It is Wednesday, March 11th, 2026. This is another WBC edition of baseball today.

That is my man, Trevor Ploup. I am Chris Rose, producer Dan along for the ride as well.

Well, do you have your, uh, your calculus in the hand as we sit here trying to do the run ratio per

inning stuff? Is this really what it's come down to?

It's not that hard.

I know it's not.

I know it's not.

But the fact that we're going to get into this about like calculations and stuff.

It's insane.

Yeah.

We didn't think we'd be talking about this.

But here we are based on what happened last night in Houston.

One-two pitch, Judge, swings and misses, and Italy has pulled off a stunner.

The biggest win in Italian baseball history, they shocked the United States 8 to 6.

How do you describe what we witnessed tonight?

Spectacular, fantastic, incredible. I'm not surprised, though.

It's super tough. I mean, guys in there frustrated. It is what it is, though. I mean, we've got to own it, right? Like, went out there today. Like I said, we had right guys that the plate at the right time. Just couldn't push it across at the end. I got to credit Italy, man. They tacked on runs. It was 3-0. Then Caglio goes deep. PCA kept us in the game. Two big swings

of the bat. Bullpen came in, did their job on the back end. Bednar was great. Mason

Miller was explosive. So yeah, it's tough.

How shocked are you? Okay. I mean, before we get into everything else that we're going to talk about, just the fact that team USA lost to team Italy, I am shocked.

And I know that's a bunch of big leaguers over there and you have to understand the game of baseball this can happen.

But I'm definitely shocked.

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