Team USA defeated by Venezuela in finals of World Baseball Classic Tuesday night by a score of 3-2

Team USA was defeated by Venezuela in the finals of the World Baseball Classic Tuesday night by a score of 3-2. 

Eugenio Suarez hit a clutch double in the ninth inning to give Venezuela the win over Team USA in the finals of the World Baseball Classic Tuesday night by a score of 3-2. 

Bryce Harper had tied the game up in the bottom of the eighth with a two-run homer.

Wilyer Abreu had a solo home run for Venezuela. 

This was the sixth time the World Baseball Classic, which started in 2006, has taken place. Japan has won it three times, Dominican Republic once, the U.S. has won it once and now Venezuela has won it for the first time. 

It started with 16 teams in pool play earlier this month, followed by quarter-finals games, semi-final games and Tuesday night’s championship game in Miami.

On January 3 of this year, the U.S. military carried out Operation Absolute Resolve, in which they extracted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, after decades of hostile relations between the two countries.