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Overview
- Eugenio Suárez doubled in the ninth to score Javier Sanoja, who entered as a pinch-runner after a Luis Arráez walk and stole second.
- Daniel Palencia closed with a spotless ninth, finishing the game with a strikeout for the save.
- Early runs came on Maikel García’s sacrifice fly in the third and Wilyer Abreu’s 414-foot homer in the fifth off rookie Nolan McLean.
- Bryce Harper pulled the United States level in the eighth with a two-run shot off Andrés Machado.
- Eduardo Rodríguez set the tone for a staff that muted U.S. bats as a pro-Venezuela crowd packed loanDepot Park, and García was named tournament MVP with the win clinching a 2028 Olympic berth.