Canada vs Colombia summary: scores, stats and highlights | 2023 World Baseball Classic
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Canada seizes the moment tonight
Canada beats Colombia by five runs. Three of those in the eight. Colombia started out very well. Almeida seemed in control of the pitching. But Canada, slowly and bit by bit started to gain some Gounod on Colombia. On the top of the third, Colombia decided to change things up and bring Santamaria, who let the first run on his second try at the mount.
Canada seemed to have a plan and knew what they were doing. Canada lost by 12 to Team USA last night, but that might have been to reserve the arms for tonight. A more accessible game for the guy in the north of the continent.
Now Canada will close with Mexico for a real chance at making it out of the pool group. Colombia will have to battle it out with Team USA next. This means that the South Americans are surely out of the tournament. They did great by beating a favorite like Mexico. It is their only second outing at the WBC, so there is a lot of ground to grow.
Urshela with the hit to left field and that’s all she wrote for Colombia and Canada tonight.
Sanchez out! Double play for Canada as Colombia almost gets the hit.
Colombia with two hits here and no outs!!! Wow wow wow. Don’t leave yet people. Mendoza with the base hit.
Oscar Mercado singles on a line drive to left fielder to Robson.
Owen Caissie lines out to center fielder Oscar Mercado. And Bottom of the nine here.
Canada looking good here!!! Colombia now down 0-5. That was a big hit by Otto and Colombia seems to have given up.
HOME RUN!!!
OTTO LOPEZ!!!!!! With runners in first and second!!!! Better than his bunt attempt earlier on today. Three base HR!
Young with another base hit to center field! Runners on first and second. And Lopez comes up now.
O’Neill getting on base. Another base hit for the Canadian’s. Not the script Colombia wanted for the last inning here.
Jordan Diaz grounds out! Colombia in trouble as we head into the 9th inning here.
Meibrys Viloria called out swinging! Uff bad bad for Colombia two outs fast
Pitching substitution
Trevor Brigden replaces Curtis Taylor.
Reynaldo Rodriguez strikes out swinging.
Clarke with a ground ball and Colombia closes this one out. They give up another run. Two at bat here. Don’t leave anything can happen.
Julien with a infield hit. And bases loaded for Canada. Two outs. Big trouble for Colombia. Clarke on now.
Julien comes on. He has a 2-3 today. Not bad for the Canadian.
And Cassie take his place at first. Colombia with a change of pitching. Garcia leaves and Ocampo comes on.
Run Canada! 2-0
Canada makes it 2-0 at the eight. Colombia will have two at bat to make this good. But it doesn’t seem likely. One out and runner on first for the Canadians. And 3-2 for Cassie here on Garcia. Big trouble for Colombia.
Line drive to left field and Canada its now 2-0 here. Garcia was too hot. Too many 96mph fast balls. Bad call for Colombia there.
Naylor out on a swing a miss. Big strikeout for Garcia! Two outs and runner on third.
Toro! Swing and a miss here. Garcia looking to mend some errors here.
Otto Lopez with a triple on to center field! And Colombia cut off man drops it letting Otto get on third! Colombia in trouble here. No outs runner on third.
Elias Diaz grounds out! Colombia can’t make anything happen as they change their batting lineup. Two more innings for the South Americans to make something happen. Canada looking solid here.
Alfaro! Almost there but not good enough. He is out of there and Colombia on a 2-0 now on the bottom of the seventh.
Infield hit by Alfaro! Gets called safe, but they will review at first base.
Gio Urshela pops out to catcher Bo Naylor in foul territory. 0-9 for Urshela in the WBC. Can’t win with those numbers.
Mercado!!!! With a nice out!! As Young hits it to center field and the Colombian has to do a dive to get the out. And Colombia saves this one for now.
Canada with one in second and Young comes up. Let’s see what they can do.
O’Neill swings and misses! Nine strikeout for Colombia tonight!
Clarke steals second! And Colombia in trouble again.
Clarke get his fourth ball and the pitching switch not working for Colombia. Rio was doing great.
Clarke with the 1-2 count here. Make that 2-2 and missed the strikeout by this much.
Pitching substitution
Pedro Garcia replaces Rio Gomez
Julien out on 3. Pim, pum, pam and you out.
Rio Gomez here again as he is looking to get his strike out count go up.
Ramirez with the long drive hit!! And Canada gets there. Almost a two run HR for the Colombians.
Frias!! To center field with a two out single. Nice play by Colombia and Ramirez now.
Jordan Diaz flies out to right fielder Owen Caissie! Another hit down to right field for Colombia.
Pitching substitution
Curtis Taylor replaces Noah Skirrow
Swing a miss!! Gomez get his first strike out! He is a native of Phoenix and the people are cheering for him! Robson his old high school teammate will now sit on this one.
Robson comes up and a 2-1 count for the Canadian. Make that 2-2.
Cassie get on base as he walks. Gomez first let up in the game.
Colombia looking to get back on bat. Canada is without their bet player, but on the scoresheet here. Gomez now on for Colombia on the mount. Don’t miss a moment.
Bo Naylor grounds out, first baseman Reynaldo Rodriguez for the out. Going fast here for Colombia.
Dayan Frias to first baseman Reynaldo Rodriguez at shortstop, Abraham Toro grounds out.
Dilson Herrera hits a fly out to Owen Caissie in right field. That was fast. Colombia is not looking good here. Canada is cruising.
To right fielder Owen Caissie, Reynaldo Rodriguez flies out. Skirrow looking good for Canada. He is holding.
Elias Diaz flies out to right fielder Owen Caissie.. Not a good start for Colombia in the bottom of the 5th.
Otto Lopez grounds out; Gio Urshela to Reynaldo Rodriguez at first base. And the double play.
Colombia looking nervous. This is the second time at WBC and you can tell they are a bit out of their element. But great effort. Canada who has never made it out of the pool. Looking better.
Pitching substitution
Jhon Romero replaces Reiver Sanmartin
Jared Young flies out to center fielder Oscar Mercado. And Colombia with a second out pitching change.
Reiver Sanmartin intentionally walks Tyler O'Neill. Colombia didn’t want to put a lefty with a righty.
Denzel Clarke with a hit! Ground ball to right field. And Colombia in trouble again.
A crisp fly ball to center fielder Oscar Mercado allows douard Julien to get on base for the third time on the game.
Jorge Alfaro grounds into a double play! Colombia saw a line drive hit and wanted to make it happen. But they were to wild here. Pace yourself.
Urshela! Too eager and strikes out on a 3-2 count. Colombia looking shaky here.
Urshela wild! He is looking for a big hit here. He should pace himself. 2-2 count here.
Ramirez! With line drive single on left field!! Colombia starts swinging on this one. Too bad he didn’t go for second.
Swing and a misss!! Sanmartin gives up one run, but saves two more. Now is Colombia’s turn.
Colombia in trouble now. Runners in 1st and 2nd. 2-2 count and this could get worse for a team that looked solid.
Canada makes it 0-1!! Naylor hits center field and Diaz couldn’t get there. First run of the game here.
One and one for Naylor and Canada can see the opportunity for a run here. Sanmartin trying to get this guy out.
And Toro out! Pop to center field as he tried to bring those guys home. Two runners still and here comes Naylor for Canada.
Swing and a miss!! Otto Lopez is out of there!! The bunt didn’t work. Had two strikes and went for the hit and out.
Canada uses this opportunity to have a chat, Canada will bunt on this one. Sanmartin will have to be on his toes.
Pitch Substitution
Pitching Change: Reiver Sanmartin replaces Adrian Almeida.
Colombia with a change of pitcher. Almeida giving a hit and a walk on the top of the fourth. Team manager can’t let this game get away. So Almeida will be changed here guys.
On a grounder to Harold Ramirez in right field, Tyler O'Neill with the single.
Dayan Frias swings out, and Oscar Mercado is caught stealing second base. The double out for the Canadian’s as Colombia was too greedy.
Four balls and one strike for Frias. Canada feeling the heat here.
Jared Young in left field receives a single from Oscar Mercado on a crisp line drive. Colombia gets on base for the first time in the game. Here comes Frias.
Jordan Diaz goes fast for team Colombia.
In foul territory, Freddie Freeman pops out to third baseman Gio Urshela. Bottom of the third coming up. Colombia and Canada not giving each other anything in this game.
He gets on base! Julien on first again. And Canada starts again.
Robson, out on three as well. Almeida smoking them out. And Julien coming up. Only with a base hit today.
Cassie strikes out on a three count. Almeida showing he is ready for this.
Cassie comes up for Canada. Stay tune guys because this is going fast.
Dillon Herrera strikes out!! Wow in a very fast fashion, Canada is back at bat,
Reynaldo strikes out! Canada going fast here too.
This game is going fast here people.
Elias Diaz grounds out, sending first baseman Freddie Freeman across to shortstop Otto Lopez.
Naylor high to the mount on a pop. Colombia in a one, two, three fashion!
Swing and a miss! Almeida’s third strikeout so far. The Colombian looking in form tonight. Toro didn’t see the 97mph ball.
Here comes Toro. A big hitter. Let’s see what he can do against Almeida. Ball, strike and foul so far.
Gio Urshela hits Reynaldo Rodriguez after third baseman Otto Lopez grounded out
Lopes comes for Canada. Almeida is looking to get him out. Strike and two fouls for Team Canada at the moment.
Abraham Toro at third base, Edouard Julien at second base, and Freddie Freeman at first base turn a double play after Jorge Alfaro grounded into 1B. And here comes Canada
Gio Urshela walks and here comes Alfaro!
Edouard Julien to Freddie Freeman at first base after Harold Ramirez grounds out.
Ramirez comes first. The RF seems in form.
Swing and a miss! Almeida gets’ his second strikeout of the game! Jared Young saw all he could and will sit now. Here comes Colombia for the bottom of the first.
Here goes Julien!!!
Julien steals second base!! As Colombia’s catcher throws a bit wild to 2B trying to catch him. First stolen base of the game.
Swing and a miss!!! 92mph there and O’Neill wanted to get that full count! Here we got. Two outs for Colombia in the top of the first.
Full count here for O’Neill. And this should be interesting.
Eduard Julien tries to steal and almost gets caught on first as he tripped on his way back. Uff we don’t know, 1B Rodriguez might have gotten him there,
Freeman hits a hard ball on center field and Julien goes back to first. One out on the first and Tyler O’Neill comes up.
Edouard Julien singles to center fielder Oscar Mercado on a ground ball.
Here we go!! Almeida for Colombia get’s started as they are the home team tonight!.
All set to go!
This is people, the game should be starting soon. Stay tuned and don’t miss a single bat!
A bit of what Team Colombia can do
Yeah this game promises to be very fun. Both Colombia and Canada are good teams that can deliver a good game.
Yeah this is movie stuff
What do you guys think of this performance? Maybe we’ll see something similar today.
Tournament MVP?
Will Ohtani be the MVP this time around? He is the best player in the MLB so it would be no surprise if he takes the award home.
A bit of history of Team Canada
Team Canada is not a top team when it comes to the WBC but maybe 2023 is the year that this changes. They started well by beating the Brits. Colombia is tough team, but Canada can win this one if they keep to their strengths.
Little rough?
Can Canada comeback from this loss? This could be the type of games that can mess up a team’s morale. Colombia should take advantage of this.
What a moment for WBC history!
Strike out three MLB stars, get a professional contract at a parking lot. Unlock new achievement. That’s exactly what happened last night. Nicaragua’s pitcher will now be heading to play for the Detroit Lions. What movies are made of.
What do you guys think?
Can Noah bring a win home? Canada and Colombia are both evenly match. You won’t want to miss this one.
Today’s schedule for the WBC
This is a really exciting day for baseball. Just get your beer, coke, water, and choice of finger food sit down and relax with us as we give you the best commentary of the day.
We have our line up for Team Colombia!
What do you guys think? Can this team put up a fight against the North Americans?
Hello! Hello! We welcome everyone to the live commentary of the game between Canada and Colombia for Pool C in the World Baseball Classic.
Kick-off at 12 p.m. local time at Chase Field in Phoenix.
Both teams are looking to get back on the winning horse after losing their last games of the tournament. Team Canada beat their counterparts of Great Britain in their first match but consequently lost to team USA in their second match. On the other hand, Colombia was able to edge out Mexico in their first game but lost to the Brits in their second game.
Sporting books have them both at +2500 regarding who will take this one. It is an essential tie. It promises to be one of the most even-level games in the competition.
A win here will put them on the right track to earning a place in the next round of the competition. So follow us as we begin the build-up to the game.