World Baseball Classic news, live updates: Mexico to face U.S. after routing Brazil; Australia takes on South Korea

Australia finally got its first run on a lead-off homer in the bottom of the fifth inning, but still has to dig out of a big hole.

Bo Gyeong Moon, who has been one of the top hitters in the WBC, has had a run-scoring double and single to go along with his earlier two-run homer to give South Korea a commanding lead. He drove in all but one of South Korea’s first five runs and needs only a triple to complete the cycle.

South Korea added another run on a two-out single and now leads 6-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning.

Bo Gyeong Moon stakes South Korea to an early 2-0 lead with a two-run homer in the top of the second inning.

It is Moon’s second homer of the WBC.

After a scoreless first inning, Australia will claim the second quarterfinal berth from Pool C with a victory over South Korea.

Japan haa already secured a spot in the quarterfinals. If South Korea wins, there will be a three-way tie for the second quarterfinal berth with South Korea, Australia and Chinese Taipei each at 2-2 (and 1-1 against the other tied teams).

Here’s the rules for the three-team tiebreaker:

Here’s Monday’s schedule of games and where to watch:

6 a.m.: Australia vs. South Korea (FS1) 
Noon: Israel vs. Dominican Republic (FS1) 
Noon: Panama vs. Colombia (FS2)  
1 p.m.: Great Britain vs. Brazil (Tubi)
7 p.m.: Puerto Rico vs. Cuba (FS1)  
7 p.m.: Nicaragua vs. Venezuela (FS2)
8 p.m.: U.S. vs. Mexico (Fox)

Canada’s rally came up short.

Canada, after falling into a two-run hole on Sunday night in Puerto Rico, cut their game with Panama back to a single run after a huge RBI double from Owen Caissie in the eighth inning.

But that was as close to catching the Panamanians as the Canadians got. Panama, after another rain delay hit in the ninth inning, held on to grab a 4-3 win to end the night.

That marked its first win so far in group play, and dropped Canada to 1-1.

Now there’s another rain delay with two outs in the top of the ninth between Canada and Panama in San Juan.

Panama has a 4-3 lead and is batting with no men on. Canada’s due up in the bottom of the inning, trailing by one, for now — if they get back to playing baseball tonight.

And that’ll do it for Mexico. Julian Ornelas just ended their game with Brazil with a two-run shot in the sixth inning. That lifted them to the 16-0 blowout win.

Israel handed Nicaragua a 5-0 defeat on Sunday, sending Nicaragua to 0-3 in pool play and eliminating it from the knockout round.

With the win, Israel picks up its first win of the event to improve to 1-1.

Zach Levenson helped blow the game open in the bottom of the fifth inning. The St. Louis Cardinals prospect took the plate with the bases loaded and one out. He delivered a line drive to right field to plate two runs and double Israel’s lead to 4-0.

Israel’s pitching, meanwhile, limited Nicaragua to two hits.

Mexico just had a no-hitter broken up, but it’s not going to have any issues getting past Brazil tonight. Mexico — after more than three hitless innings rom Taijuan Walker, is up 11-0 on Brazil now in the fifth inning in Houston.

Italy faced pressure from Great Britain after entering the ninth inning with a 7-4 lead.

Great Britain loaded the bases with a single and two walks, sending catcher Harry Ford to the plate as the go-ahead run with two outs. Ford made good contact on a Greg Weissert breaking ball with a line drive to left field.

But Dante Nori was there to make the catch for the final out of the game to secure Italy’s 7-4 win.

After taking a 4-1 lead in the first inning, Cuba added three runs in the seventh. Yiddi Cappe hit a 2-run triple aided by a misplay in left field by Harold Ramírez.

Cuba improved to 2-0 in Pool A and will face Puerto Rico on Monday night.

Great Britain is on the verge of going 0-3 in pool play. Italy boosted its lead to 5-2 in the fourth inning with an RBI single from Andrew Fischer, a run-scoring double by Miles Mastrobuoni and Dante Nori driving in a run with a single.

In the fifth, Sam Antonacci drove in another run with a triple. He then scored on a throwing error by Jazz Chisholm Jr.

Mercy! Juan Soto’s two-run homer gives the Dominican Republic a 12-1 walkoff win over the Netherlands in seven innings.

Juan Carlos Sulbaran retired Erik González and Junior Lake to begin the bottom of the seventh. Then he walked Ketel Marte after getting ahead on him 0-2.

Soto needed only one pitch to finish the game, as Sulbaran hung a slider in the middle of the strike zone. With that blast, the DR improves to 2-0 in Pool D play.

Looking for its first win in Pool B play, Great Britain took a 2-0 lead with Nate Eaton and Jazz Chisholm Jr. each scoring on wild pitches from Dylan DeLucia.

But Italy tied the game in the third on back-to-back homers from Andrew Fischer and J.J. D’Orazio off pitcher Owen Wild.

The Dominican Republic added six runs to their lead in the sixth inning, beginning with a 3-run home run from Junior Caminero.

The blast was Caminero’s second of the World Baseball Classic.

Julio Rodriguez then drew a walk and Austin Wells followed up with a 2-run shot.

Ketel Marte added one more run with a sacrifice fly to give the DR a 10-1 lead.

It’s been the Vladimir Guerrero Jr. show in Miami so far. After driving in the Dominican Republic’s first run, he followed up with a 2-run homer in the third for a 4-1 lead.

Cuba took a 4-1 lead over Colombia in the first inning with Ariel Martinez and Erisbel Arruebarrena hitting home runs.

Martinez’s homer was a 3-run shot. coming after Colombia starter Luis Patiño walked Roel Santos and hit Yoan Moncada with a pitch to open the bottom of the first.

After falling behind 2-0 in the top of the first inning, the Netherlands got the response it needed with a home run from Didi Gregorius.

The Dominican Republic leads 2-1 going into the second inning.

The Dominican Republic got off to a fast start against Netherlands starter Arij Franzen.

Fernando Tatis Jr. and Ketel Marte each drew walks to open the first inning. Franzen briefly recovered by striking out Juan Soto. He then worked Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to a 3 balls, 2 strikes count before the slugger slapped a changeup into left field to drive in Tatis.

The DR took a 2-0 lead when Xander Bogaerts committed a throwing error on Manny Machado’s grounder to shortstop.

Following Rixon Wingrove’s home run that cut Japan’s lead to one run, Taisei Ota gets Robbie Perkins to ground out to third base and finish off a 4-3 win.

Masataka Yoshida gave Japan the lead with a 2-run homer in the seventh, and two more runs came in the eighth on a Teruaki Sato pinch-hit RBI double and Seiya Suzuki bases-loaded walk.

Chihiro Sumida gets the win for Japan with three scoreless innings of relief and Jon Kennedy takes the loss for Australia.

Japan had already advanced out of Pool C to the knockout round. Australia wil need to beat Korea on Monday to move on.