Mexico vs. USA Game Highlights | 2023 World Baseball Classic

We've been in enough WBC to know that you get playoff atmospheres. This this is something else it feels like by the time this night is done we might see the largest crowd to ever watch a baseball game in this stadium. The reaction of the Mexican fans in a Rosarito never budged from first. That's going to go our way and it does. And here is Meneses hit deep left field to Mexico. Oh the pitcher Nick Martinez distracted by Rosarito's presence at first held the ball held the ball held the ball finally threw a pitch and he missed his spot. This is a pretty interesting matchup here. Kyle Tucker against Patrick Sandoval Tucker has owned Sandoval early in his career and he hammers this one down the right field line and into the corner Tucker to second Verdugo having trouble and Tucker is in with a triple. Kyle Tucker is a scary scary hitter. Anderson just a terrific player his first at bat lines it in a right field. That's a hit and that's a run for USA. This is a beautiful swing with a runner at third base. He's just thinking about driving something to the opposite field and plating that run and he delivers Randy Rosarito in the box base hit in the first Anderson and he's there and makes the catch and holds on. I tell you what you talk about running a long way to get to a ball. Anderson took off as soon as that ball was off the Rosarito is back. He's a tremendous athletic shortstop. Now Manassas who brought half of the crowd out of their seats with an absolute bolt. That's a fair ball. Arenado is human. Arenado has got such great range he gloves it and when he reaches in there he didn't get a good grip on the baseball and just flat out dropped it. It's an infield hit for Manassas to Les big time power for this lefty bat kind of off the end of the bat. That's McNeil out there and he can't get it off his glove stumbles a bit and that's going to go as a base hit McNeil on the shift was way out in right field. It is bouncing as you reach for it and it actually went off the thumb of his glove. Andy Pettitte is on his way out to the mound. Twenty one pitches this inning sixty five is the pitch limit. He's ten away. So USA has to get an arm ready for Edis who walked back in the first big opportunity for Mexico. He shoots it to the right side. McNeil has it fires it and he's safe in Mexico. And that's it for Nick Martinez. Think about the small margins in this city. The bobble by Aranado on the Meneses ground ball to Les Little Looper that was just off the glove of McNeil and that one that was in and out of the glove of Goldschmidt and Mexico cashes in with a run. Kendall Graveman got in gear when he became a reliever comes in in a big spot here first and second. Rios 0 4 5 in this world baseball classic slow tapper Graveman has it darts towards first gets the out. Mexico adds on Brady Singer on the mound now for USA. Splendid year with the Royals time is a good looking young player who gets that fastball and stays on it. Rosarito batting with a base open. Well he's going to get a diet of fastballs away and sliders. He's not going to get anything to the challenge side of the inside part of the plate especially the heater. Rosarito right center field hammers it in the gap. Goal scoring is Thomas Rosarito in a second with a double for one Mexico. Why did they pitch to him there. I don't get it. I really don't get it. I mean he has proven time and time again in big situations he will drive in tough runs. He has done it already in his tournament. He did it in the postseason at a record pace. Why would you give him anything to hit. Columbia tried it. He heard him. USA tried it and he's hurt them 30 pitches for a reliever in an inning. And there's a lot of strategy we've talked about it in a series where you're going to play just four games. I mean are you saving pitches for another game. And here comes Manassas who blasted one out of here in the first inning drive to run shots Manassas again. Pitch number thirty one for Singer in orbit. And what an epic bat flip by Manassas. One of the best. That's right up there with a Jose Bautista bat flip. The two guys that can do the damage have done the damage in this inning. Adam Adavino in for USA a Rosarito now with first base open Rosarito swinging and misses and the umpires behind home plate once again. Many of them have adopted the style of the retired umpire Tom Halligan literally tore himself in half with his cold strike three. What's at stake here. It's not just a win. It's a crucial win if you're Mexico. They lost to Colombia yesterday but they win this game. They're one in one and they have the head to head tie break with Team USA in the air left field hit pretty well a Rosarito back at the wall and it's gone and Will Smith has homered he's a pretty good offensive player at eighty seven RBI has done a regular season. He's got some power and he gets this one back here. And here comes Randy a Rosarito certainly a different field now than it was in the fourth inning a Rosarito Fairbairn will score. They can't stop him eight to how you like me now to Les second and third and with one out in field in Talaz ground ball base hit left field Duran scores right behind a Rosarito Talaz makes it ten to two. A concert has broken out on court about that. I think these people are having fun. I know I am. Wow. You are what a scene. Forty seven thousand five hundred and thirty four are having a blast here at Chase Field liner to left. That's a hit. Talaz is rolling in and he scores about that. Trejo with a RBI center love his second hit eleven to two in a tournament like this you can wait around for your offense to get rolling. It's a great point Rich and part of the answer could be standing at home plate right now in the person of Bobby Witt Jr. Bobby Witt in the right field. That's a hit. And it's eleven three Bobby Witt is a dynamic young player and he can flat out fly. He was headed for third base but Oatsman ahead of him was stopped at third by third base coach Dino Ebel Mullins scores down. It's a tough spot. Now you bring Jim Anderson to the plate. Bases loaded eighth inning. Mexico needs four more outs in this game. That's a fair ball and that'll score at least two. And USA is a little bit closer. What did Yogi say. It's not over till it's over. USA has got to come from a little further behind that would set the all time record for a comeback because they've been coming back for a while here. Crowd buzzing eleven five Mexico two outs in the ninth Goldschmidt Thomas says that's mine that's number 10 he's caught in Mexico has taken down USA a crucial win in Poolsey. And it started with a jury menaceous to run home run in the first inning. They were really stung. Mexico was by that loss in extra innings yesterday tonight. That's a distant memory. Now they got the tie break and head to head against Team USA.