It was raucous. It was exhilarating. It was breathtaking.
It was sheer bedlam.
When the smoke cleared Saturday evening, the USA was dancing off the field, 9-7 winners over Venezuela, with a sellout crowd of 35,792 still trying to wrap their minds around what they just witnessed.
USA will now play Cuba on Sunday night (7ET, FOX) in the WBC semifinals, sending Team Venezuela home.
“We were the road team,’’ USA manager Mark DeRosa said. “We knew it would be crazy.’’
It lived up to the hype, and, oh, so, so much more.
