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SCORIGAMI: United States 9, Venezuela 7 is the first 9-7 game in World Baseball Classic history

Final · March 18, 2023

World Baseball Classic got a brand-new final score on March 18, 2023. United States beat Venezuela 9-7, and in every World Baseball Classic game since 2006, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 9-7 sits among nearby World Baseball Classic scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 22-2, South Korea over China on March 13, 2023, 5 days earlier. This is World Baseball Classic's 11th new final score of the 2023 season, and the grid now holds 40.4 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 10-7 had still never happened and 9-8 had still never happened. It sits in the busy heart of the grid, proof that even an ordinary-looking score can go a league's whole history without happening.

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