Team USA has won its first two games at the World Baseball Classic with relative ease, racking up victories over Brazil and Great Britain over the weekend. Both tests proved to have their moments of anxiety, though, before the tournament favorites stepped on the accelerator to leave inferior competition in the dust.
Mark DeRosa's team needed a seven-run ninth inning to provide ample breathing room against Brazil and Great Britain carried a 1-0 lead into the fifth inning before the American lineup woke up to throw some crooked numbers on the scoreboard. That Team USA is scoring 12 runs per contest at this early stage is not a surprise based on a formidable and deep lineup. How they are doing it, however, might be raising some eyebrows.
