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Puerto Rico's De Leon, bullpen post perfect game in WBC mercy-rule win

Posted on AllSides March 13th, 2023
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MIAMI -- Four pitchers for Team Puerto Rico combined on a perfect game against Israel in the pool-play round of the World Baseball Classic on Monday night, retiring all 24 hitters in a mercy-rule-shortened 10-0 victory. After 5.2 sparkling innings by starting Jose De Leon, reliever Yacksel Rios recorded a strikeout and manager Yadier Molina turned to closer Edwin Diaz to lock down the top of the seventh inning with the score 9-0. When Puerto Rico didn't score in the bottom of the seventh, Duane Underwood Jr. needed only 10...

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