This may have been the most anticipated game of the first round of the WBC as it matched two top powers. Of course, in the end neither of these teams would make it to the championship round, but this game didn't really disappoint.
Neither Bartolo Colon (DR) or Johan Santana (Ven) were able to get deep into the game (nor were they expected to), but Colon got the better of it with 3 shutout innings versus Santana's two runs allowed in 3 1/3. Adrian Beltre's three-run homer in the fifth off Carlos Zambrano seemed to put the DR in charge at 6-1, but Venezuela got four runs over the next three frames, highlighted by Miguel Cabrera and Edgardo Alfonzo circuit clouts.
In the top of the ninth, though, both David Ortiz and Beltre hit their second homers of the game, each two-run shots, to put Venezuela away.
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