WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Venezuela tops Puerto Rico in impassioned baseball game
Venezuela silenced Puerto Rico's bats and found a way to give the island its first loss of the World Baseball Classic.
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LOS ANGELES -- It's not easy to create tradition in a sport already dripping with it. Baseball is defined by and obsessed with its heritage and rituals. Here comes the World Baseball Classic and it's as if Sunday School was switched to Saturday. Baseball purists dismiss the event as heresy.
Venezuela silenced Puerto Rico's bats and found a way to give the island its first loss of the World Baseball Classic.
Puerto Rico embarrassed the United States, winning the game in seven innings because of the mercy rule and putting the Americans on the edge of elimination at the WBC.
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