When Baseball Becomes Battlefield: The Unexpected US-Venezuela Showdown You Didn’t See Coming

The other comment that I saw was from a player and I absolutely laugh out loud any time I hear people say something like this. Juan Soto responded to something by saying, “We showed who the better team was.” I always find it comical that players think this is some sort of victory to claim you’re a better team when you lose. Soto said this because the United States beat the Dominican Republic. Yes, Soto, you did show who the better team was. It was America, because they won the game. Much of the talk has been about the final called strikeout. Sure, the ball was down, but other angles have it crossing the plate at the knees. It is hard to tell what is right and what is wrong anymore. It sucks that this one pitch ended the game, but they had eight other innings that didn’t end with that pitch to win the game. The bottom line is that they didn’t get the job done. There were eight total runners left on base in the game for the Dominican. You’re telling me that one pitch is the reason they lost? No. Like anything else, it is a series of things that cause them to show that the US was the better team.