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By Tyler Erzberger
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In the fifth inning of the World Baseball Classic game between the United States of America and Brazil, everything was normal on the Fox Sports broadcast.
The commentators were doing their commentating thing. Ken Rosenthal was doing his interviewing thing. Team USA was hitting long balls. Brazil was playing the scrappy underdog.
It was all good.
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But then, during a 1-1 count with one out, the broadcast suddenly went to commercial.
Without warning, the broadcast played an ad during the inning and at-bat, with the game returning to a strikeout replay that the fans missed from home.
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Fans online were not pleased with the random commercial thrown in their faces, complaining about the Fox WBC broadcast.
While many were upset at the random cut-in, it prompted others on Reddit, X, and other social media platforms to discuss the overall package of Fox's WBC broadcast.
Various fans asked whether the broadcast was from Fox itself or from another company's feed, even though they're playing at Daikin Park, the home of the Houston Astros.
"Ok, that had to be one of the worst mid game interviews of all time," posted a Texas Rangers fan on Reddit discussing the game.
"Nice commercial, Fox," a Dodgers fan chimed in about the random commercial cutting into the at-bat.
Like the baseball players and teams themselves, spring is about getting into the flow of the new campaign, and it's no different for Fox and its broadcast team.
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