{"id":500957,"date":"2026-03-03T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:40:13","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\/us\/500957\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start WBC opener for Team USA against Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \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\">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>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>&#8220;It&#8217;s set up,&#8221; DeRosa said. &#8220;There 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.&#8221;<\/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\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start on the mound for Team USA in its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1302,3811,3812,2091,134,3729,363,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-500957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-international","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}