WBC 3/10

[gotbeer]

Yup this ones done. Good game guys!

 

 

Regardless of the score.  This was a great showing by Canada.  In the end, the US depth really played a factor.  

 

But really, one hit in the eighth could have changed the outcome of the game.  

[gotbeer]

Game over.  US 9-4.  Off to round 2.

[2002_halos_II]

So the fiesty Canadians go home?

[gotbeer]

Italy, US, Dominican, Puerto Rico to face off in double elimination.  Yikes.  

[gotbeer]

And also don't forget.  Cuba vs Netherlands 3 AM tonight.  Winner faces Japan for Round 2 championship and spot in Championships.

[CanadianHalo]

Regardless of the score. This was a great showing by Canada. In the end, the US depth really played a factor.

But really, one hit in the eighth could have changed the outcome of the game.

Yeah i agree, it was nice to see Canada come out and compete. Good luck in the 2nd round

[Rochambeau]

Dear international sports fans...

Whatever that damn horn is you blow ALL DAMN GAME... It sucks, stop it!

[Brent Maguire]

Fun finish to that game to say the least. Jones' hit was awesome!

[YouthofToday]

Everytime Torre orders a sacrifice bunt a meteor changes course and heads directly for Earth. It's just science.

[Redondo]

Watched part of the PR and Dominican game on ESPN yesterday. Broadcast in Spanish I did understand a little and the announcers were fun to listen too. Good game.

 

Dominican won 4-2 with Rodney getting the save. And yes he had his hat on crooked.

[Rochambeau]

Everytime Torre orders a sacrifice bunt a meteor changes course and heads directly for Earth. It's just science.

21 years ago, he ordered a bunt and one landed in Millville, NJ... Nearly struck a young, pregnant girl named Debbie

[tomsred]

21 years ago, he ordered a bunt and one landed in Millville, NJ... Nearly struck a young, pregnant girl named Debbie

That's because she could move so fast, even overweight.

[gotbeer]

Netherlands beats Cuba at WBC

 

 

Loek Van Mil, the fourth Dutch pitcher, got the win with a two-hit ninth.

[CompassRosy]

Regardless of the score.  This was a great showing by Canada.  In the end, the US depth really played a factor.  

 

But really, one hit in the eighth could have changed the outcome of the game.  

 

Congrats to Michael Saunders ... 

http://seattletimes.com/html/larrystone/2020531697_stone11.html

 

Michael Saunders, the disappointment still fresh, sat at a table flanked by the MVP trophy that simply couldn't be denied him, even in defeat.

"I think we showed the world that Canada is here to stay," he said.

And, without a doubt, Saunders showed the world — or at least that portion of it that cares about baseball — that he is not only one of Canada's elite players, but perhaps poised to break out as one of the game's elite, regardless of nationality.

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Team Canada manager Ernie Whitt noted that Saunders' emerging talents, evident in last year's 19-homer, 21-stolen base breakout season with the Mariners, are obscured by playing in what he seems to regard as a baseball ghost town.

"Playing in Seattle, they just don't have the media coverage," Whitt said. "But he's just a tremendous up-and-coming outfielder that's going to be a superstar."

All that flattery was not foremost on Saunders' mind, however. He was truly bumming over having to part ways with his weeklong teammates.

"It's going to be tough to leave these guys," he said. "Canadians and baseball, I always describe it as a tight fraternity. We may go our separate ways for a few years, but when we come back it's like we haven't skipped a beat.