Alexis Wilson drove in two runs and the pitcher handcuffed the batting rival in just 4 hits for Team Mexico to claim their second win of the 2023 World Baseball Classic last night, beating Team Great Britain with a tight 2-1 scoreboard, in tense time. game played at Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

With this result, the team led by Benjamín Gil put their mark at 2 wins and 1 loss at the top of Group C, and today they will play their last game of the group stage, which will be killed or killed.

The teams of Mexico and Canada will face off this afternoon at Chase Field, in a duel where the winner will go to the next round and the loser will go home. Mazatlan’s José Urquidy of the Houston Astros is announced as a starter for Team Azteca, left-hander Rob Zastryzny, owned by the Pittsburgh Pirates, will open for the Canadiens.

Team Mexico went scoreless in the first inning against 22-year-old pitcher Joseph King, who walked and got a hit in that inning but managed to snag the ring on the board.

THEY GO TO THE FRONT

However, at the end of the second round, the Azteca team hit, after Isaac Paredes hit a single to left field, Alan Trejo negotiated a base on walks and both advanced a base after a wild pitch , a scenario that Alexis Wilson took advantage of. To hit hard ground at third base, where BJ Murray Jr. lined up but his pitch to first was too wide, Wilson made it safely to first base and Paredes fell to the pentagon to score the run from the pool.

Taijuan Walker, the stellar right-hander who will pitch for the Philadelphia Phillies and who is of Chihuahuan descent, opened the game for the “Tri”, providing a terrific quality start to keep the British hitters at bay. Walker stayed on the mound for 4 innings and allowed just one hit, no runs, gave up only one walk and instead had 8 strikeouts, the most for a Mexican pitcher in a World Classic game.

The pitch limit kept Walker from coming back for the fifth round, which left-hander Erubiel Armenta, a Phillies prospect, threw, got a few thirds and third went to Manny Barreda.

THE TIE FALLS

Barreda himself launched the sixth, in which the British managed to level the score, with a run very similar to that which the Mexicans had achieved, as Chavez Young gave the voice of the attack with a brace towards the field right, Barreda dominated his The next two foes and after Young stole the third, Harry Ford negotiated a walk that took Barreda out of the game, relieved by southpaw Jo Jo Romero, who was met by Murray with a ball at the ground at shortstop, Alan Trejo made a big effort, but his pitch was late for the first and Young rang the tying one.

The match became tense, with both teams threatening to score but failing to crystallize their efforts to keep the suspense going in a Mexican-dominated stadium in the stands.

IT STILL DOES

It was deep in the fateful seventh inning, when the game-defining run came and fell into the spikes of Alan Trejo, who opened the inning by negotiating a walk against the relief of Tahnaj Thomas, after a takedown, a wild throw. This allowed Trejo to move into second place and from there he scored through a Wilson line drive that fell into left field, to put El Tri in front and unleash madness in the stadium.

The Aztec relief team played brilliantly, Jesús Cruz dropped the eighth inning in order and Giovanny Gallegos of the St. Louis Cardinals snagged the zero in the ninth to score the save and give Mexico their second victory of the tournament and eliminate from the competition to English.

DECISION

The win was matched by southpaw Jo Jo Romero, who pitched an inning and a scoreless third, allowed two hits, allowed a transfer and prescribed a chocolate, while Tahnaj Thomas took the loss, barely going out one, allowing a hit and the difference. , he walked and didn’t hit anyone.