You were right, MOU, about the baseball game.
An excerpt from Associated Press:
The Mexican team was a heavy underdog in this quarterfinal game, but got a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning from Luis A. Garcia off Brian Bruney.
Bruney had 26 saves in the Arizona Diamondbacks' minor league system this season.
The United States threatened in the bottom of the ninth when Grady Sizemore and former major leaguer Ernie Young led off with singles.
With runners on second and third with one out, reliever Isidro Marquez got Justin Leone to ground back to the mound and retired Gerald Laird on a popup to end it.
Former New York Mets pitcher Rigo Beltran held the Americans to three hits in seven innings. Leone, of the Seattle system, homered in the fourth for the U.S. run.
Ray Martinez tied it in the fifth with a homer off Cleveland prospect Jason Stanford. The Americans had outscored their opponents 21-0
The U.S. roster also included Atlanta rookie pitcher Horacio Ramirez and former big leaguers Mike Lamb and Todd Williams.
``We lost a game. I don't think it's a setback for U.S. baseball,'' said Sandy Alderson, an executive vice president in the commissioner's office and the top American official with the team.
``I think it's a validation of the internationalization of the game. As we know, anything can happen in a game or a short series of games,'' he said.