US Comeback Falls Shorts In Stunning Loss To Italy

Yeah, I did not see that coming. I tried to do a deep dive into these teams before the WBC started, and while Italy is by no means a pushover, I figured that Mexico would be the United States’s biggest test in pool play. I was very much wrong. Now the United States finds itself hoping that Italy can beat Mexico tomorrow and go undefeated in pool play. If this happens, the United States will have avoided complete disaster. If they fail to make it out of pool play, it’ll go down as one of the biggest disasters in the history of this tournament. That’s not me being hyperbolic either. The United States went all out to assemble the best possible roster for this tournament. You can’t come away from this without at least making it to the quarterfinals.