The Dominican Republic rallied twice past Venezuela. They trailed 3-0 in Game 1, but rallied to force extra innings and then David Ortiz delivered a clutch 2-run single in the 10th inning for a 6-4 win. In the game in the Dominican Republic tey trailed 3-1 going into the bottom of the seventh, but Filipe Alou's pinch hit double made it 3-2, and then Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a 3-run homer to acocunt for the 5-3 win.
Here are the line scores, and the box scores are at the bottom of this blog. You can click here for all 12 great all-time World Baseball Classic Teams.
| Game 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominican Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 0 | |
| Venezuela | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | |
| Game 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
| Venezuela | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 1 | ||
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
The win moves the Dominican Republican and cliches at least second place and the playoffs. However, if Cuba upsets Florida in both of the last two games, then the Dominican Republic would join Puerto Rico and Texas in getting a bye to the championship pool. If Florida wins at least one game against Cuba then they win the South because of the head-to-head tie breaker for sweeping the Dominican Republic back in December after Chipper Jones homer.
| Stand | South (top 3 advance) | W | L | RS | RA | Remaining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | Cuba |
| 2 | Dominican Republic | 4 | 2 | 19 | 15 | done |
| 3 | Venezuela | 3 | 3 | 22 | 21 | done |
| 4 | Cuba | 0 | 4 | 9 | 18 | Florida |
The only way Florida could drop to third place and need to go through the playoff game is if Cuba not only swept Florida, but scored at least 16 runs in the sweep to give Venezuela the tie-breaker on runs allowed.
Here are the two box scores.
| Dominican Rep. Line-up | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | Note | AB | R | H | RBI | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fernando Tatis Jr. | 6-SS | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3-r HR | ||
| Jose Ramirez | 5-3B | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2b | ||
| Vladimir Guerrero HOF | 7-OF | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Manny Ramirez | 7-OF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sammy Sosa | 7-OF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| David Ortiz HOF | 3-1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | gw-rbi | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Robinson Canó | 4-2B | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Tony Pena | 2-C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Rafael Furcal | pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | sb | ||||||
| Luis Severino | ph | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sac | ||
| Felipe Alou | 7-OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2b | ||
| Cesar Cedeno | pr-cf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | sb | ||||||
| Placido Polanco | 4-2B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| Johnny Cueto | p-1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Team .250 Gm1, .300 Gm2 | 40 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 5 | 9 | 5 | |||
| Pitching | PB | IP | H | R | ER | W/K | IP | H | R | ER | W/K | |
| Johnny Cueto | 2-8' | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2/1 | ||||||
| Ramon Martinez | 2-7' | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | ||||||
| Luis Castillo | 2-7' | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0/3 | ||||||
| Armando Benitez | 2-9' | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 W | ||||||
| Francisco Cordero | 2-8' | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | ||||||
| Bartolo Colon | 2-7' | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/2 S | ||||||
| Luis Severino | 2-7' | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1/9 | ||
| Pascual Perez | 2-7' | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0/1 W | ||
| Mario Soto | 2-7' | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 H | ||
| Octavio Dotel | 2-7' | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 S | ||
| 10 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3/8 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3/10 |
| Venezuela Line-up | Pos | AB | R | H | RBI | Note | AB | R | H | RBI | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald Acuna Jr. | 7-OF | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | hr,2b | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Jose Altuve | 4-2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Luis Aparicio HOF | 6-SS | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | sb | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Bobby Abreu | 7-OF | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | sb | ||
| Miguel Cabrera | 3-1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | hr | |
| Salvador Perez | 2-C | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | hr | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2b | |
| Magglio Ordonez | 7-OF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Edgardo Alfonzo | 5-3B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2b | ||
| German Marquez | p-1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | hr | ||||||
| Jhoulys Chacin | p-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | sac | ||
| Carlos Gonzalez | ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2b | ||
| Victor Martinez | ph | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Dave Concepcion | pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Andres Galarraga | ph | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| Cesar Tovar | pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Team .270 Gm1, .242 Gm2 | 37 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 33 | 3 | 8 | 3 | ||||
| Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | W/K | IP | H | R | ER | W/K | ||
| German Marquez | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1/6 | |||||||
| Ranger Suarez | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/2 | |||||||
| Felipe Vazquez | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Ugueth Urbina | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1/2 L | |||||||
| Eduardo Rodriguez | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | |||||||
| Jhoulys Chacin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1/5 | ||
| Pablo Lopez | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | ||
| Henderson Alvarez III | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0/0 L | ||
| Carlos Carrasco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | ||
| Francisco Rodriguez | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | ||
| Freddy Garcia | 4-7' | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
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