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Brazil blanks Pakistan to open WBC qualifier
- Updated: September 22, 2016
Brazil’s road back to the World Baseball Classic began as it was expected to: with a win over Pakistan in the opening game of the WBC qualifiers in Brooklyn on Thursday.
Opening pool play at MCU Park on Coney Island, the home of the Mets Class A affiliate Brooklyn Cyclones, the favored Brazilian team rolled to a shortened seven-inning 10-0 win over Pakistan, which was playing its first WBC game.
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Whichever team wins this weekend’s qualifier — Brazil, Pakistan, Israel or Great Britain — earns the final spot in the 16-country field for the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Brazil is looking to advance out of the qualifying rounds for a second straight tournament, after doing so in 2013.
On Thursday, …
