MIAMI — Impromptu dance parties broke out in the concourses. A player banged a drum in the dugout while countless fans did so in the stands. Flags waved from the seats and hung over the railings. The usually sparsely populated stadium was filled with people, roars and music. No strike was too small to celebrate. Sitting was optional.
The setting was loanDepot Park, but what happened in and around the home of the Miami Marlins on Saturday and Sunday — the first two days of Pool D play of the World Baseball Classic — could just as easily have been scenes from San Juan, P.