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Team Italy and Team Venezuela will each use several Kansas City Royals players on Monday.
Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino was so excited after helping Team Italy beat Team Puerto Rico in Saturday's World Baseball Classic (WBC) quarterfinal that he forgot who else was left in the tournament. The 28-year-old incorrectly excluded Team Venezuela when listing the remaining squads, via MLB On Fox. "I don't know how many people would've picked the Dominican Republic, Japan, the United States and Italy in the final four, but we're here now...
this is incredible, man," he said. Team Japan had still yet to play Venezuela in Saturday night's quarterfinal, but Pasquantino apologized on social media before the first pitch. "Tried to get this fixed after the fact but I’m sorry I excluded Venezuela," he said.
"Didn’t mean to [do] that. Looking forward to watching that game we all know it should be fireworks. My bad Team Venezuela.
I still love you Maikel [Garcia], Sal [Salvador Perez], Luinder [Avila], and [Angel] Zerpa. " Tried to get this fixed after the fact but I’m sorry I excluded Venezuela. Didn’t mean to that.