Friday Boxes... Everything was pretty much settled anyway. Korea beat Taiwan 4-3, Canada edged Germany 2-1, Mexico over Spain by the same score and the Saffies finally scored some runs! 11 of them but they gave up 13 in a loss to Oz...
Final Standings here
Canada, Korea and Taiwan qualify.
Over and out.
March 13th box scores.
Canada hung on to beat the Koreans 4-3 in Taichung tonight. We took a 4-1 lead into the 9th and almost blew it. Korea has a scary offense. The 30 or so Canadians in the crowd were invited onto the field for a group pic with Team Canada after the game. We have officially qualified for the Beijing Olympics with the win. First defeat of the tourney for the Korea.
In other games the Aussies took down Spain 9-0, Taiwan beat South Africa 4-0 and Mexico shut out Germany by the same score 4-0.
Germany v Canada tomorrow in Duo Liu.
Koreans play Taiwan at 6:30 which is sure to be a packed house here in Taichung.
Recap of Wednesday's games.
Yang Chien-fu pitched a complete game 4 hitter against the Aussies for the hosts.
Canada waxed the Spaniards. Korea skinned the Krauts and qualified. Fernando Machado struck out 18 as Mexico handled the Saffies. Box scores at this link.
The title says "He did it on purpose!"
I am looking for more info because the 5th grade is confessing to throwing trash at the Canadian team. I only caught the 9th and 10th innings. I checked the Taipei Times. It said after making contact with the taiwanese catcher the Canadian was out. In celebration the catcher threw the ball up and it hit the Canadian on the helmet... which led to both benches clearing.
click the title for the link to the Taipei times article.
I'm a poor correspondent.
Here's a link to Saturday's box scores. We caught Canada's drubbing of the Saffies but left early cause some guy in the press box threw a ball back into the crowd and hit the Sandstress on the head. She was nursing Burl at the time. She's fine. Indignant but fine. Thankfully it didn't hit little Burly or the other 2 babies sitting there with their mothers.
Korea smoked the Aussies. No, eviscerated would be a better description. It was painful. And the Korean section was really noisy about it too. Damn those plastic bats. They had hot cheerleaders though.
Here are Sunday's box scores. The Krauts gave CT a run and only lost 2 - 0. I watched that game on TV cause I couldn't find the Canada - Australia game anywhere. They showed a replay later but only after I already knew the score. I knew that OZ wasn't as bad as the Koreans made them look on Saturday night. Canada fell 10 - 5. Sad news. I received a couple updates from Deano in Dou Liu. There sure wern't many people there...
Tonight Canada plays CT. I'm headin out there assuming the rain hold off.
CT and Korea are both 3-0. Canada, OZ are at 2-1. Complete standings here.
