Rolling report: Venezuela and the United States meet in the World Baseball Classic final at Miami’s LoanDepot Park. Follow all the action with David Lengel
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Here they come
In the moodily lit Loan Depot park, here the two teams are walking in with their flags, down the foul lines, towards home plate. Aaron Judge is holding the flag for the US, and Luis Arraez for Venezuela. Considering everything that went down this January, it has quite a serious and tense feel to it.
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