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SPORTS Wednesday 15 March 2017

KING

of the

er game at the World Baseball HILL

Venezuela’s Miguel Cabrera
delivers against Italy during
the ninth inning of a tie-break-

Classic in Guadalajara, Mexi-
co, Monday, March 13, 2017.
Associated Press
Venezuela

rallies past

Italy 4-3 to
reach 2nd

round of WBC

CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
GUADALAJARA, Mexico
(AP) — Miguel Cabrera
hit a tying homer and
Rougned Odor delivered
a go-ahead single dur-
ing a three-run rally in the
ninth inning that carried
Venezuela past Italy 4-3 on
Monday night and into the
second round of the World
Baseball Classic.
In a one-game tiebreaker
that determined the final
team to advance out of
the first round, Cabrera’s
solo shot to right-center
evened the score at 2 in
the top of the ninth. With a
runner on, Odor launched
an opposite-field drive off
the top of the left-center
fence and held up at first
base with an RBI single af-
ter thinking the ball had Arnold Palmer’s presence remains strong at Bay Hill
cleared the wall.
Odor later scored on a
nicely executed suicide
squeeze by Alcides Esco-
bar. Francisco Rodriguez
gave up Alex Liddi’s lead- In this March 25, 2013, file photo, Tiger
off homer in the bottom Woods, left, jokes with Arnold Palmer
half before getting three after winning the Arnold Palmer Invita-
straight groundouts for the tional golf tournament in Orlando, Fla.
save, eliminating Italy. Associated Press
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