Let’s go!
Canada wins: Canada clinches the group, Puerto Rico is runner-up
Cuba wins: Puerto Rico clinches the group, Cuba moves on as runner-up
A simple tiebreaker when it’s just head-to-head, right?
“And this offends you as an American?”
“No, it offends me as a person who pays a lot of attention to tiebreakers and weird formatting rules in international sports competitions!”
Italy and Mexico tomorrow night knowing they can both advance with certain scorelines:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrac...
Now updated that it's 8-6 Italy over USA in WBC as USA bats in 9th:
World Baseball Classic pool play tiebreakers, after head-to-head: RULES & RULE MODIFICATIONS, CONTINUED » The tied teams shall be ranked in the standings according to the lowest quotient of fewest runs allowed divided by the number of defensive outs recorded in the games in that round between the teams tied. » The tied teams shall be ranked in the standings according to the lowest quotient of fewest earned runs allowed divided by the number of defensive outs recorded in the games in that round between the teams tied. » The tied teams shall be ranked in the standings according to the highest batting average in games in that round between the teams tied. » Standings shall be determined by the drawing of lots, conducted by WBCI.
USA to quarters if Italy beats Mexico
If Mexico beats Italy, a 3-way tie, all 1-1 vs. others. next tiebreaker: runs allowed / def. outs
USA 11 R/54 outs (.2037)
Mexico 5 R/24 outs (.2083)
Italy 6 R/27 outs (.2222)
Mexico wins 9-inning game w/1-4 runs, USA is out
Mex. win with 5+ runs, Italy out
RON MARINACCIO
Bam Adebayo scores 83 points, going 36-for-43 from the free-throw line
Derrick White (1.5) is likely to end up with the most blocks per game in a season for any NBA player at 6-4 or shorter
Dwyane Wade had 1.3 per game for the 2008-09 Heat (also 6-foot-4). The rest of the top 10 are seasons from White, Wade, David Thompson & Dennis Johnson
Bam scored THIRTY ONE in the 1st quarter?
NBA Most Points in Quarter Since 1996-97
37 Klay Thompson 1/23/15 GS v SAC (3rd Q)
34 Kevin Love 11/23/16 CLE v POR (1st)
33 Carmelo Anthony 12/10/08 DEN v MIN (3rd)
32 Karl-Anthony Towns 3/14/22 MIN a SA (3rd)
31 Bam Adebayo 3/10/26 MIA v WAS (1st)
As someone who’s spent most of the winter thinking “Won’t somebody PLEASE sign Danny Coulombe?!” this really speaks to me
haven't seen a Yankees/Red Sox alliance like this since Manny Ramirez got in trouble for lying about being sick and hanging out at a bar with Enrique Wilson
Yankees and Red Sox homering together, mass hysteria!
Happens literally every morning I don’t see what the big deal is
Chinese Taipei/Korea game is a blast and the crowd is absolutely electric throughout
Deeply unsettling subway door sound. Where is bing bong?
Outstanding presentation on this play. Tyler Maun with an on-point call, then lays out. Steadycam op gets the shot locked in right away, Director makes the great decision to stick with it for the full trip around the basepaths. TV crew meeting the moment. It’s a beautiful thing!
Great moment (and great call @tylermaun.com)
Darell Hernaiz walks it off for Puerto Rico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Home Runs per 600 Plate Appearances
Aaron Judge MLB Career 44
Luis Arraez WBC Career 89
Skubal pulls the weak "only one game" move and then does this?!?!
OZZIE ALBIES!!!!!
The first walk-off home run in WBC history
@EliasSports
Nicaragua up 3-1 with 2 outs and nobody on, 1 out away from their first WBC win. Ceddanne Rafaela single. Xander Bogaerts bouncer to 3B that doinked off the bag and into LF for a double. First-pitch Ozzie Albies bomb. Poor Angel Obando.
No, this is not a replay 😮
Manny Machado did this TWICE IN A ROW!
Via: WBCBaseball
I would not give up a HR on that pitch to Aaron Judge because I am built different
Tyler & Ryan Rowland-Smith calling the Cuba/Panama WBC game on FS2
AHHHHH It’s @tylermaun.com calling the World Baseball Classic! Proud of you, buddy, I hope the San Juan pool is as crazy as the Taichung pool was last time!
Shohei Ohtani's grand slam, as called in Japan:
SHOHEI OHTANI GRAND SLAM
Today’s @mattbrown.bsky.social newsletter might be the clearest, most useful demonstration of the power dynamics in college basketball (and college sports in general) that I’ve ever seen.
Schools in power conferences exclude everybody else, and then blame them for their own exclusion
Yeah that is a weird one, and he had a good run and was done in the majors at 29
