Skubal allows leadoff homer, throws 41 pitches in WBC start

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Great Britain's Nate Eaton greeted Team USA's Tarik Skubal with a home run to lead off the game Saturday night, as the defending American League Cy Young Award winner made his only start of the World Baseball Classic in Houston.

Eaton, 29, an infielder and outfielder for the Boston Red Sox who had just one home run and four RBIs last season, took the game's first pitch to deep left-center field to give Britain a 1-0 lead before Skubal retired Jazz Chisholm Jr., Harry Ford and B.J. Murray to end the inning. Skubal threw 12 of his allotted 55 pitches for the start in that frame, nine of which were…