Team Italy pitcher Dylan DeLucia threw four shutout innings in the World Baseball Classic quarterfinal game against Puerto Rico – purportedly the first baseball game to be broadcast on national Italian television.
When he was done, the prospect in the Cleveland Guardians system who hails from Florida had an eye-opening moment when he looked at his phone.
“So, I opened my phone after the game to like 60 DMs and it was in words I didn’t know how to say,” Delucia said before the semifinal of the messages he received from Italian fans appreciating his performance. “Definitely going to have to do some Google Translate for sure. But it was awesome, really, like just to see that side of everything.”
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