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United States vs. Italy
Saturday, March 9, 2013

There's Wright at the end of the tunnel for US

United States 6, Italy 2

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Wright's grand slam

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
USA
0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 6 11 0
ITA
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 0
W:
Vogelsong (1-0)
L:
Grifantini (0-1)
SV:
Detwiler (1)

In a must win, David Wright ignited the U.S. past Italy with a go-ahead fifth-inning slam, setting up Sunday's key Pool D date vs. Canada to determine which team will advance to the second round. Despite losing, Italy will head to Miami because of Mexico's loss to Canada.