Bell: Oblique injuries strike Stephania Bell explains the physiology of the oblique injury, which was very much in the news this past weekend. Arangure: Cuba likely better than team The Cuban team, led by young talent and a potent lineup, might be even better than the version that advanced to the WBC final. According to Keith Law, the Japanese star would be a No. Arangure: Netherlands' prayers answered The Netherlands shocked the baseball world by knocking the Dominican Republic out of the World Baseball Classic.
The Dominicans certainly don't believe it actually happened. Nelson: Ziegler beats injuries, odds Brad Ziegler changed his delivery and overcame a pair of skull fractures to become one of the best relievers in baseball a year ago. Arangure: Puerto Rico making a point Puerto Rico is making a case to be mentioned among the elite teams in this installment of the World Baseball Classic.
Arangure: Dominican Republic gets serious The Dominican Republic avoided the embarrassment of a quick exit at the World Baseball Classic by taking out its frustrations on Panama. Arangure: Williams trades guitar for bat, glove Four-time World Series champ Bernie Williams, at 40 years old, has put down his guitar and picked up his glove to play for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic.
Arangure: Former stars seeking jobs Pedro Martinez is one of several former stars who find themselves in a tryout of sorts while at the Puerto Rico bracket of the World Baseball Classic. The other -- mandatory military service -- could cost him his career. Neel: Players catching WBC fever Though several prominent players have withdrawn from the World Baseball Classic for a variety of reasons, the tournament still resonates as a marquee experience.
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TH 0. Hidden categories: Pages with match info Pages with dead links Pages with hard coded colors. Contact Us Send an email Chat with us Contact. This page was last edited on 3 April , at Licenses for other media varies. WeMade FOX. World Elite. Human Orc 9. Undead 4. Night Elf 9. August 28, - CEST. Aug 28, - UTC. CF Eduardo Arredondo singled as well. SS Oscar Robles singled to make it Cota then hit his third home run of the day, tying the Baseball World Cup record, for a lead.
One out later, DH Edgar Quintero homered to cap the scoring. Diaz left after six; Hugo Castellanos , Arturo Lopez and Hector Navarro each tossed one shutout inning to complete the whitewash.
Nicaragua wasted no time to take the lead against Ernesto Pereira. With one out, 3B Jimy Gonzalez homered for a lead. Pereira contained Nicaragua for 3 innings but they came back alive in the 5th. Gonzalez then went deep again, making it Nicaragua kept padding their lead. In the 6th, Morales tripled and Holmann walked. In the bottom of the 7th, Croatia got their first World Cup run ever.
While Croatia lost their first World Cup appearance, they could take pride in not being shutout or having the game end early due to the mercy rule. Cuba burst ahead quickly. In the first, CF Leonys Martin led off with a walk. Cuba continued to pound former major leaguer Jose Santiago in the third, as Cepeda walked with one out and DH Alfredo Despaigne went yard, knocking out Santiago with 5 runs in under 3 innings.
In the 4th, a 3-run double by Despaigne against Angel Garcia keyed a 4-run inning. Cuba made it in the 6th when Gourriel homered off Nelvin Fuentes.
The game ended after seven due to the mercy rule. Despaigne finished with 5 RBI. Norge Luis Vera tossed 7 shutout innings, allowing only 3 hits against a team with six former major leaguers and three AAA prospects. From there, Nick Bucci and Kyung-eun Noh dueled evenly through 5. Canada responded in the 7th when Noh tired. DH Tim Smith led off with a single. C Chris Robinson bunted Smith over, then Loewen doubled him in. SS Jonathan Malo went down on strikes.
Canada then staged an impressive two-out run. CF Adam Stern singled in Loewen. Byung-oh Noh relieved. RF Rene Tosoni drew a four-pitch walk. Smith then hit a 3-run homer to make it , a 8-run inning. The USA started their title defense on a strong note over the first four innings, but wound up the day with an upset loss thanks to horrendous bullpen work. In the first, SS Trevor Plouffe walked. RF Josh Kroeger doubled in Smoak.
LF Jon Weber singled in Kroeger. In the 2nd, 2B Tug Hulett homered. CF Buck Coats doubled and Smoak hit a one-out home run to make ir Kroeger was hit by a pitch and doubled in by Tiffee. Venezuela got on the board in the 4th on a solo shot by 3B Michael Sandoval. The US answered with a home run by Smoak and led ; it would be their biggest lead as they were outscored the rest of the way. Brad Lincoln left after a strong start, giving up one run in five innings. In the 6th, B.
Rosenberg came in. In the 7th, Jason Childers took the mound and Venezuela took out the big bats. Rojo drew a walk. After a strikeout, Connell walked on four pitches. The wild Rosenberg plunked Sandoval to force in one run. RF Rene Reyes , the one Venezuelan with MLB experience, then deposited an offering into center field for a grand slam to tie the score.
Neither team did much in the 8th or 9th. In the 10th, under the much-criticized IBAF rules instituted in , each team began with two runners aboard. Connell began with a bunt against Ehren Wassermann , but catcher Jason Castro threw to third, failing to get the runner, loading the bags.
Sandoval struck out. Geno Espineli relieved and walked Reyes on five pitches to force in a run. Landaeta grounded in another and it was Venezuela.
Scoreless since the 4th, the US finally woke up with their backs to the wall. With one out, Smoak doubled in the two runners who started the inning on base to tie the game, but Venezuela escaped further damage by retiring Kroeger and Weber.
In the 11th, Nate Field struck out the first two batters on just six pitches, but walked Rojo on a full count. SS Dirimo Chavez , a veteran of the international stage, then hit a grand slam to left. Coming off their rout of the Czech Republic, Australia started strong but had to rally late to hold on to win. He scored on a single by DH Joel Naughton. After being shut down by David Welch for five innings, Taiwan came back in the sixth against reliever Brad Tippett.
RF Tsung-Chun Wu then did his job as cleanup man, hitting a 3-run homer to make it a one-run contest. Australia added some insurance in the bottom of the 6th on a double by LF Daniel Berg and a single by Beresford. Taiwan tied it in the 8th against Matthew Williams. Han Lin grounded the runner over, then Kuo-Min Lin socked a home run. Australia rallied in the bottom of the 8th.
Naughton singled with one out. An out later, Beresford went yard off Ching-Ming Wang for the game-winner. Adam Bright retired 3 of 4 batters in the 9th to end the game.
Beresford finished the day 4 for 5 with 2 runs, 3 RBI and the home run, compensating for his error. Coming off a rout of a MLB-laden club and facing a team that lost to Spain, Cuba faced an unexpectedly tough game, winning by "only" five.
South Africa scored first. In the fourth, C Ariel Pestano drew a one-out walk and was erased on a force. That finally knocked out Sawyer. A 2-run homer by Pestano later in the inning put the Cubans in front by a margin.
South Africa rallied in the 6th. Ngoepe doubled, Lindsay holding at third. LF Ashley Scott grounded in Ngoepe.
Cuba's lead was down to by the time he left, though. Neither team would score again. Nicaragua wasted no time in putting this one away. One out later, RF Danilo Sotelo homered to left for a lead.
Gonzalez then clubbed his 4th home run of the Cup, a grand slam to give Nicaragua a lead; Smith left with only 4 batters retired. Nicaragua was held silent by Aedan McQueary-Ennis from the 4th to the 6th, but Guido opened the 7th with a solo home run to make it , ending the game via the mercy rule. Their players with minor league experience were a combined 0 for 6. Swedish manager Karl Knutsson turned to a guy with the same initials, Norwegian native Kent Karlsson , in game two.
It started rough for Karlsson. SS Kyoung-min Hur opened with a walk and stole second with one out. From there, Karlsson and Seung-lak Son traded goose eggs from the 2nd through the 5th. In the 6th, Korea got back on the board. Choi singled and was bunted over. He stole third. C Hee-keun Lee was intentionally walked and took second on a passed ball. After a 4-pitch walk, Karlsson was replaced by Nick Soubiea. Sweden made it a 3-run game in the 7th when CF Peter Johannessen avenged his brother's defensive lapse with a solo home run.
Korea got one more in the 8th on a solo shot by CF Ho-sin Lee. Sweden got two men on in the 9th but failed to score.
Venezuela buried China in this contest. Chinese starter Shance Zou faced 6 hitters and retired none of them. LF Willie Vasquez singled. That was it for Zou. CF Jonathan Sivira greeted his replacement with a walk. Vasquez scored on a wild pitch for a lead. Chavez doubled in Rojo and Venezuela led after 1.
It was more of the same in the second. Sandoval reached on a dropped fly. Reyes walked. With one out, Vasquez singled in Sandoval.
Sivira hit a sacrifice fly. A wild pitch advanced both runners, whom Rojo then singled in. It was after two. China got two runs off Junior Guerra in the third, but it meant little. Venezuela scored only once in their half of the third, Vasquez singling in Reyes.
The scoring ended in the fifth when Sivira came home on a wild pitch and Chavez singled in Ruben Cabrera. The Czech Republic again got a moral victory in staving off the mercy rule, though their hitters were no match for former major leaguer Francisco Cordova. For two innings, Martin Schneider , the top Czech hitter in game one and a fine two-way threat in the Extraliga , battled Cordova evenly. The Czechs almost scored in the first. All of the game's scoring took place in the third through sixth innings.
RF Mario Valenzuela singled to make it An out later, 1B Sergio Contreras homered to center for a score. In the 5th, Cota singled with one out. Valenzuela singled as well, then DH Edgar Quintero had Mexico's second 3-run homer of the day, making it Jakub Toufar relieved to begin the sixth. With one out, Terrazas hit a 2-run homer to end the scoring. Japan had a much easier time in their second game against a European squad.
In the 3rd, Croatia took their first lead ever in a World Cup. DH Slobodan Gales got plunked. Japan tied the game in the 4th. After a bunt and grounder advanced him to third, SS Ken Kume doubled him home. They took the lead in the 5th. Marin Farkas relived and got Mori on a sacrifice bunt. PH Kenichi Yokoyama was intentionally walked to load the bases for Saeki. A wild pitch put Japan in front, Saeki then flew into a double play to end the threat. Japan increased their lead in the 6th.
LF Yoshinobu Kotegawa drew a one-out walk, then stole second. Kume walked as well. Chono drove them both in with a triple, then scored on an Ikebe sacrifice fly for a score.
Japan ended the game with the mercy rule with an explosive 7th. Yokoyama drew a one-out walk, then PH Go Yamaoka homered to make it Ikebe doubled in Kume to make it Sasaki flew out, then Mori singled in Kiyota to end the game. Puerto Rico got on the board first. In the third, 3B Jose Valentin singled. With one out, 1B Carlos Rivera singled him to third.
C Raul Casanova doubled both men in, knocking out Noguera. Manny Olivera relieved and walked Gotay. DH Alex Cintron hit into a force at second, but on the relay to first, 2B Paco Figueroa made a throwing error, letting Casanova score for a lead. In the bottom of the 4th, Spain cut the lead in half. LF Luis J. With two away, 3B William Domero went deep. Spain moved even closer in the sixth.
RF Daniel Martinez drew a 4-pitch walk to open the inning. C Dewis Navarro hit to third and a throwing error by Valentin made it Navarro stole second. After a scoreless 7th, Puerto Rico got insurance in the 8th.
Rivera doubled to left. Rhiner Cruz relieved and threw a wild pitch, but struck out the next two batters. Spain challenged in the 8th. With two outs, Navarro singled and Domero walked. Melvin Pizzaro relieved and threw a wild pitch, putting both men in scoring position, but he struck out PH Richard Montiel to end the threat. In the 9th, R. Rodriguez walked Emmanuel Febles with one out but got the next two batters as Puerto Rico escaped with a win. Canada scored in all but one inning, while holding the Netherlands Antilles to one hit in a one-sided affair.
In the second, DH Tim Smith walked and stole second. In the third, CF Adam Stern doubled. Martes recovered for a 5th.
Canada tacked on some insurance in the 6th. Smith doubled with one out and took third on a wild pitch. Frostad singled him in, then Loewen walked. Mario Mujica relieved Martes and walked Malo to load the bags. Stern hit a sacrifice fly to make it In the 7th, Canada completed the rout.
Tosoni opened with a single, then 3B Shawn Bowman singled. C Cole Armstrong hit into a force at second. Smith singled in Tosoni.
Mujica walked Frostad, then Loewen plated two with a single through the middle. PH Terrance Dayleg drew a walk. Stern singled in two more. Lawrie delivered a 3-run homer to give Canada 8 runs in the inning and a lead. In the third, CF Buck Coats drew a leadoff walk. SS Trevor Plouffe singled him to third. With one out, Plouffe stole third. DH Terry Tiffee hit int oa run-scoring force.
The game remained quiet from there until the 6th. One out later, Smoak went yard and the US led Germany didn't get a baserunner till the 7th when 3B Dominik Wulf singled with two away. In the 8th, Martin Dewald came in to pitch and immediately gave up a home run to Plouffe. Smoak walked. With two away, Dewald threw a wild pitch, then Tiffee singled in Smoak for a lead. After 8 strong innings by Redmond, he finally left in the 9th. Jason Childers came in.
Wulf ground into an error by Plouffe, scoring Germany's lone run of the day. Davis, the only US player in the starting lineup who had not started game one, finished a double shy of the cycle. Spain continued its fine tournament, leading Cuba until the bottom of the 8th before they lost the game. The Cuban national team had only lost twice before to European teams, both times being against the Netherlands and In the 5th, Spain almost scored, getting two on with one out. In the sixth, Spain took the lead.
Down , Cuba rallied. RF Alfredo Despaigne fouled out. PH Ariel Borrero singled in two runs to put Cuba ahead. Spain fought back, though. Paco Figueroa tripled off Pedroso to start the 7th. Cuba got two men in scoring position in the 7th but Cepeda flew out to end the rally.
In the 8th, Paco Figueroa made it to third but was stranded when Navarro struck out. In the bottom of the 8th, Manny Olivera began by walking Despaigne. He was relieved by Jorge Balboa. Borrero singled to center. With one out, Riera singled. RF Cristhian Presichi homered for a lead. Naylor had faced five hitters and retired none before Jon Deeble gave him the hook. In the third, Quintero singled with one out against Tim Cox , the 4th Australian pitcher.
Presichi walked. Contreras grounded the runners over, then Valencia singled them in. They made it in the fifth on a solo homer by LF James Linger. Mexico scored again in the 6th off the 6th Australian pitcher, Paul Mildren.
Australia rallied in the bottom of the 6th after Mexico changed six players on defense. SS James Beresford hit a run-scoring double. Quintanilla left with almost as bad a day as Naylor had given the opposition. Hugo Castellanos relieved and gave up a Linger single. Harman singled home Beresford and it was now a one-run game. Arturo Lopez relieved Castellanos and got Snelling on a pop up. After a quiet 7th, the scoring resumed in the 8th.
Josh Hill was Australia's new hurler and Valencia greeted him with a single. Facing Alan Guerrero in the bottom of the 8th, Australia finally tied it on a single by Mathew Kennelly and a pinch-hit home run by Joel Naughton.
In the 9th, Mexico got ahead once more. With one out, Quintero doubled off Hill and Presichi singled him in. Welch reached on an error by Valencia. Mathew Kennelly then grounded out to end it. Quintero had gone 5 for 5 with 3 runs and a RBI and Valencia had driven in four. The Netherlands Antilles closed within one in the third.
Both teams mounted rallies from there but no one scored again until the 5th. With two outs in the fifth, SS Raywendley van Gurp singled. South Korea loaded the bases in the 5th but failed to score off Johnny Gregorius. In the 7th, PH Quincy Martina doubled to open the frame. Van Gurp hit into an error by the pitcher, scoring Martina. Simmons bunted Van Gurp over, then Jansen singled him in.
Korea made up the two runs in the bottom of the 7th on three straight one-out singles, chasing Gregorius. An error and another single closed the gap to In the 8th, Snijders walked with one out and Joubert singled. An out later, Van Gurp walked to load the bases. Simmons singled in one. A wild pitch scored another and a throwing error by the Korean catcher on the same play let in one more for a Antillean edge. Korea scored in the 8th on a single and an error to end the scoring.
South Korea stranded 15 runners in the loss, which featured some sloppy play on both sides 6 errors, 4 wild pitches, 3 hit batsmen. In the first, 3B Jimy Gonzalez hit his 5th home run of the Cup, maintaining his lead.
In the third, 2B Mario Holmann hit a leadoff single and Lopez contributed a 2-run homer to double the lead. Japan got back one in the bottom of the inning when LF Yoshinobu Kotegawa tripled against Jose Perez Castellon and came home on a grounder; it was the lone run off Castellon in six innings. In the 4th, Nicaragua finished their scoring.
With one out, 1B Sandor Guido singled. An out later, Holmann singled him to second. Lopez then homered for the second time this game, a 3-run shot, for a lead. Nicaragua went hitless over the next 3 innings and didn't score again but the damage had been done. Japan finally mounted some offense in the 8th, facing former major leaguer Oswaldo Mairena.
They would get no closer in taking their first loss. The US didn't romp China as much as Venezuela or Germany had, but they still had no problem with the third-rate Chinese squad. The US got all it needed in the first. Li surprisingly shut out the USA for the next six innings. In the 8th, they got some more offense.
CF Buck Coats doubled. Plouffe grounded out, then Tiffee singled home both runners. The team's 16 overall strikeouts were a new US record. The Czech Republic managed to go through the tournament without taking a mercy rule loss, a moral victory.
With one out in the first, SS Han Lin singled. DH Hung-Yu Lin hit a sacrifice fly to make it The second was even bloodier. LF Tai-Yung Kuo began with a single. Wu walked. Ken-Wei Lin singled to make it After Kuo walked, Hung-Yu Lin doubled in 3 runs.
C Kun-Sheng Lin singled. Great Britain finally got to Summers in the fifth; with two outs, 3B Chris Falls singled and stole second. LF Matt McGraw hit a run-scoring ground double. Britain made it in the 7th. Croatia finally scored in the 8th. With one out, DH Slobodan Gales walked and advanced on a wild pitch. Up came Karin, the potential tying run. Boleska escaped by striking out Karin on four pitchers. Boleska went in the 9th to wrap up the save; he had 8 strikeouts in four innings out of the bullpen.
In the second, 3B Ruben Gotay drew a Smith walk. SS Angel Sanchez singled in Abreu. It was remained scoreless from there until the 5th, when Matos and Rivera singled and Gotay grounded in Matos.
Puerto Rico increased their lead to 8 in the sixth. Reliever Hein Robb gave up a Sanchez triple and Negron grounded him home. Valentin singled and Matos was hit by a pitch. A passed ball advanced both runners. Rivera hit a sacrifice fly. The scoring ended in the 7th. Abreu greeted new pitcher Kieran Cree with a double. Falu grounded him to third. Sanchez and Negron walked on a combined 9 pitches to load the bases, then Valentin emptied the bags with a triple.
Matos singled in Valentin for a score. Valentin finished with 3 runs and 3 RBI. Rickard Leander tossed a top of the first for Sweden. Canada ran away with it by the second. RF Adam Loewen hit into a force. SS Jonathan Malo singled in Frostad for a lead. Maikel Hurtado relieved and walked 2B Brett Lawrie. CF Rene Tosoni hit a bases-clearing triple.
Canada padded their lead in the 3rd. With one out, Robinson was hit by a pitch. The wild Hurtado then walked Loewen and Malo back-to-back. Peter Jansson relieved Hurtado and gave up a 2-run double to Lawrie. Tosoni grounded in Malo to make it Canada increased the score to in the 4th. Tisell walked Frostad. Malo singled.
Sweden went to its 6th pitcher of the day, Joakim Claesson. Lawrie singled, as did Tosoni. Bowman struck out, then Smith walloped a grand slam.
Frostad and Robinson singled. Loewen flew out. Malo singled to load the bases. Tosoni singled in Robinson for a lead. Venezuela eliminated Germany from the second round with a rout.
CF Jonathan Sivira hit into a force. C Ruben Cabrera drew a walk. SS Dirimo Chavez delivered a 2-run double. In the third, Venezuela increased their lead to 6. Eugen Heilmann relieved and gave up a run-scoring single to Sivira.
Germany contained Venezuela for the next 3 innings. They got their only run in the bottom of the 6th. In the 7th, 3B Michael Sandoval hit a one-out solo home run to put Venezuela ahead The 8th inning made the rout. Vasquez led off with a walk and then Siriva, Cabrera and Bruzual hit three straight singles. Former Twins farmhand Rodney Gessmann relieved and was wild. He walked Chavez to force in a run and plunked Connell, forcing in another.
Sandoval hit into a 2-run error by 3B Dominik Wulf to make it a 5-run inning and giving Venezuela a lead. Markus Winkler and Max Boldt finished off the inning for Germany, allowing no more scores. Puerto Rico looked sharp for the second straight game. After a rocky first in which three Spanish batters reached, Puerto Rico went ahead in the bottom of the first. CF Luis Matos bunted his way aboard and advanced on a wild pitch. A single by 1B Carlos Rivera scored Matos.
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