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Verlander uses wrong flag in tweet celebrating USA win

Jasen Vinlove / USA TODAY Sports

Justin Verlander got the wrong red, white, and blue.

In an attempt to show his support for fellow American right-hander Marcus Stroman, who lost a no-hitter in the seventh inning of the World Baseball Classic final against Puerto Rico, Verlander tried to insert a U.S. flag in his tweet, but missed the mark slightly:

For the geographically unaware, that isn't a bite-sized form of Old Glory, but actually the flag of Liberia, a country located nearly halfway across the world, in western Africa.

Verlander quickly rectified his embarrassing typo ...

... before saying he has no problem with the previous country:

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