Who on earth would have thunk it? The USA team took a beating from Canada, losing 8-6, and the came actually wasn’t that close. The USA team scored all of its runs in one inning, four of them coming on a Jason Varitek grand slam. Canada came out and pummeled the US pitching, sending Dontrelle Willis and Al Leiter to the showers. It took Huston Street to stop the bleeding and put up the first scoreless inning to give the US squad a chance to get back into the game. The US team came within a whisker of winning in the 8th when Chase Utley faced Phillies teammate Scott Mathieson with two men on and launched a rocket to dead center which fell a few feet short of winning the game. The loss gives Canada an automatic next round invite and puts the US and Mexico both a 1-2. Mexico plays Canada today and the US can lick its wounds one full day before playing South Africa on Friday in a must annihilate game. If Mexico beats Canada, all sorts of odd tiebreaker rules go into effect. Stay tuned.