Turner ties Classic record with 5th home run
In the event that there was one arrangement we saw again and again in the 2023 World Baseball Exemplary, it was Trea Turner orbiting the bases.
Turner homered once more for Group USA in the WBC title game on Tuesday night against Japan. He associated in the second inning for his fifth grand slam of the competition, which tied the record for a solitary Work of art. Turner matched Seung Yuop Lee's five grand slams for Korea in the debut 2006 WBC.
In any case, it wasn't enough as Group USA lost, 3-2, and undefeated Japan brought home its third WBC championship.
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The homer likewise gave Turner 11 RBIs in this WBC, third all-time behind the 13 that Masataka Yoshida of Japan had for this present year and the 12 that the Netherlands' Wladimir Balentien added up to in 2017.
Turner's power flood was one of the vital impetuses for Group USA - - even as he hit basically at the lower part of the USA request. His most recent grand slam got the U.S. out to a mid 1-0 lead against Japan.
Turner's subsequent homer of the WBC was a go on huge homerun against Venezuela in the quarterfinals, turning a 7-5 shortfall in the eighth inning into a 9-7 triumph.
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He likewise homered in a 12-1 triumph over Canada in USA's third round of pool play, and he squashed two homers in USA's persuading 14-2 elimination round triumph over Cuba.
Turner's most memorable homer in that game voyaged 428 feet into the grandstands at loanDepot park. Four innings later, his subsequent grand slam of the game drove in three runs and blew the game open for Group USA.
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