{"id":508389,"date":"2026-03-07T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:34:08","slug":"team-usa-leads-brazil-in-wbc-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508389\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Leads Brazil in WBC Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current Score \u2014 Team USA 3, Brazil 1 (Bottom 4th)<\/p>\n<p>Team USA currently leads Brazil 3-1 in the fourth inning of its World Baseball Classic opener at Daikin Park in Houston. Follow along with live updates of the game below:<\/p>\n<p>Pregame<\/p>\n<p>Team USA&#8217;s starting lineup features eight All-Stars, with Logan Webb taking the bump for the stars and stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Witt Jr. &#8211; SS<br \/>\nBryce Harper &#8211; 1B<br \/>\nAaron Judge &#8211; RF<br \/>\nKyle Schwarber &#8211; DH<br \/>\nAlex Bregman &#8211; 3B<br \/>\nCal Raleigh &#8211; C<br \/>\nRoman Anthony &#8211; LF<br \/>\nByron Buxton &#8211; CF<br \/>\nBrice Turang &#8211; 2B<br \/>\nLogan Webb &#8211; SP<\/p>\n<p>Top 1st \u2014 USA 2, Brazil 0<\/p>\n<p>After a leadoff single from Bobby Witt Jr., Aaron Judge launches a two-run bomb to left field to put Team USA up early. It was the first swing of the World Baseball Classic for the Team USA captain.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom 1st \u2014 USA 2, Brazil 1<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Ramirez responds with a homer for Team Brazil in the bottom half to cut into Team USA&#8217;s lead.<\/p>\n<p>Top 3rd \u2014 USA 3, Brazil 1<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Schwarber gets the run back for Team USA with some savvy baserunning. Schwarber singled to start the inning before taking second on a wild pitch and scoring on another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current Score \u2014 Team USA 3, Brazil 1 (Bottom 4th) Team USA currently leads Brazil 3-1 in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-508389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508389","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=508389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}