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The Kansas City Royals allowed their young slugger, Vinnie Pasquantino, to head to the World Baseball Classic this spring to represent Team Italy in their pursuit of the WBC title.<\/p>\n
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And Pasquantino could not have gotten off to a worse start, on the personal side of things. Through three games, Team Italy was 3-0, but Pasquantino was 0 for 12 at the plate. He hadn’t found his swing, and it didn’t seem like he was seeing the ball well.<\/p>\n
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Still, Pasquantino was pretty juiced up after Team Italy pulled off the historic upset over Aaron Judge, Bryce Harper, and Team USA on Tuesday night. Team Italy won the game 8 to 6. Pasquantino could be heard shouting, “Where’s the f**king wine?!”<\/a> following the historic upset.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But the upset over Team USA wasn’t enough history for Pasquantino. He opted to make more history with a huge game at the dish on Wednesday night against Team Mexico.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the top of the second inning, Pasquantino opened the scoring for Team Italy by crushing a pitch from Mexico’s starter Javier Assad into the front row in right field for a solo home run.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vinnie Pasquantino puts Italy on the board first \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 #WorldBaseballClassic<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/757edPhdOk<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) March 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n <\/p>\n This swing brought Pasquantino out of his drought. Sometimes for a player in a slump, it only takes one swing to break out of it. After that, sluggers like Pasquantino can get rolling very quickly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pasquantino struck out in the fourth inning, but came back up to lead off the sixth inning. Again, Pasquantino turned on a pitch for a deep drive into right field for his second home run of the game. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n VINNIE PASQUANTINO AGAIN! \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 pic.twitter.com\/o5vKDzlRak<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n <\/p>\n The Royals slugger joined a short list of players to homer twice in one game in the WBC’s 20-year history. But the Royals first baseman seemingly didn’t enjoy being tied for the record for the most home runs in a single game in WBC history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Pasquantino’s next at-bat to lead off the eighth inning, he worked a seven pitch at bat before slugging a 3-2 pitch over the right field wall for his third home run of the game.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A THREE-HOMER GAME FOR VINNIE PASQUANTINO \ud83e\udd0c\ud83e\udd0c\ud83e\udd0c pic.twitter.com\/lIS854ULAA<\/a><\/p>\nVinnie Pasquantino makes history with 3 home run game<\/h2>\n
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