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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Mark DeRosa's gaffe costs Team USA

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed Team USA manager Mark DeRosa's gaffe in his team's 8-6 loss to Italy on Tuesday in the World Baseball Classic.

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0:00.0

I'm going to look at it. I'm going to get some guys off their feet. No question about it. I'd like to get Goldie a start. And, you know, he has been awesome. Just a leader of men behind the scenes with Aaron Judge. I'd like to get him in there. I'd like to get Gunner in there again.

0:14.6

A ton of respect for Italy. It's weird. We want to win this game, even though our tickets punched to the quarterfinals.

0:20.8

Now the one-two pitch. Judge.

0:24.0

Swings and misses, and Adelaie has pulled off a stunner.

0:30.2

The biggest win in Italian baseball history.

0:34.2

They shocked the United States 8 to 6.

0:38.1

And would you believe that the dream team's hopes now rest in the hands of a baseball team from Italy?

0:51.3

DeRoe may have gotten some bad information.

0:54.0

That's Mark DeRosa, the morning of last night's game.

0:58.1

So yesterday morning saying, our ticket is punched.

1:02.9

It was not punched.

1:04.4

Pool play is a weird thing.

1:06.9

And every time it happens, whether it's the World Cup,

1:10.0

or whether it is Olympic hockey, or in this case, the World Baseball Classic, I myself.

1:16.0

Bone up.

1:17.2

On the specific rules of pool play for that event.

1:21.2

If you win every game, it kind of doesn't matter.

1:24.5

But once you end up in a situation where you looked up and like, oh,

1:27.7

Team USA is down six to nothing, eh? Oh, that's probably not good.

1:32.2

Three and O through four games of pool play does not mean you have punched your ticket to the

1:39.1

quarterfinals if there are two other teams who could also finish three and one. That is correct. Now, it could be

1:46.7

that through the head-to-head matchups, you're good. If Italy wins tonight against Mexico,

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