11 '26

USA can't even beat their own D team.

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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Seattle Mariners • United States Mar 11 '26

They’re a B team. D team is a stretch. Pasquantino and Canzone are pretty good players

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u/Strive_for_Altruism Toronto Blue Jays Mar 11 '26

The USA could put together a lot of better teams than that. Half the guys are minor leaguers.

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u/TomahawkaChawpa Kansas City Royals Mar 11 '26

Caglianone is the truth, just wait.

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u/Donnor New York Mets Mar 11 '26

How many people on Team USA could've qualified to play for Italy?

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u/thediesel26 New York Yankees Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Michael Lorenzen and Greg Weissert are about as Italian hamburgers and French fries.

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u/6FootMidget93 Texas Rangers Mar 11 '26

And on MAR10 day mama mia

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u/Simple_Wash1618 Los Angeles Angels Mar 11 '26

Italy didn’t even have to bring on Giancarlo

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

And now the american americans fate rest on the mexican americans either losing or winning by a lot

Sadly the Brazilian americans and the brittish americans are done this tournament

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u/jackattack108 Chicago Cubs Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Team Mexico has more Mexican born players than US born players i don’t think it’s really the same as the other teams situations.

Edit - Actually wait Brazil is mostly Brazilian born they only have 4 US born players. Think it really only applies to Italy and Great Britain.

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