Canada star Freddie Freeman out of Wednesday’s WBC game vs. Mexico
Team Canada star Freddie Freeman will miss his workforce’s must-win sport in opposition to Mexico on Wednesday.
Freeman left Tuesday’s World Baseball Classic sport in opposition to Colombia within the backside of the fourth inning as a result of a lower-body harm. After seeing docs on Tuesday afternoon, Team Canada took the choice to maintain Freeman out of the lineup for his or her remaining Pool C sport.
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Sportsnet’s Shi David reported that WBC guidelines would stop Canada from changing Freeman with one other participant beneath the subsequent spherical.
“Right now he had tightness in his hammy. And of course for precautionary reasons we took him out of the game right away,” supervisor Ernie Whitt stated. “He felt something on one of his swings, his second at-bat. So again we would do that to anyone if there’s discomfort or something like that, we’re going to take them out.”
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With Freeman out Tuesday, Denzel Clarke took over centre discipline and the second spot within the batting order, whereas Jared Young moved from left discipline to first base and Jacob Robson shifted from centre discipline to left discipline.
Canada, which is 2-1 after three Pool C video games on the WBC, defeated Colombia 5-0 Tuesday and can look to e-book a spot within the quarterfinals with a win versus Mexico Wednesday.
Canada led Colombia 1-0 on the time of Freeman’s exit.
Freeman, 33, is a six-time all-star, a National League MVP and a World Series winner who presently performs for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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