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Chisholm leads Britain past Brazil in last WBC game for both teams

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Ian Lewis Jr. homered with two RBIs and Jazz Chisholm Jr. added two hits with three RBIs to lead Great Britain (1-3) to an 8-1 victory that ended the tournament for a pair of teams that were eliminated from advancing from Group B on Sunday.

Brazil (0-4) was outscored 47-6 and outhit 46-14.

Gabriel Carmo hit a go-ahead double in the fifth for Brazil, which lost to Mexico 16-0 a day earlier. Lewis homered off Tiago Da Silva on the first pitch of the bottom half, Harry Ford hit an RBI single and Chisholm added a run-scoring groundout.

Lewis had an RBI groundout in the sixth, Matt Koperniak hit a run-scoring single in the seventh off 17-year-old Joseph Contreras — a son of former major league pitcher José Contreras — and Chisholm added a two-run single in the eighth.

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