Tag: World Baseball Classic 2023

For the fourth straight game, Drew Spencer kept faith with the same starting nine, albeit with a slight adjustment to the order, dropping hitless Matt Koperniak down to sixth. The difference between the two starters was extraordinary. GB’s Joseph King

Well… what can we say about yesterday? Those of us that were here can now say, “I was there when GB shocked the world and won their first game in the World Baseball Classic!” And you know what, if we

The Canada defeat was history. All attention was on Colombia, and GB manager Drew Spencer stuck by his pre-tournament assessment and kept the lineup unchanged. It would have been easy to tinker with the spluttering infield, and perhaps if the

I had branded this holiday as “the trip of a lifetime”, sometimes that can be a tough billing to live up to – but so far, every expectation that I’ve had has been exceeded. Honestly, what a rush this whole

Despite the narrative that “all of the games are winnable”, everyone knew that the meeting against Canada was, on paper, the most winnable. Manager Drew Spencer kept faith with the lineup that did him proud against the USA, and he

When Drew Spencer, Great Britain’s dynamic manager and mastermind of qualification to GB’s first ever appearance in the World Baseball Classic, sat down to develop a gameplan, it probably didn’t include the dream scenario of a first-inning bomb off Adam