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How Ezequiel Tovar’s Surprising Leadership Sparked a Rockies Revolution in the World Baseball Classic

How Ezequiel Tovar's Surprising Leadership Sparked a Rockies Revolution in the World Baseball Classic

“I’m obviously thankful to have gone over there. I’m thankful for the opportunity, and to all those coaches for giving me the opportunity,” Mejia said of his experience. “I think I’m going to try to bring as much as I can from there – the energy, the atmosphere, the feel of the Classic. I think I learned a lot while I was over there. So I’ll just bring everything I can from that experience, all that atmosphere.”

Team Italy (5-1, eliminated in semifinals)

If you had said before the tournament that Italy would not only make the final four for the first time in World Baseball Classic history, but also be the surprise top seed and the final undefeated team standing before falling to Venezuela in the semifinals, you would have been called crazy. However, that’s exactly what happened this year as Italy combined a potent offense, solid pitching, a designer jacket, an in-dugout espresso machine, and il bacio from team captain Vinnie Pasquantino to defeat strong teams like Mexico and the United States in convincing fashion.

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