LOS ANGELES - Breaking down Wednesday’s final game of the World Baseball Classic between USA and Puerto Rico.
United States 8, Puerto Rico 0
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The game: It was an agonizing decision, torturous really.
Toronto Blue Jays ace Marcus Stroman really wanted to pitch for Puerto Rico, where his mother was born and raised, but the more he thought about it, he felt he needed to pitch for Team USA.
It turned out to the decision that was the difference in Team USA’s first WBC championship.
Stroman took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and even after a third-inning walk to Carlos Beltran, immediately induced a double play grounder.