World Baseball Classic: What you need to know for Team USA vs. Canada in the quarterfinals

How did these teams fare in pool play? Not well enough to avoid sweating things out on the final day. Team USA’s journey through the first phase has been dissected repeatedly. The Americans were dominant against Brazil and Great Britain, won what should’ve been a pool-deciding game over Mexico, then got pounced on by Italy. The loss left them in a situation in which Italy-Mexico...