Trea Turner homered twice and the United States romped over Cuba 14\u002D2 to reach its second straight World Baseball Classic final.
Goldschmidt hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the first on a 112 mph rocket high over the left-field wall. He added a two-run single in the fifth.
Fans in the sellout crowd of 35,779 at LoanDepot Park sounded evenly split between the U.S. and Cuba. Several hundred people gathered before the game outside the ballpark in Miami’s Little Havana section to protest the presence of the Cuban team, whose island nation has been under communist rule since 1959.Article contentPlay was briefly interrupted in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings when fans ran onto the field.
An Olympic gold medalist in 1992, 1996 and 2004, Cuba’s national team has struggled in recent years as many top players left for MLB. Cuba failed to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Games.Article content “It’s a dream for us to mix these players,” manager Armando Johnson said. “We want these players to join us in any championship.”
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