{"id":151061,"date":"2026-03-08T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuevaonda.com\/u-s-crushes-great-britain-to-lead-world-classic-group-b\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:30:40","slug":"usa-crushes-great-britain-world-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuevaonda.com\/en\/usa-crushes-great-britain-world-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"USA crushes Great Britain to lead World Classic Group B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stars and stripes machine shows no mercy. In an exhibition of power at Daikin Park, the USA team beat Great Britain 9-1, consolidating its place at the top of Group B of the World Baseball Classic with a perfect 2-0 record.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico and Italy follow with one win each; Great Britain and Brazil are at the bottom with a pair of defeats.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>World Classic: U.S. &#8216;crushes&#8217; Great Britain<\/h2>\n<p>In the game at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas, Great Britain took the lead thanks to Nate Eatoun, who homered on Tarik Skubal&#8217;s first pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. offense woke up in the fifth chapter with a rally that began with Ernie Clement&#8217;s wild pitch, followed by Kyle Schwarber&#8217;s four-corner homer that brought in a run, and closed with Gunnar Henderson&#8217;s two-run homer that pushed two more across the diamond to take a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>One inning later, the barrage continued with sacrifice bunts by Alex Bregman and Will Smith and a single by Aaron Judge that put the Americans away 8-1 and sealed the 9-1 lead in the seventh with a sacrifice fly by Bregman.<\/p>\n<p>The awakening of the U.S. offense came in the fifth episode with a five-run rally, crowned by Kyle Schwarber&#8217;s solo home run and Gunnar Henderson&#8217;s two-run homer with the house full.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB stars did not stop there: Aaron Judge and Alex Bregman (who produced two with sacrifice bunts) finished the scoring for the 9-1 final score.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the U.S. prepares for the most anticipated clash of the sector this Monday against Mexico.<\/p>\n<h2>Italy whitens and puts pressure on<\/h2>\n<p>In the other group match, Italy had a dream debut with an 8-0 whitewashing of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The power of the &#8220;Azzurri&#8221; was commanded by Dominic Canzone (Seattle Mariners) and an explosive Dante Nori (Phillies), who blew a double.<\/p>\n<p>With this result, Italy provisionally tied with <a href=\"https:\/\/nuevaonda.com\/en\/victory-cry-mexico-punishes-great-britain-in-its-debut-at-the-world-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico<\/a> for second place in the group, while the Brazilians accumulated their second defeat of the tournament and sink to the bottom of the table along with the British.<\/p>\n<p>In the next group matches, Brazil will play Mexico on Sunday and Italy will take on Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The United States will be back in action in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/es\/world-baseball-classic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Baseball Classic<\/a> on Monday, when it faces Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: USA vs Great Britain World Classic<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>With information from EFE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stars and stripes machine shows no mercy. In an exhibition of power at Daikin Park, the USA team beat Great Britain 9-1, consolidating its place at the top of Group B of the World Baseball Classic with a perfect 2-0 record. Mexico and Italy follow with one win each; Great Britain and Brazil are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":151060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,47],"tags":[823,1253],"class_list":["post-151061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","category-sports","tag-mlb-en","tag-world-series"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>USA Great Britain World Classic: Power of the Dream Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"USA adds its second win in the World Baseball Classic with a 9-1 victory over Great Britain. 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