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By Curt Bishop
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The World Baseball Classic has come to an end. Team USA fell just short in the championship game against Venezuela after eliminating Team Canada and the Dominican Republic.
After comments from manager Mark DeRosa raised some eyebrows, there has been a narrative that Team USA was not fully focused on winning the WBC. Some of DeRosa's managerial decisions also created a little confusion, which also fed into the narrative that Team USA wasn't all in on bringing home a WBC title.
However, San Francisco Giants' ace Logan Webb, who was a part of Team USA's starting rotation, responded to the criticism of DeRosa and Team USA and pushed back on the narrative.
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"I feel like there's a narrative that we didn't care," Webb said, as quoted by FOX Sports. "That's complete (expletive)."
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Webb clearly did not take kindly to the narrative that Team USA wasn't trying hard enough. Webb himself allowed just one earned run and five hits over 8 2/3 innings pitched and struck out 11 batters in the process.
Team USA has made it to the championship game in each of the last three tournaments. They won a title in 2017 but have now lost back-to-back championship games, falling to Team Japan in 2023 and Venezuela this year.
But it's clear that Webb is not buying into the narrative that Team USA didn't care, and a strong case can be made that it is a false narrative, as evidenced by the team making it as far as they did.
Webb certainly pitched well in the tournament and gave Team USA a chance to come away with their second title, but the court of public opinion appears to have made its verdict on whether the Americans gave their full effort.
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