Watched a little of the Chechia - South Korea game last night. Shay Whitcomb had two bombs in his first 3 AB’s. The Chechia team was interesting. Well coached and executed. Decent hitting. The pitching appeard to be JuCo-level. Plenty of velocity but not a lot of movement. The South Korean team jumped out to an early 6-0 lead off of a 1st inning salami and a couple of runs in the 2nd since they were teeing off on the Chechian pitchers. They brought in a guy that was a bit more polished to shut them down for a couple of innings and the Chechian bats got to work, bringing the score to 6-3. You could see the Koreans perk up a bit and buckle down and then the differences in the teams became readily apparant. It was fun to watch a little baseball while running on the treadmill.
I wonder if Limey is at this Mexico-Great Britain game.
I sure wish we could ask him.
Maldy catching for Puerto Rico tonight.
Takahashi, the pitcher for Brazil is having a hard time against the USA. 26 pitches. 2 runs, 2 on, 1 out top of the 1st.
And he gets out of the jam with no further damage.
Lucar Ramirez (Manny’s son) leads off with a homer to cut the lead in half.
What is Takahashi’s tie to Brazil? Is there a large Japanese community there as there is in Ecuador?
Acording to Wikipedia, he was born in São Paulo.
Well, that answers that.
Also from Wikipedia: Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that there were 2 million Japanese descendants in Brazil, making it the country with the largest population of Japanese origin outside Japan.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!
Wtf? Now I’ve got a screen telling me this program is not available for streaming.
A 17 year old high schooler throwing up a zero against the US.
The WBC is the “how can you not be romantic about baseball?” In a nutshell
Try rooting for Panama and you’ll find out.
End of two and the Red Coats lead 1-0
Meanwhile Panama, batting in the top of the 8th, is leading Puerto Rico 2-1
Judge has to be one of the stupidest players of all time.
At the half, the Brits still lead the Americans 1-0
Not watching, but what play made you say that?