The still-emotional Venezuela manager Omar López was interviewed on the trophy podium by Tom Verducci, and here’s what he had to say about what his team just did for its country:
“Our country right now, they’re going to celebrate for about a week. This is for our country.
“When you have good people behind you like Johan Santana, Robinson Chirinos, all the scouts, there’s a lot of good people. All the coaches, last night after the game, we went back to our floor and started to study USA until almost 3 o’clock in the morning, and that was to win tonight and we did it! I couldn’t have done it without these people behind me.”