{"id":510632,"date":"2026-03-03T02:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510632\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:05:07","slug":"san-francisco-giants-ace-logan-webb-will-start-wbc-opener-for-team-usa-against-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510632\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start WBC opener for Team USA against Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start on the mound for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aaron-judge-united-states-world-baseball-classic-14a6687f5e767d491ec76b8e4df53473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Team USA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Team USA<\/a> in its first World Baseball Classic game Friday night against Brazil, manager Mark DeRosa said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DeRosa added that two-time defending AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal is expected to start Saturday against Britain, followed by NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes versus Mexico on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>New York Mets right-hander Nolan McLean is tentatively scheduled to start on Tuesday in the final pool-play game against Italy, even though he&#8217;s dealing with an illness and wasn&#8217;t with the U.S. team for Monday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s set up,\u201d DeRosa said. \u201cThere are obviously guardrails for the tournament to begin with, pitch-count wise, but there&#8217;s also guardrails for guys having to throw on certain days to get ready for their team&#8217;s opening day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. will play two exhibtion games in Arizona on Tuesday and Wednesday before traveling to Houston for the WBC opener against Brazil. Skenes will start Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Giants. DeRosa said Matthew Boyd, Gabe Speier, David Bednar, Griffin Jax and Mason Miller will also take the mound.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal is expected to make just one start for the U.S. before rejoining the Detroit Tigers for the remainder of spring training.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Brandt, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start on the mound for Team USA in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[5585,7426,49,48,9631,490,96005,14574,1443,506,57775,10726,1510,462,475,45391,504,512,82,489,58784,148306],"class_list":{"0":"post-510632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-david-bednar","13":"tag-detroit-tigers","14":"tag-gabe-speier","15":"tag-griffin-jax","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-logan-webb","18":"tag-mark-derosa","19":"tag-mason-miller","20":"tag-matthew-boyd","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-new-york-mets","23":"tag-nolan-mclean","24":"tag-paul-skenes","25":"tag-san-francisco-giants","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-tarik-skubal","28":"tag-team-usa","29":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}