USA v Dominican Republic: World Baseball Classic semi-final – live

⚾ Winners will play either Italy or Venezuela in final

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The Rules

We’re at the semifinals and that means these starters can pitch big boy innings, up to 95 pitches. Now, if Mark DeRosa sticks with Skenes that long I’ll eat my hat and give you my kids, but as we know with DeRosa, anything is possible. There’s no mercy rule in the semis, because these folks have paid a lot of cash to sit in these seats, and no matter what happens, they’re getting their nine innings of baseball. We have the pitch clock, two manager challenges per team, and god forbid we go to extra innings, yes, the ghost runner rule with a runner starting the frame on second base will apply. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen, right?