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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014 Seth Lugo<\/a> made a successful return to the World Baseball Classic on Friday.<\/p>\n

Lugo helped Puerto Rico to a 5-0 win over Colombia in their Group A opener. The right-hander pitched four-plus innings of three-hit ball at Hiram Bithorn Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was awesome. Every inning you could feel the fans,\u201d Lugo said. \u201cGo out there and get the W. It was really special for me, something I won\u2019t forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwin D\u00edaz worked the ninth for Puerto Rico. Tito Polo led off with a pinch-hit single and advanced on a passed ball before D\u00edaz struck out the side.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old D\u00edaz missed the 2023 MLB season after he hurt his right knee while celebrating a Puerto Rico victory in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnbelievable moment for us to see Sugar coming in from the bullpen and to hear the crowd, not only for him but for his family to be here and that moment for him,\u201d Puerto Rico manager Yadier Molina said. \u201cI\u2019m excited for him.\u201d <\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Lugo also played for Puerto Rico in the 2017 WBC. He went 2-1 with a 4.20 ERA in three starts, striking out 12 in 15 innings.<\/p>\n

The Louisiana native started the 2017 final against the United States. He surrendered four runs and five hits in four-plus innings in an 8-0 loss.<\/p>\n

Facing Colombia in this year\u2019s edition of the international competition, Lugo breezed through the first inning before running into trouble in the second.<\/p>\n

Colombia put runners on second and third with one out. But Lugo escaped the jam when he retired Carlos Mart\u00ednez on a flyball to left and struck out Brayan Buelvas swinging.<\/p>\n

He surrendered two one-out singles in the fourth before Mart\u00ednez bounced into an inning-ending double play.<\/p>\n

Lugo was replaced by Rico Garcia<\/a> after issuing a leadoff walk to Buelvas in the fifth. The Kansas City Royals<\/a> pitcher got a warm ovation from the crowd of 18,793 as he walked off the mound.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that was really cool. I got goosebumps,\u201d Lugo said. \u201cI get goosebumps now thinking about it. You come off, and the fans are chanting your name. That doesn\u2019t happen all the time. That\u2019s really, really special.\u201d <\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014 Seth Lugo made a successful return to the World Baseball Classic on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-519832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519832","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=519832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}