Northern Ireland continued to frustrate in front of an increasingly buoyant home crowd, who were only too pleased when Chiesa fired wide after showing some quick feet in the box to get away from Jonny Evans. They are led by last year's Most Valuable Player first baseman Freddie Freeman, outfielder Eddie Rosario and starting pitchers Charlie Morton and Max Fried. The British No 1 sits 11th in the race to qualify for the eight-man season-ending tournament in Turin and needs to make up 140 points on Italian Jannik Sinner. secured the same fate by drawing with Belgium in Cardiff on Tuesday.