World Junior Baseball Championship
2010-08-03 at 11:16
The baseball gods giveth and they taketh away. Unfortunately for the Cuban entry at the World Junior Baseball Championship, they gave the runs to the Australians and took them away from the Caribbean powerhouse in a wild seventh inning that decided their semifinal match Saturday afternoon at Port Arthur...
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2010-08-02 at 10:27
Against a team like the powerful Cubans, all it takes is one mistake to let the game get away. Tom Robson made that mistake in the fourth inning, and No. 9 hitter Andy Ibanez made him pay. Ibanez, hitting just .136 and unceremoniously dumped from the Cuban’s lead-off spot, made a believer of his countrymen...
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2010-08-02 at 02:31
Into everybody’s life a little rain must fall. It’s a phrase the Australian national junior baseball team probably never wants to hear again after a two-hour rain delay derailed their chances to bring home World Junior Baseball Championship gold at Port Arthur Stadium. Up 4-3 when the skies opened...
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2010-07-28 at 17:07
The Netherlands have pulled off the near impossible. The Dutch squad scored six runs Wednesday in the bottom of the eighth inning at Baseball Central to erase what had been a 7-0 Cuban lead, tying the game at 8-8, then OF Brennan Nijhof walked home with the winning run in the 10th, scoring the upset...
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2010-07-28 at 08:36
It took them eight innings, but the real South Korean team finally showed up Monday afternoon. A day after being upset by host Canada at the World Junior Baseball Championship, the two-time defending champions were taken to the limit by an unheralded Czech Republic squad for much of the matinee affair....
2010-07-28 at 08:35
The Canadian national junior baseball team has come of age. Canada held off a hard-charging South Korean squad on Sunday afternoon at the World Junior Baseball Championship, earning perhaps the country its biggest win in international play since they won the juniors in 1991, a 5-4 roller-coaster ride...
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2010-07-28 at 08:34
If anyone doubted the American’s chances at the World Junior Baseball Championship, they can put those fears aside. The undefeated U.S. (3-0) took a Chinese Taipei team that was averaging .418 after two games and absolutely humiliated them Monday night, scoring seven runs on seven straight hits in the...
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2010-07-28 at MIDNIGHT
Canada’s offense was on a roll Tuesday night. Every starter racked up at least one hit as Canada continued its strong performance as host of the World Junior Baseball Championship, smothering Panama with a four-run first en route to a 9-2 win in front of another packed house at Port Arthur Stadium....
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2010-07-26 at 10:25
International Baseball Federation president Riccardo Fraccari says he’s not happy with how things transpired getting Venezuela to Thunder Bay and promised the sport’s governing body will get to the bottom of it once the World Junior Baseball Championship is in the books. Fraccari, who arrived in Thunder...
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2010-07-26 at 10:23
Darwin Ramirez is a reliever by trade. And though no one will ever mistake the 17-year-old for Pedro Martinez, he does a pretty good job filling in in a pinch. Ramirez, with just 10 teammates on the bench beside him, went fastball heavy at Team France, who couldn’t take advantage of early control issues...
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