Canada Upsets Team USA
So the World Baseball Classic--the "World Cup" of Baseball, if you will--is underway and in 1st round-robin tournament, Team USA lost against Canada. The US invented baseball!
It was a really good game, though. Canada was hitting aggressively early in the game. USA made a few mistakes defensively, but there were no official errors in the game. The mistakes kept building up and by the fifth inning, Canada was winning 8 to zero. USA came back with six runs later, but that was it.
Anyway, this is the first year that they're doing this kind of world tournament and a lot of people were unsure how this would work out or if it was going to be popular enough. But I was falling for the hype. I was rooting for players I usually wouldn't root for, like Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Hopefully, Team USA can come back and make it to Round 2. Round 2 will start this upcoming Sunday. Korea and Japan will play against the top 2 teams from Pool B (which USA is in) at Angels Stadium.
It was a really good game, though. Canada was hitting aggressively early in the game. USA made a few mistakes defensively, but there were no official errors in the game. The mistakes kept building up and by the fifth inning, Canada was winning 8 to zero. USA came back with six runs later, but that was it.
Anyway, this is the first year that they're doing this kind of world tournament and a lot of people were unsure how this would work out or if it was going to be popular enough. But I was falling for the hype. I was rooting for players I usually wouldn't root for, like Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Hopefully, Team USA can come back and make it to Round 2. Round 2 will start this upcoming Sunday. Korea and Japan will play against the top 2 teams from Pool B (which USA is in) at Angels Stadium.
2 Comments:
Do they use American rules?
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Ron, at 3/09/2006 10:40 AM
Yep, they use American rules in regards to the basics (3 strikes, you're out...nothing crazy). I think all the countries use standard baseball rules or "American" rules.
However, for this particular tournament, there's some alterations to protect the health of the players because it's basically pre-season and owners don't want their star players getting hurt. Pitchers have a maximum pitch count and there's "blow-out" rule. If a team leads by 10 after the fifth inning, the game is over (or something like that).
I blame the US's lost on the fact that many major league players are opting out of the tournament because they don't want to get hurt. Getting hurt is pretty easy, but random in baseball. You can pull a hamstring sprinting down the base line at any moment and be out for a month.
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David, at 3/09/2006 12:13 PM
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