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Defending champion United States romped over Cuba 14-2 on Sunday night to reach its second straight World Baseball Classic final.
Trea Turner homered twice to give him a tournament-leading four, including a three-run drive to propel the US to a chance to defend its crown.
Paul Goldschmidt and Cedric Mullins also homered for the Americans, who scored in seven of eight innings - putting up crooked numbers in five of them. Turner and Goldschmidt had four RBIs each.
The US plays Japan or Mexico in Tuesday night´s championship, trying to join the Samurai Warriors as the only nations to win the title twice.
Turner, hitting No. 9 in the batting order, has a tournament-leading 10 RBIs. He followed his go-ahead, eighth-inning grand slam a night earlier against Venezuela with a solo homer in the second inning off Roenis Elias (0-1) and a three-run drive in the sixth against Elian Leyva.
Defending WBC champion United States romped over Cuba 14-2 on Sunday night
Trea Turner homered twice to give him a tournament-leading four during the victory
Paul Goldschmidt also homered for the Americans, who scored in seven of eight innings
Cuba went ahead when its first four batters reached off Adam Wainwright (2-0) without getting a ball out of the infield. The 41-year-old right-hander recovered to strand the bases loaded, and the American offense pummeled Cuban pitchers for 14 hits, including eight for extra bases. The U.S. was gifted seven walks.
Goldschmidt hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the first on a 112 mph rocket high over the left-field wall. He added a two-run single in the fifth.
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