FOOL WBC #4!

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I'll give a hint, one of the three teams is the U.S. has made it all 3 years to the semi-finals.

Yeah, when I was submitting the second one, I was thinking I should have kept the US in there, because I was thinking that same thing.

Okay...my final guess, and if I get it wrong, I'll let some of the others come in and try:

US
Canada
Cuba

[Alan T]

WBC Day 10:

USA 9, Puerto Rico 1 - Andy Hobbs pitches 8 innings of 1 run ball, giving up 7 hits for the win.

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Sunday, April 10th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Puerto Rico 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 8 1 USA 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 X 9 11 1
Puerto Rico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Hernández 3B 4 0 2 0 1 1 2 .297 1 3 E. Medina LF 5 0 0 0 0 2 6 .243 0 5 R. Santos RF 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 .316 2 8 C. Gonzáles DH 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .081 1 4 L. Pérez C 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 .275 2 9 T. Carrasco SS 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .176 0 0 S. Dávila CF 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 .294 0 3 a-J. Sánchez PR, CF 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 .250 0 0 A. Lozano 1B 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 .341 2 9 R. López 2B 4 0 2 1 0 0 1 .378 0 2 Totals 35 1 8 1 2 5 19 a - J. Sánchez pinch ran for S. Dávila in the 7th BATTING Doubles: J. Hernández (5, 9th Inning off R. Wright, 0 on, 2 outs) R. López (3, 7th Inning off A. Hobbs, 2 on, 2 outs) R. Santos (5, 4th Inning off A. Hobbs, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: J. Hernández 3, L. Pérez, R. López 3, A. Lozano, R. Santos 2, S. Dávila 2-out RBI: R. López Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , E. Medina 2, T. Carrasco, C. Gonzáles, J. Sánchez Team LOB: 10 FIELDING Errors: R. Santos (3)	USA AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. Tomlinson LF 4 1 1 1 1 0 3 .182 1 3 R. Moore RF 4 2 2 2 1 0 3 .395 1 9 H. Thompson DH 4 2 2 2 1 1 0 .419 4 16 F. Dawson 1B 5 1 1 0 0 1 3 .308 3 9 T. Jones C 3 2 1 0 1 1 2 .265 4 15 C. Peña CF 5 1 1 1 0 3 5 .286 1 3 X. Jiménez 3B 5 0 0 1 0 1 4 .406 3 13 C. Murphy SS 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 .833 1 3 M. Griffith 2B 3 0 2 2 1 0 1 .350 1 7 Totals 35 9 11 9 5 7 21 BATTING Doubles: A. Tomlinson (2, 1st Inning off C. Martínez, 0 on, 0 outs) M. Griffith (7, 1st Inning off C. Martínez, 2 on, 2 outs) Home Runs: R. Moore (1, 1st Inning off C. Martínez, 1 on, 0 outs) H. Thompson (4, 4th Inning off J. Belderrian, 1 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: C. Peña, A. Tomlinson 2, C. Murphy, R. Moore 5, M. Griffith 3, T. Jones, H. Thompson 5, F. Dawson 2-out RBI: A. Tomlinson, M. Griffith 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: C. Peña, A. Tomlinson 2, R. Moore Team LOB: 10 FIELDING Errors: A. Tomlinson (1)
Puerto Rico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA C. Martínez L (0-1) 0.2 6 5 5 1 1 1 26 14 18.00 J. Mazariegos 2.0 3 0 0 0 1 0 28 17 8.64 J. Belderrian 1.0 2 4 4 2 2 1 46 28 13.50 J. Mejía 3.2 0 0 0 1 3 0 50 31 1.00 J. García 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 0 12 7 4.82 PITCHING Game Score: C. Martínez 12 Batters Faced: C. Martínez 9, J. Mazariegos 9, J. Belderrian 9, J. Mejía 13, J. García 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: C. Martínez 1-0, J. Mazariegos 2-3, J. Belderrian 1-0, J. Mejía 1-7, J. García 0-2 Pitches - Strikes: C. Martínez 26-14, J. Mazariegos 28-17, J. Belderrian 46-28, J. Mejía 50-31, J. García 12-7 Inherited Runners - Scored: J. Mazariegos 2-0, J. Belderrian 1-0, J. Mejía 3-1 WP: J. Belderrian HB: J. Belderrian 2, J. Mejía	USA IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Hobbs W (1-1) 8.0 7 1 1 2 4 0 126 78 5.59 R. Wright 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 16 11 5.40 PITCHING Game Score: A. Hobbs 66 Batters Faced: A. Hobbs 34, R. Wright 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Hobbs 6-14, R. Wright 1-1 Pitches - Strikes: A. Hobbs 126-78, R. Wright 16-11 HB: A. Hobbs
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: A. Hobbs Ballpark: Ann Arbor Grounds Weather: Roof closed, 63 degrees Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 3:08 Attendance: 39859

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Yeah, when I was submitting the second one, I was thinking I should have kept the US in there, because I was thinking that same thing.

Okay...my final guess, and if I get it wrong, I'll let some of the others come in and try:

US
Canada
Cuba

Nope!

[Alan T]

Pool A Player of the Week:

It can be difficult for a young player to step out of the shadows and assert himself in the POOL A, but last week Gaël Pichette of the Canada reminded everyone just why he's here as he threw up numbers that made him an easy selection for Player of the Week.

Pichette rocked opposing pitching for a .357 average (10-28), 4 home runs and 11 RBIs to come away with the award.

[Alan T]

POOL B Player of the Week:

Once you hit 35, it's hard to say how much time you've got left in baseball. Xavier Jiménez has been fortunate as his numbers for the past week bear out. The 35-year-old third baseman, a favorite in the USA clubhouse, hit .579 last week as he put up Player of the Week numbers.

Jiménez also put together 11 hits in 19 at-bats, 3 home runs and 11 RBIs for the week.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Nope!

Boo!

Go USA!!

[Alan T]

WBC Day 11:

Cuba 5, England 4 (13 innings) - Brian Prebble and Quincy Strode hit back to back solo home runs in the top of the 13th, but Cuba comes back in the bottom of the 13th as Jose Munoz doubles home two runs and Jose Nava hits a RBI single for the win.

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Monday, April 11th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 R H E England 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 11 1 Cuba 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 5 12 1
England AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI C. MacIan LF 6 0 0 0 0 0 4 .208 1 5 M. Horsforth 2B 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 .286 1 3 P. Blowey SS 5 0 1 0 0 1 2 .306 2 5 d-M. Thomas PR, SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .118 0 1 B. Prebble CF 4 3 3 2 2 0 1 .325 3 7 Q. Strode 3B 6 1 2 2 0 1 5 .340 2 13 A. Gates 1B 5 0 1 0 1 0 3 .278 0 5 J. Blowey DH 5 0 0 0 1 1 2 .286 1 3 T. Merrell RF 3 0 0 0 0 3 3 .160 0 4 a-M. Silcock PH, RF 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 .286 0 0 D. Allcock C 2 0 0 0 1 1 3 .222 1 7 b-M. Blatherwick PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .310 1 3 c-D. Braund C 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 .000 0 0 Totals 49 4 11 4 5 10 25 a - M. Silcock pinch hit for T. Merrell in the 9th b - M. Blatherwick pinch hit for D. Allcock in the 9th c - D. Braund substituted for M. Blatherwick in the 9th d - M. Thomas pinch ran for P. Blowey in the 10th BATTING Doubles: M. Horsforth (3, 3rd Inning off J. Fonseca, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: Q. Strode (2, 13th Inning off J. Torres, 0 on, 0 outs) B. Prebble 2 (3, 2nd Inning off J. Fonseca, 0 on, 0 outs; 13th Inning off J. Torres, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: P. Blowey, Q. Strode 5, A. Gates, B. Prebble 9, M. Horsforth 3, M. Silcock 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: C. MacIan, Q. Strode 2, A. Gates GIDP: C. MacIan, J. Blowey Team LOB: 12 FIELDING Errors: M. Silcock (4) Double Plays: 1 (Blowey-Horsforth-Gates)	Cuba AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI P. Garza CF 6 0 0 0 0 2 4 .311 2 14 M. Valenzuela LF 5 1 1 0 1 0 0 .333 1 6 J. Villa SS 6 1 3 0 0 1 1 .383 0 2 Á. Quiñones 3B 5 1 1 1 0 1 2 .244 1 6 J. Muñóz DH 6 1 1 2 0 1 1 .174 1 8 J. Serrea RF 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 .277 0 3 D. Lara 2B 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 .667 0 0 a-J. Méndez PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 b-L. Lucero 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 0 0 f-J. Nava PH, 2B 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 .333 0 1 Á. Valadez 1B 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 .364 1 4 c-H. Martínez PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .273 1 6 e-M. Marrero C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 A. Coutreras C 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 .286 2 5 d-L. Santana PH, 1B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .280 3 9 Totals 47 5 12 5 3 7 12 a - J. Méndez pinch ran for D. Lara in the 7th b - L. Lucero substituted for J. Méndez in the 8th c - H. Martínez pinch hit for Á. Valadez in the 9th d - L. Santana pinch hit for A. Coutreras in the 9th e - M. Marrero substituted for H. Martínez in the 10th f - J. Nava pinch hit for L. Lucero in the 11th BATTING Doubles: J. Villa 2 (7, 1st Inning off A. Coggins, 0 on, 2 outs; 8th Inning off A. Coggins, 1 on, 0 outs) Á. Valadez 2 (4, 5th Inning off A. Coggins, 0 on, 1 out; 7th Inning off A. Coggins, 1 on, 2 outs) D. Lara (2, 2nd Inning off A. Coggins, 0 on, 2 outs) J. Muñóz (3, 13th Inning off B. Lewthwaite, 2 on, 1 out) Total Bases: J. Villa 5, Á. Valadez 5, Á. Quiñones, D. Lara 3, M. Valenzuela, J. Muñóz 2, J. Nava 2-out RBI: Á. Valadez Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , P. Garza 2, Á. Quiñones, L. Lucero GIDP: J. Villa Sac Fly: Á. Quiñones Team LOB: 9 FIELDING Errors: J. Villa (2) Double Plays: 2 (Coutreras-Lara-Valadez, Villa-Nava-Santana)
England IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Coggins 8.0 8 2 2 2 3 0 121 71 2.57 D. Eddie 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20 15 5.40 B. Lewthwaite L (0-1) 2.1 3 3 2 1 3 0 41 25 4.50 M. Cranfield 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 8.59 PITCHING Game Score: A. Coggins 59 Batters Faced: A. Coggins 34, D. Eddie 6, B. Lewthwaite 11, M. Cranfield 1 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Coggins 4-16, D. Eddie 0-5, B. Lewthwaite 2-2, M. Cranfield 0-0 Pitches - Strikes: A. Coggins 121-71, D. Eddie 20-15, B. Lewthwaite 41-25, M. Cranfield 5-4 Inherited Runners - Scored: M. Cranfield 2-1 HB: A. Coggins	Cuba IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Fonseca 7.1 4 2 2 4 5 1 118 75 2.29 O. García 2.1 2 0 0 1 1 0 42 27 4.15 J. Herrera 2.1 1 0 0 0 3 0 31 23 3.00 J. Torres 0.0 2 2 2 0 0 2 4 4 3.38 A. Colón W (1-0) 1.0 2 0 0 0 1 0 16 11 1.23 PITCHING Game Score: J. Fonseca 63 Batters Faced: J. Fonseca 30, O. García 10, J. Herrera 8, J. Torres 2, A. Colón 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: J. Fonseca 8-8, O. García 3-3, J. Herrera 0-4, J. Torres 0-0, A. Colón 1-0 Pitches - Strikes: J. Fonseca 118-75, O. García 42-27, J. Herrera 31-23, J. Torres 4-4, A. Colón 16-11 Inherited Runners - Scored: O. García 1-0, J. Herrera 2-0 WP: J. Fonseca 2
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: B. Prebble Ballpark: Charm Ballpark Weather: Cloudy (54 degrees), wind blowing in from right at 10 mph Start Time: 2:05 pm Time: 4:04 Attendance: 39830

[Alan T]

WBC Day 11:

Japan 7, Cuba 3 - Danjuro Ikeda goes 2 for 4 with a HR and 3 RBI in the win for Japan.

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Monday, April 11th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Japan 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 0 7 10 1 Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 11 0
Japan AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Higashi LF 5 1 2 1 0 2 1 .267 0 9 K. Matsumoto 2B 3 1 1 1 2 0 1 .217 0 2 E. Watanabe 3B 5 1 1 1 0 1 4 .304 2 11 H. Okamoto RF 4 0 2 1 0 1 1 .333 4 11 a-M. Sugimoto PR, RF 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .381 0 0 Y. Adachi CF 3 1 0 0 1 2 1 .257 3 8 D. Ikeda 1B 4 2 2 3 0 0 1 .205 2 6 H. Uchida DH 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 .125 0 0 T. Nishikawa SS 4 0 2 0 0 0 1 .259 1 4 T. Ito C 4 0 0 0 0 3 3 .163 1 1 Totals 35 7 10 7 4 10 15 a - M. Sugimoto pinch ran for H. Okamoto in the 8th BATTING Doubles: H. Okamoto 2 (3, 4th Inning off R. Lemieux, 1 on, 0 outs; 8th Inning off F. Théberge, 0 on, 0 outs) H. Higashi (4, 1st Inning off R. Lemieux, 0 on, 0 outs) T. Nishikawa (2, 5th Inning off R. Lemieux, 0 on, 0 outs) Triples: E. Watanabe (1, 4th Inning off R. Lemieux, 1 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: D. Ikeda (2, 8th Inning off F. Théberge, 2 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: H. Okamoto 4, E. Watanabe 3, H. Higashi 3, D. Ikeda 5, K. Matsumoto, T. Nishikawa 3 2-out RBI: H. Higashi Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: E. Watanabe, K. Matsumoto, H. Uchida GIDP: T. Nishikawa Team LOB: 6 BASERUNNING CS: K. Matsumoto (1) FIELDING Errors: T. Nishikawa (2)	Canada AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI S. Zhai LF 5 1 1 0 0 2 1 .277 1 3 J. Ledrew 2B 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 .356 0 6 D. Juteau 1B 4 0 3 1 1 1 2 .394 2 8 b-L. Terry PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .100 0 0 G. Pichette DH 5 0 1 1 0 1 5 .341 4 12 R. Roy SS 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .171 0 1 C. LaRocque C 4 0 2 0 0 1 1 .382 1 1 J. Hardwick CF 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 .108 0 3 Y. Yang 3B 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 .222 0 3 J. Renouf RF 3 0 2 0 0 1 2 .565 1 5 a-T. Brisson PR, RF 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 .455 1 3 Totals 37 3 11 3 2 8 17 a - T. Brisson pinch ran for J. Renouf in the 7th b - L. Terry pinch ran for D. Juteau in the 9th BATTING Doubles: C. LaRocque 2 (6, 4th Inning off N. Ueda, 0 on, 1 out; 6th Inning off N. Ueda, 0 on, 1 out) D. Juteau (1, 7th Inning off N. Ueda, 2 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: G. Pichette, C. LaRocque 4, J. Renouf 2, J. Ledrew, S. Zhai, Y. Yang, D. Juteau 4 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: G. Pichette, J. Renouf, Y. Yang 2 Team LOB: 10 BASERUNNING SB: S. Zhai (7) FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (LaRocque-Roy, Juteau-Roy-Juteau)
Japan IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA N. Ueda W (2-1) 7.1 11 3 3 1 7 0 118 73 1.59 R. Ine 1.2 0 0 0 1 1 0 27 17 1.80 PITCHING Game Score: N. Ueda 50 Batters Faced: N. Ueda 34, R. Ine 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: N. Ueda 7-6, R. Ine 2-2 Pitches - Strikes: N. Ueda 118-73, R. Ine 27-17 WP: N. Ueda HB: N. Ueda	Canada IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA R. Lemieux L (1-2) 6.2 8 4 4 1 9 0 126 83 3.68 F. Théberge 0.1 2 3 3 2 0 1 17 8 6.75 D. MacLeod 2.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 30 17 1.35 PITCHING Game Score: R. Lemieux 50 Batters Faced: R. Lemieux 28, F. Théberge 5, D. MacLeod 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: R. Lemieux 5-5, F. Théberge 1-0, D. MacLeod 3-1 Pitches - Strikes: R. Lemieux 126-83, F. Théberge 17-8, D. MacLeod 30-17 Inherited Runners - Scored: F. Théberge 2-0
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: D. Ikeda Ballpark: Assasins Ballpark Weather: Partly Cloudy (49 degrees), wind blowing in from right at 12 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 3:11 Attendance: 39787

[Alan T]

WBC Day 11:

USA 5, Puerto Rico 0 - Mike Bradford pitches 7 innings of 4-hit shutout ball for the win.

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Monday, April 11th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Puerto Rico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 USA 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 X 5 6 0
Puerto Rico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Hernández 3B 3 0 0 0 2 1 1 .275 1 3 E. Medina LF 4 0 1 0 0 1 3 .244 0 5 R. Santos RF 3 0 1 0 1 1 3 .317 2 8 C. Gonzáles DH 4 0 0 0 0 2 5 .073 1 4 L. Pérez C 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 .273 2 9 R. López 2B 4 0 1 0 0 1 2 .366 0 2 a-J. Sánchez PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 0 0 b-C. Williams 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 T. Carrasco SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 .162 0 0 A. Lozano 1B 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 .311 2 9 S. Dávila CF 3 0 1 0 1 2 0 .297 0 3 Totals 32 0 5 0 4 9 18 a - J. Sánchez pinch ran for R. López in the 8th b - C. Williams substituted for J. Sánchez in the 8th BATTING Doubles: L. Pérez (4, 4th Inning off M. Bradford, 1 on, 1 out) Total Bases: L. Pérez 2, E. Medina, R. López, R. Santos, S. Dávila Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: T. Carrasco, R. Santos, C. Gonzáles 2 Team LOB: 10 FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (Lozano-Carrasco-Lozano, Zavala-Carrasco-Lozano)	USA AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. Tomlinson LF 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 .167 1 3 R. Moore RF 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 .405 1 9 H. Thompson DH 3 2 1 0 1 0 2 .413 4 16 F. Dawson 1B 4 1 1 4 0 0 2 .302 4 13 T. Jones C 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 .306 4 16 C. Peña CF 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 .267 1 3 X. Jiménez 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 5 .361 3 13 E. López SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .314 3 5 a-W. Shaw PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .571 1 4 b-B. Adams SS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .417 2 4 C. Murphy 2B 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .625 1 3 Totals 28 5 6 5 3 0 17 a - W. Shaw pinch hit for E. López in the 7th b - B. Adams substituted for W. Shaw in the 8th BATTING Doubles: H. Thompson (3, 7th Inning off P. Zavala, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: F. Dawson (4, 8th Inning off P. Zavala, 3 on, 1 out) Total Bases: R. Moore 2, T. Jones 2, H. Thompson 2, F. Dawson 4 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: E. López, W. Shaw GIDP: H. Thompson, F. Dawson Team LOB: 7 BASERUNNING SB: T. Jones (1)
Puerto Rico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA P. Zavala L (1-2) 7.1 5 5 5 3 0 1 108 66 5.12 J. Mazariegos 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 6 8.00 PITCHING Game Score: P. Zavala 45 Batters Faced: P. Zavala 31, J. Mazariegos 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: P. Zavala 6-14, J. Mazariegos 1-1 Pitches - Strikes: P. Zavala 108-66, J. Mazariegos 9-6 HB: P. Zavala 3	USA IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA M. Bradford W (3-0) 7.0 4 0 0 4 7 0 117 68 1.27 C. Shepherd H (2) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 10 8 15.43 K. Davies H (2) 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 6.75 K. Baty SV (1) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 18 11 2.45 PITCHING Game Score: M. Bradford 72 Batters Faced: M. Bradford 30, C. Shepherd 2, K. Davies 1, K. Baty 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: M. Bradford 9-5, C. Shepherd 1-0, K. Davies 0-0, K. Baty 1-2 Pitches - Strikes: M. Bradford 117-68, C. Shepherd 10-8, K. Davies 6-4, K. Baty 18-11 Inherited Runners - Scored: K. Baty 1-0 HB: M. Bradford
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: M. Bradford Ballpark: Ann Arbor Grounds Weather: Clear skies (49 degrees), wind blowing out to left at 10 mph Start Time: 1:05 pm Time: 2:43 Attendance: 39648

[Alan T]

WBC Day 11:

Mexico 10, Dominican Republic 5 - Felix Garcia goes 3 for 5 with two doubles and 2 RBI in the win for Mexico.

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Monday, April 11th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Mexico 6 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 10 13 0 Dominican Republic 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 5 9 0
Mexico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. García RF 5 1 3 0 0 1 0 .375 2 5 N. Matos DH 5 1 2 0 0 0 2 .320 0 6 J. Moreno LF 4 2 1 1 1 0 1 .321 3 17 F. García CF 5 2 3 2 0 1 0 .286 2 9 A. Cardenas 3B 4 1 1 1 0 1 3 .275 3 12 J. Rivera 1B 3 2 2 2 0 1 1 .432 0 11 J. Muñóz 2B 4 0 0 1 0 1 4 .097 1 6 A. Ruíz SS 3 1 1 3 0 0 0 .214 2 7 A. Torres C 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 .195 4 9 Totals 37 10 13 10 1 7 11 BATTING Doubles: F. García 2 (5, 1st Inning off J. Sánchez, 2 on, 0 outs; 5th Inning off T. Fernández, 1 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: A. Ruíz (2, 1st Inning off J. Sánchez, 1 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: F. García 5, A. García 3, N. Matos 2, J. Moreno, A. Cardenas, J. Rivera 2, A. Ruíz 4 2-out RBI: A. Ruíz GIDP: N. Matos, J. Moreno Sac Fly: A. Ruíz Team LOB: 3 FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Ochoa-Muñóz-Rivera)	Dominican Republic AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Rodríguez LF 3 3 2 1 2 0 1 .318 1 5 J. Rodríguez 2B 5 1 2 1 0 0 3 .227 0 6 S. Luján 1B 5 0 1 0 0 2 3 .349 4 4 A. Castaneda DH 4 1 1 0 1 0 2 .175 2 7 E. Negrete 3B 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 .238 0 3 A. Cuesta C 3 0 2 2 2 1 0 .343 0 2 J. Soto SS 4 0 0 0 1 1 6 .250 0 8 L. Torres RF 4 0 1 0 1 1 4 .256 0 5 R. Chávez CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .162 0 5 Totals 35 5 9 4 7 5 24 BATTING Doubles: L. Torres (2, 2nd Inning off C. Román, 0 on, 0 outs) H. Rodríguez (4, 5th Inning off C. Román, 0 on, 1 out) Home Runs: H. Rodríguez (1, 7th Inning off C. Román, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: L. Torres 2, A. Cuesta 2, A. Castaneda, H. Rodríguez 6, J. Rodríguez 2, S. Luján 2-out RBI: A. Cuesta Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: E. Negrete, J. Soto 2, L. Torres, J. Rodríguez GIDP: R. Chávez Team LOB: 12 FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (Villarreal-Soto-Luján, Soto-Rodríguez-Luján)
Mexico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA C. Román W (2-1) 6.0 6 5 5 3 5 1 110 70 5.17 V. Ochoa 2.2 3 0 0 4 0 0 70 32 9.39 C. Gutiérrez SV (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0.00 PITCHING Game Score: C. Román 42 Batters Faced: C. Román 28, V. Ochoa 15, C. Gutiérrez 1 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: C. Román 4-9, V. Ochoa 3-4, C. Gutiérrez 0-1 Pitches - Strikes: C. Román 110-70, V. Ochoa 70-32, C. Gutiérrez 2-1 Inherited Runners - Scored: C. Gutiérrez 3-0 WP: C. Román HB: C. Román, V. Ochoa Balk: C. Román	Dominican Republic IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Sánchez L (0-3) 3.0 7 6 6 0 2 1 55 35 10.13 T. Fernández 1.1 3 4 4 1 1 0 36 24 12.54 F. Villarreal 3.2 2 0 0 0 3 0 44 27 1.69 R. Díaz 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 6 0.00 PITCHING Game Score: J. Sánchez 21 Batters Faced: J. Sánchez 16, T. Fernández 9, F. Villarreal 12, R. Díaz 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: J. Sánchez 3-4, T. Fernández 3-0, F. Villarreal 4-3, R. Díaz 1-0 Pitches - Strikes: J. Sánchez 55-35, T. Fernández 36-24, F. Villarreal 44-27, R. Díaz 10-6 Inherited Runners - Scored: F. Villarreal 1-1 WP: T. Fernández HB: T. Fernández
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: F. García Ballpark: Ballpark of Hammersmith Weather: Partly Cloudy (40 degrees), wind blowing in from left at 15 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 3:25 Attendance: 39837

[Alan T]

WBC Day 12:

England 13, Cuba 10 - Jose Munoz provides for half of Cuba's offense as he goes 3 for 5 with 2 HR and 5 RBI, but England still comes out on top.

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E England 4 1 0 3 0 3 0 2 0 13 15 0 Cuba 5 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 17 0
England AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI C. MacIan LF 5 2 2 0 1 1 3 .224 1 5 M. Horsforth 2B 5 2 1 1 0 0 2 .277 2 4 P. Blowey SS 5 3 3 1 1 1 0 .341 2 6 B. Prebble CF 4 3 2 3 2 1 0 .341 3 10 Q. Strode 3B 5 2 3 5 0 0 3 .364 3 18 A. Gates 1B 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 .282 0 6 M. Thomas DH 3 0 1 0 2 1 2 .150 0 1 T. Merrell RF 5 0 2 1 0 1 2 .200 0 5 D. Allcock C 5 0 0 0 0 2 5 .195 1 7 Totals 40 13 15 12 7 7 18 BATTING Doubles: P. Blowey (4, 4th Inning off T. Espinosa, 0 on, 1 out) C. MacIan (3, 2nd Inning off E. Mireles, 0 on, 1 out) Q. Strode (4, 4th Inning off T. Espinosa, 1 on, 1 out) A. Gates (2, 8th Inning off J. Herrera, 1 on, 0 outs) B. Prebble (1, 1st Inning off E. Mireles, 3 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: Q. Strode (3, 6th Inning off J. Herrera, 2 on, 0 outs) M. Horsforth (2, 4th Inning off T. Espinosa, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: P. Blowey 4, C. MacIan 3, Q. Strode 7, A. Gates 2, B. Prebble 3, T. Merrell 2, M. Horsforth 4, M. Thomas 2-out RBI: P. Blowey Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , C. MacIan 2, Q. Strode, M. Thomas GIDP: D. Allcock Sac Fly: A. Gates Team LOB: 9 FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Collinge-Blowey-Gates) PB: D. Allcock	Cuba AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Serrea RF 5 3 3 1 0 0 2 .308 0 4 J. Villa SS 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 .385 0 3 Á. Quiñones 3B 5 1 3 1 0 0 0 .280 1 7 P. Garza CF 5 0 2 0 0 0 6 .320 2 14 J. Muñóz DH 5 2 3 5 0 1 2 .216 3 13 H. Martínez 2B 4 1 2 0 1 0 1 .297 1 6 M. Valenzuela LF 3 2 0 0 2 0 2 .313 1 6 L. Santana 1B 5 0 1 0 0 0 3 .267 3 9 A. Coutreras C 4 0 1 1 0 2 2 .282 2 6 a-Á. Valadez PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .348 1 4 Totals 42 10 17 9 3 3 20 a - Á. Valadez pinch hit for A. Coutreras in the 9th BATTING Doubles: J. Serrea 2 (3, 1st Inning off D. Retter, 0 on, 0 outs; 3rd Inning off D. Mastin, 1 on, 2 outs) H. Martínez (2, 9th Inning off D. Eddie, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: J. Muñóz 2 (3, 1st Inning off D. Retter, 2 on, 1 out; 4th Inning off J. Collinge, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: P. Garza 2, J. Villa 2, Á. Quiñones 3, L. Santana, J. Serrea 5, A. Coutreras, J. Muñóz 9, H. Martínez 3 2-out RBI: Á. Quiñones, J. Serrea, A. Coutreras, J. Muñóz Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: P. Garza, J. Serrea, J. Muñóz, Á. Valadez GIDP: M. Valenzuela Team LOB: 8 BASERUNNING SB: P. Garza (2) FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Quiñones-Santana)
England IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA D. Retter 0.1 4 4 4 0 0 1 21 12 9.31 T. Loxton 1.1 3 1 1 1 0 0 25 16 3.97 D. Mastin 1.0 2 3 2 1 1 0 31 16 3.68 J. Collinge W (1-0) 3.1 4 1 1 1 1 1 52 33 7.59 M. Cranfield H (1) 2.0 3 1 1 0 1 0 25 17 7.71 D. Eddie SV (2) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 7 4.70 PITCHING Game Score: D. Retter 19 Batters Faced: D. Retter 5, T. Loxton 8, D. Mastin 6, J. Collinge 14, M. Cranfield 8, D. Eddie 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: D. Retter 0-1, T. Loxton 0-4, D. Mastin 0-2, J. Collinge 3-5, M. Cranfield 2-2, D. Eddie 0-3 Pitches - Strikes: D. Retter 21-12, T. Loxton 25-16, D. Mastin 31-16, J. Collinge 52-33, M. Cranfield 25-17, D. Eddie 11-7 Inherited Runners - Scored: D. Mastin 1-0, J. Collinge 1-1	Cuba IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA E. Mireles 1.2 5 5 5 1 2 0 63 37 7.04 O. García 0.2 0 0 0 2 1 0 25 12 3.86 T. Espinosa 1.0 4 3 3 0 0 1 19 14 11.81 J. Herrera L (0-1) 3.2 5 5 5 3 1 1 62 35 6.52 J. Torres 2.0 1 0 0 1 3 0 26 13 2.45 PITCHING Game Score: E. Mireles 20 Batters Faced: E. Mireles 12, O. García 4, T. Espinosa 7, J. Herrera 19, J. Torres 7 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: E. Mireles 2-1, O. García 0-1, T. Espinosa 1-2, J. Herrera 3-7, J. Torres 2-0 Pitches - Strikes: E. Mireles 63-37, O. García 25-12, T. Espinosa 19-14, J. Herrera 62-35, J. Torres 26-13 Inherited Runners - Scored: O. García 1-0, T. Espinosa 1-0, J. Herrera 1-0, J. Torres 2-2 HB: E. Mireles
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: J. Muñóz Ballpark: Charm Ballpark Weather: Clear skies (50 degrees), wind blowing in from left at 10 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 3:57 Attendance: 39761

[Alan T]

WBC Day 12:

Canada 6, Japan 1 - John Rodgers pitches a complete game 4-hitter, giving up just 1 run in the win for Canada.

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Japan 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 Canada 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 X 6 12 0
Japan AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Higashi LF 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 .250 0 9 K. Matsumoto 2B 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 .240 0 2 E. Watanabe 3B 4 0 1 0 0 0 4 .300 2 11 H. Okamoto RF 4 0 0 0 0 2 5 .308 4 11 Y. Adachi CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .231 3 8 D. Ikeda 1B 4 1 1 1 0 1 0 .208 3 7 K. Yamada DH 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 .125 0 1 T. Nishikawa SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 .233 1 4 H. Fujimoto C 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 0 0 Totals 31 1 4 1 3 6 11 BATTING Doubles: E. Watanabe (6, 6th Inning off J. Rodgers, 0 on, 2 outs) K. Yamada (1, 7th Inning off J. Rodgers, 0 on, 2 outs) K. Matsumoto (2, 8th Inning off J. Rodgers, 1 on, 1 out) Home Runs: D. Ikeda (3, 5th Inning off J. Rodgers, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: E. Watanabe 2, K. Yamada 2, D. Ikeda 4, K. Matsumoto 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , H. Okamoto 3, T. Nishikawa Team LOB: 6 FIELDING Errors: H. Higashi (1) Double Plays: 2 (Matsumoto-Nishikawa-Ikeda, Watanabe-Matsumoto-Ikeda)	Canada AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI S. Zhai LF 4 0 2 1 0 2 1 .294 1 4 J. Ledrew 2B 4 1 1 1 0 0 3 .347 0 7 D. Juteau 1B 4 0 1 0 0 1 2 .378 2 8 G. Pichette DH 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 .313 4 12 R. Roy SS 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 .200 0 2 J. Hardwick CF 4 2 2 0 0 2 1 .146 0 3 B. McCarthy C 4 0 2 2 0 1 1 .222 0 2 Y. Yang 3B 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 .211 0 3 T. Brisson RF 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 .500 1 4 Totals 33 6 12 6 1 7 12 BATTING Doubles: J. Hardwick (2, 4th Inning off N. Takeuchi, 1 on, 2 outs) R. Roy (3, 8th Inning off T. Matsui, 0 on, 1 out) B. McCarthy (1, 4th Inning off N. Takeuchi, 2 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: J. Hardwick 3, J. Ledrew, T. Brisson 2, S. Zhai 2, R. Roy 3, B. McCarthy 3, D. Juteau 2-out RBI: R. Roy, B. McCarthy Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: Y. Yang, B. McCarthy, D. Juteau GIDP: G. Pichette, J. Ledrew Team LOB: 6
Japan IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA N. Takeuchi L (1-2) 6.1 11 6 6 1 4 0 115 69 5.50 T. Matsui 1.2 1 0 0 0 3 0 18 14 3.18 PITCHING Game Score: N. Takeuchi 30 Batters Faced: N. Takeuchi 28, T. Matsui 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: N. Takeuchi 6-6, T. Matsui 1-1 Pitches - Strikes: N. Takeuchi 115-69, T. Matsui 18-14 Inherited Runners - Scored: T. Matsui 2-1 WP: N. Takeuchi	Canada IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Rodgers W (2-0) 9.0 4 1 1 3 6 1 116 72 1.44 PITCHING Game Score: J. Rodgers 78 Batters Faced: J. Rodgers 34 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: J. Rodgers 6-15 Pitches - Strikes: J. Rodgers 116-72
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: J. Rodgers Ballpark: Assasins Ballpark Weather: Partly Cloudy (47 degrees), wind blowing in from center at 17 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 2:30 Attendance: 39699

[Alan T]

WBC Day 12:

Dominican Republic 4, Mexico 3 - Roberto Chavez hits a 3-run HR that ends up being the difference in this one.

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Mexico 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 0 Dominican Republic 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 X 4 5 0
Mexico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Moreno LF 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .316 3 17 N. Matos DH 4 0 1 0 0 2 2 .315 0 6 A. Cardenas 3B 4 1 1 0 0 0 2 .273 3 12 F. García CF 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 .283 2 10 J. Rivera 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 0 11 A. García RF 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 .372 2 5 J. Muñóz SS 4 1 3 1 0 0 1 .171 1 7 C. Cantú 2B 4 0 1 1 0 1 4 .200 0 5 A. Torres C 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .186 4 9 a-M. Heredia PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0 Totals 33 3 9 3 0 3 14 a - M. Heredia pinch hit for A. Torres in the 9th BATTING Doubles: F. García (6, 4th Inning off A. Sánchez, 1 on, 0 outs) C. Cantú (3, 3rd Inning off A. Sánchez, 1 on, 0 outs) Triples: J. Muñóz (1, 4th Inning off A. Sánchez, 1 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: F. García 2, A. García, N. Matos, J. Moreno, C. Cantú 2, A. Cardenas, J. Muñóz 5 2-out RBI: J. Muñóz Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , C. Cantú 2 GIDP: A. García, A. Cardenas Team LOB: 7 FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Cantú-Muñóz-Rivera)	Dominican Republic AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Rodríguez LF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .292 1 5 J. Rodríguez 2B 4 1 3 1 0 1 0 .271 1 7 S. Luján 1B 4 0 0 0 0 2 3 .319 4 4 A. Castaneda DH 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 .163 2 7 E. Negrete 3B 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 .222 0 3 A. Cuesta C 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .316 0 2 J. Soto SS 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 .257 0 8 L. Torres RF 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 .244 0 5 R. Chávez CF 2 1 1 3 1 0 0 .179 1 8 Totals 28 4 5 4 2 5 6 BATTING Doubles: J. Soto (3, 5th Inning off P. Díaz, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: R. Chávez (1, 5th Inning off P. Díaz, 2 on, 0 outs) J. Rodríguez (1, 1st Inning off P. Díaz, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: R. Chávez 4, J. Soto 2, J. Rodríguez 6 GIDP: S. Luján Team LOB: 4 FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (Rodríguez-Soto-Luján, Soto-Rodríguez-Luján)
Mexico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA P. Díaz L (1-1) 4.0 4 4 4 2 1 2 54 33 3.72 M. González 4.0 1 0 0 0 4 0 41 29 6.08 PITCHING Game Score: P. Díaz 37 Batters Faced: P. Díaz 18, M. González 13 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: P. Díaz 6-4, M. González 5-3 Pitches - Strikes: P. Díaz 54-33, M. González 41-29 HB: P. Díaz	Dominican Republic IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Sánchez W (1-1) 8.0 8 3 3 0 3 0 104 67 4.43 A. López SV (1) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 10 0.00 PITCHING Game Score: A. Sánchez 57 Batters Faced: A. Sánchez 32, A. López 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Sánchez 8-10, A. López 0-3 Pitches - Strikes: A. Sánchez 104-67, A. López 15-10 HB: A. Sánchez 3
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: R. Chávez Ballpark: Ballpark of Hammersmith Weather: Clear skies (55 degrees), wind blowing left to right at 12 mph Start Time: 2:05 pm Time: 2:14 Attendance: 38977

[Alan T]

WBC Day 12:

Puerto Rico 3, USA 1 - Emilio Varquera pitches 8.1 innings of shutout, 5-hit ball as Puerto Rico upsets the U.S.

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Puerto Rico 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 0 USA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 1
Puerto Rico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Hernández 3B 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 .286 1 3 E. Medina LF 5 0 2 0 0 1 3 .261 0 5 R. Santos RF 3 1 1 0 1 0 2 .318 2 8 C. Gonzáles DH 5 1 0 0 0 3 7 .065 1 4 L. Pérez C 5 0 2 2 0 0 6 .286 2 11 R. López 2B 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 .364 0 2 T. Carrasco SS 3 0 1 0 0 2 1 .175 0 0 A. Lozano 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 5 .286 2 9 S. Dávila CF 4 0 1 0 0 3 1 .293 0 3 Totals 34 3 9 2 3 11 27 BATTING Doubles: R. López (4, 6th Inning off A. Moya, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: J. Hernández, L. Pérez 2, E. Medina 2, R. López 2, T. Carrasco, R. Santos, S. Dávila 2-out RBI: L. Pérez Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , L. Pérez 3, C. Gonzáles, S. Dávila GIDP: A. Lozano 2, R. Santos Team LOB: 14 FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (López-Carrasco-Lozano)	USA AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI X. Jiménez 3B 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 .325 3 13 R. Moore RF 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 .422 1 9 a-A. Tomlinson PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .162 1 3 H. Thompson DH 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 .420 5 17 F. Dawson 1B 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 .277 4 13 T. Jones C 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 .289 4 16 C. Peña CF 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 .250 1 3 W. Shaw LF 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 .529 1 4 E. López SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 .289 3 5 M. Griffith 2B 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 .349 1 7 Totals 30 1 6 1 1 5 5 a - A. Tomlinson pinch hit for R. Moore in the 9th BATTING Doubles: M. Griffith (8, 3rd Inning off E. Varquera, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: H. Thompson (5, 9th Inning off R. Abanto, 0 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: R. Moore 2, M. Griffith 2, H. Thompson 5, W. Shaw 2-out RBI: H. Thompson GIDP: F. Dawson Team LOB: 3 BASERUNNING CS: R. Moore (1), M. Griffith (3) FIELDING Errors: T. Jones (1) Double Plays: 3 (Jiménez-Griffith-Dawson, López-Griffith-Dawson, López-Griffith-Dawson)
Puerto Rico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA E. Varquera W (1-2) 8.1 5 0 0 1 4 0 102 62 3.86 R. Abanto SV (2) 0.2 1 1 1 0 1 1 9 5 9.00 PITCHING Game Score: E. Varquera 76 Batters Faced: E. Varquera 28, R. Abanto 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: E. Varquera 11-7, R. Abanto 1-0 Pitches - Strikes: E. Varquera 102-62, R. Abanto 9-5	USA IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Moya L (2-1) 6.1 6 3 0 2 9 0 119 80 0.93 K. Baty 2.2 3 0 0 1 2 0 46 27 1.80 PITCHING Game Score: A. Moya 62 Batters Faced: A. Moya 29, K. Baty 12 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Moya 6-2, K. Baty 3-2 Pitches - Strikes: A. Moya 119-80, K. Baty 46-27 Inherited Runners - Scored: K. Baty 1-0 HB: A. Moya 3, K. Baty
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: E. Varquera Ballpark: Ann Arbor Grounds Weather: Partly Cloudy (49 degrees), wind blowing out to left at 12 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 2:42 Attendance: 39626

[Alan T]

With only 6 games left, the WBC standings:

POOL A:

Cuba 8-4
Canada 7-5
Japan 5-7
England 4-8

Cuba has a magic number of 4
Canada has a magic number of 5

POOL B:

USA 10-2
Mexico 7-5
Puerto Rico 4-8
Dominican Republic 3-9

USA has a magic number of 1
Mexico has a magic number of 5

[Chief Rum]

I had thought Japan had a pretty good team, but they have not played too well here.

Cuba seems as good as they seemed in the play in tournament.

Canada, not surprised, because you get that pitching you can go far with even an average offense.

The USA seems clearly to be the best team in the tournament.

I think Mexico misses the in his prime Sierra, although they have the edge to make it in right now. I might be misremembering, but it seems like PR and the DR have been competitive at times, but by and large, they end up sucking. Is it the pitching?

Sad to see England fall off. Some of their better players in the past have simply gotten too old or retired (Whittingham and Ewbanks come immediately to mind, as well as a now too old Blatherwick, not sure if Prebble is really still as good or fallen off).

[Alan T]

I don't remember Puerto Rico ever really being that good. I think WBC #3 was the best they have been and even then is pretty comparable to what they are doing in this tournament.

I think it is the pitching, the three teams USA, Canada and Japan that have won a WBC all had some dominant top end starters and at least a couple of guys who could mash the ball if not more. Then it just takes getting hot at the right time.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 13:

England 8, Canada 7 - Juteau goes 4 for 5 with 2 HR and 4 RBI for Canada but that is not enough to overcome England whom gets home Runs from both of the Bloweys as well as MacIan and Prebble.

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Thursday, April 14th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Canada 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 1 7 10 1 England 2 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 X 8 13 1
Canada AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI S. Zhai LF 4 0 0 0 1 1 3 .273 1 4 J. Ledrew 2B 5 2 3 2 0 0 2 .370 0 9 D. Juteau 1B 5 2 4 4 0 0 0 .429 4 12 G. Pichette DH 5 0 0 0 0 1 4 .283 4 12 R. Roy SS 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 .204 0 3 C. LaRocque C 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 .351 1 1 J. Hardwick CF 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 .136 0 3 Y. Yang 3B 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 .238 0 3 J. Renouf RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 .481 1 5 Totals 37 7 10 7 2 5 15 BATTING Doubles: Y. Yang (4, 2nd Inning off A. Keep, 0 on, 1 out) Home Runs: D. Juteau 2 (4, 7th Inning off T. Loxton, 1 on, 0 outs; 9th Inning off D. Eddie, 0 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: J. Ledrew 3, R. Roy, Y. Yang 3, D. Juteau 10 2-out RBI: J. Ledrew, R. Roy, D. Juteau 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: G. Pichette, C. LaRocque, J. Ledrew Team LOB: 6 BASERUNNING CS: S. Zhai (2) FIELDING Errors: J. Ledrew (1)	England AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI C. MacIan LF 5 2 3 1 0 0 0 .254 2 6 M. Horsforth 2B 5 0 0 0 0 0 4 .250 2 4 P. Blowey SS 4 1 2 2 0 0 1 .356 3 8 a-M. Blatherwick PR, RF 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .310 1 3 B. Prebble CF 4 2 2 2 0 1 0 .354 4 12 Q. Strode 3B 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 .362 3 18 A. Gates 1B 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 .302 0 8 J. Blowey DH 4 1 1 1 0 1 4 .278 2 4 M. Silcock RF, SS 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 .280 0 0 D. Allcock C 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .200 1 7 Totals 37 8 13 8 1 3 10 a - M. Blatherwick pinch ran for P. Blowey in the 7th BATTING Home Runs: P. Blowey (3, 1st Inning off K. Hsi, 0 on, 2 outs) C. MacIan (2, 8th Inning off K. Muttart, 0 on, 2 outs) B. Prebble (4, 1st Inning off K. Hsi, 0 on, 2 outs) J. Blowey (2, 5th Inning off K. Hsi, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: P. Blowey 5, C. MacIan 6, Q. Strode, A. Gates 2, M. Silcock, B. Prebble 5, D. Allcock, J. Blowey 4 2-out RBI: , P. Blowey 2, C. MacIan, A. Gates, B. Prebble 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: P. Blowey, J. Blowey 2 Team LOB: 6 BASERUNNING SB: C. MacIan (3) FIELDING Errors: C. MacIan (1)
Canada IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA K. Hsi 6.2 10 6 6 0 2 3 107 64 4.79 D. MacLeod L (0-1)BS (1) 0.0 2 1 1 1 0 0 13 6 2.70 K. Muttart 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 1 15 11 3.86 J. St-Cyr 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0.00 PITCHING Game Score: K. Hsi 32 Batters Faced: K. Hsi 30, D. MacLeod 3, K. Muttart 4, J. St-Cyr 1 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: K. Hsi 8-9, D. MacLeod 0-0, K. Muttart 1-1, J. St-Cyr 0-1 Pitches - Strikes: K. Hsi 107-64, D. MacLeod 13-6, K. Muttart 15-11, J. St-Cyr 5-5 Inherited Runners - Scored: D. MacLeod 2-2, K. Muttart 2-0	England IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Keep 3.2 7 4 4 2 3 0 69 42 10.95 T. Loxton 2.1 2 2 2 0 2 1 28 19 4.61 M. Cranfield W (1-0) 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 8 6.35 D. Eddie SV (3) 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 1 7 6 5.19 PITCHING Game Score: A. Keep 30 Batters Faced: A. Keep 21, T. Loxton 9, M. Cranfield 6, D. Eddie 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Keep 1-7, T. Loxton 3-1, M. Cranfield 3-3, D. Eddie 2-1 Pitches - Strikes: A. Keep 69-42, T. Loxton 28-19, M. Cranfield 10-8, D. Eddie 7-6 Inherited Runners - Scored: T. Loxton 2-0 WP: T. Loxton HB: A. Keep
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: D. Juteau Ballpark: Ballpark of Boston Weather: Partly Cloudy (39 degrees), wind blowing out to center at 20 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 2:50 Attendance: 39876

[Alan T]

WBC Day 13:

Cuba 4, Japan 3 (10 innings) - Javier Mendez hits a RBI single in the bottom of the 10th to win for Cuba.

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Thursday, April 14th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 11 1 Cuba 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 9 0
Japan AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI M. Sugimoto RF 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 .346 0 0 T. Sanu 2B 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 .378 0 4 a-H. Uchida PR, 2B 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 .111 0 0 H. Okamoto DH 5 0 2 0 0 1 1 .316 4 11 E. Watanabe 3B 4 0 2 1 0 1 2 .315 2 12 H. Higashi LF 4 0 0 0 0 2 3 .231 0 9 D. Ikeda 1B 4 0 2 0 0 2 1 .231 3 7 K. Yamada CF 4 1 2 0 0 1 1 .200 0 1 K. Matsumoto SS 3 0 1 1 1 0 3 .250 0 3 T. Ito C 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 .149 1 1 Totals 38 3 11 3 1 9 13 a - H. Uchida pinch ran for T. Sanu in the 8th BATTING Doubles: K. Yamada (2, 9th Inning off A. Colón, 0 on, 1 out) Triples: M. Sugimoto (2, 8th Inning off I. Dávila, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: H. Okamoto 2, E. Watanabe 2, T. Sanu, K. Yamada 3, D. Ikeda 2, M. Sugimoto 3, K. Matsumoto 2-out RBI: E. Watanabe Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , K. Matsumoto 2 GIDP: H. Higashi, T. Ito 2 Team LOB: 8 FIELDING Errors: S. Matsuoka (1) Double Plays: 1 (Matsumoto-Sanu-Ikeda) PB: T. Ito	Cuba AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI P. Garza CF 4 0 1 0 1 1 1 .315 2 14 M. Valenzuela LF 5 0 1 0 0 1 3 .302 1 6 J. Villa SS 4 0 1 0 1 1 1 .375 0 3 Á. Quiñones 3B 3 1 1 0 2 0 2 .283 1 7 J. Muñóz DH 4 0 1 0 0 0 3 .218 3 13 a-J. Méndez PR, DH 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 1 J. Serrea RF 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 .309 0 4 D. Lara 2B 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 .563 0 0 Á. Valadez 1B 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 .333 1 5 A. Coutreras C 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 .268 2 7 b-H. Martínez PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .289 1 6 c-M. Marrero C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Totals 35 4 9 3 5 3 17 a - J. Méndez pinch ran for J. Muñóz in the 8th b - H. Martínez pinch hit for A. Coutreras in the 9th c - M. Marrero substituted for H. Martínez in the 10th BATTING Doubles: P. Garza (5, 7th Inning off S. Matsuoka, 0 on, 1 out) Á. Quiñones (1, 10th Inning off T. Tsuchiya, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: P. Garza 2, J. Villa, Á. Valadez, Á. Quiñones 2, M. Valenzuela, J. Serrea, J. Muñóz, D. Lara, J. Méndez Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: P. Garza, Á. Quiñones, M. Valenzuela, J. Muñóz GIDP: J. Villa Sac Fly: A. Coutreras Team LOB: 8 FIELDING Double Plays: 3 (Lara-Villa-Valadez, Lara-Villa-Valadez, Lara-Villa-Valadez)
Japan IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA S. Matsuoka 7.0 6 2 2 5 3 0 128 73 3.47 Y. Murakami 1.0 1 1 1 0 0 0 10 6 4.50 T. Tsuchiya L (0-1) 1.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 15 9 1.93 PITCHING Game Score: S. Matsuoka 55 Batters Faced: S. Matsuoka 31, Y. Murakami 4, T. Tsuchiya 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: S. Matsuoka 8-9, Y. Murakami 2-1, T. Tsuchiya 1-3 Pitches - Strikes: S. Matsuoka 128-73, Y. Murakami 10-6, T. Tsuchiya 15-9 WP: S. Matsuoka, Y. Murakami 2	Cuba IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA I. Dávila 7.2 9 2 2 1 6 0 126 83 3.52 J. Torres 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 3 2.35 A. Colón W (2-0)BS (1) 2.0 2 1 1 0 2 0 18 13 1.93 PITCHING Game Score: I. Dávila 58 Batters Faced: I. Dávila 31, J. Torres 1, A. Colón 7 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: I. Dávila 9-6, J. Torres 0-0, A. Colón 3-0 Pitches - Strikes: I. Dávila 126-83, J. Torres 4-3, A. Colón 18-13 Inherited Runners - Scored: J. Torres 1-0 WP: I. Dávila Balk: I. Dávila
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: S. Matsuoka Ballpark: Charm Ballpark Weather: Clear skies (55 degrees), wind blowing in from right at 8 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 3:03 Attendance: 39782

[Alan T]

WBC Day 13:

USA 8, Mexico 1 - Julio Flores strikes out 9 in 8.2 innings as he gives up only 1 run on 4 hits to clinch a spot in the Semi-finals for Team USA!

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Thursday, April 14th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Mexico 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 USA 0 3 0 0 2 3 0 0 X 8 7 0
Mexico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Moreno LF 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 .295 3 17 N. Matos DH 4 0 1 0 0 2 2 .310 0 6 A. Cardenas 3B 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 .255 3 12 F. García CF 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 .273 2 10 J. Rivera 1B 4 0 0 0 0 1 4 .364 0 11 A. García RF 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 .362 2 5 J. Muñóz SS 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 .158 1 7 C. Cantú 2B 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 .190 0 5 a-R. Rodríguez PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 b-A. Ruíz 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .214 2 7 A. Torres C 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 .217 5 10 Totals 29 1 4 1 4 9 17 a - R. Rodríguez pinch ran for C. Cantú in the 8th b - A. Ruíz substituted for R. Rodríguez in the 8th BATTING Home Runs: A. Torres (5, 3rd Inning off J. Flores, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: A. García, N. Matos, A. Torres 5 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: A. Cardenas, J. Rivera GIDP: A. García, J. Rivera Team LOB: 7 FIELDING Errors: J. Rivera (1) Double Plays: 3 (Cantú-Muñóz-Rivera, Cantú-Muñóz-Rivera, Cantú-Muñóz-Rivera)	USA AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. Tomlinson LF 3 1 1 3 1 0 1 .175 2 6 R. Moore RF 4 0 0 0 0 1 4 .388 1 9 H. Thompson DH 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .407 5 17 F. Dawson 1B 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 .275 4 13 T. Jones C 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 .310 4 16 C. Peña CF 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 .235 1 3 X. Jiménez 3B 3 2 1 2 0 1 0 .326 3 15 E. López SS 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 .282 3 5 a-C. Murphy PH, SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .556 1 3 M. Griffith 2B 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 .356 1 9 Totals 29 8 7 7 4 4 11 a - C. Murphy pinch hit for E. López in the 8th BATTING Doubles: X. Jiménez (3, 2nd Inning off P. Rodríguez, 2 on, 1 out) Home Runs: A. Tomlinson (2, 5th Inning off P. Rodríguez, 1 on, 1 out) Total Bases: A. Tomlinson 4, X. Jiménez 2, M. Griffith, T. Jones 2, H. Thompson, F. Dawson 2-out RBI: M. Griffith GIDP: R. Moore, H. Thompson, F. Dawson Team LOB: 5 FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (Flores-López-Dawson, Murphy-Griffith-Dawson)
Mexico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA P. Rodríguez L (0-2) 4.1 5 5 5 0 3 1 67 48 5.51 V. Ochoa 1.0 1 3 3 3 0 0 28 12 11.42 S. Gonzáles 2.2 1 0 0 1 1 0 29 16 5.40 PITCHING Game Score: P. Rodríguez 36 Batters Faced: P. Rodríguez 19, V. Ochoa 8, S. Gonzáles 8 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: P. Rodríguez 3-6, V. Ochoa 1-2, S. Gonzáles 4-1 Pitches - Strikes: P. Rodríguez 67-48, V. Ochoa 28-12, S. Gonzáles 29-16 Inherited Runners - Scored: S. Gonzáles 3-1 WP: V. Ochoa HB: P. Rodríguez, V. Ochoa	USA IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Flores W (3-0) 8.2 4 1 1 4 9 1 128 78 1.44 L. Árias 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 0.00 PITCHING Game Score: J. Flores 77 Batters Faced: J. Flores 33, L. Árias 1 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: J. Flores 5-10, L. Árias 0-1 Pitches - Strikes: J. Flores 128-78, L. Árias 5-4 Inherited Runners - Scored: L. Árias 1-0 HB: J. Flores
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: J. Flores Ballpark: Ann Arbor Grounds Weather: Partly Cloudy (49 degrees), wind blowing out to center at 10 mph Start Time: 2:05 pm Time: 2:40 Attendance: 39895

[Alan T]

WBC Day 13:

Dominican Republic 4, Puerto Rico 3 - Secondbaseman Juan Rodriguez goes 2 for 5 with 2 RBI to help lead the Dominican Republic to the win.

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Thursday, April 14th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dominican Republic 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 10 2 Puerto Rico 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 9 0
Dominican Republic AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Rodríguez LF 4 1 1 0 0 1 3 .288 1 5 J. Rodríguez 2B 5 1 2 2 0 0 3 .283 2 9 S. Luján 1B 5 0 2 0 0 1 2 .327 4 4 A. Castaneda DH 3 1 1 2 0 0 4 .174 3 9 E. Negrete 3B 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 .204 0 3 A. Cuesta C 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 .317 0 2 J. Soto SS 4 0 1 0 0 1 3 .256 0 8 L. Torres RF 4 0 0 0 0 4 2 .222 0 5 R. Chávez CF 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 .195 1 8 a-M. Marte PH 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .182 0 1 b-F. Dávila CF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Totals 35 4 10 4 2 8 20 a - M. Marte pinch hit for R. Chávez in the 9th b - F. Dávila substituted for M. Marte in the 9th BATTING Doubles: J. Soto (4, 2nd Inning off L. Cerda, 0 on, 2 outs) Home Runs: A. Castaneda (3, 6th Inning off J. García, 0 on, 0 outs) J. Rodríguez (2, 5th Inning off L. Cerda, 1 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: R. Chávez, J. Soto 2, A. Cuesta, A. Castaneda 4, H. Rodríguez, J. Rodríguez 5, S. Luján 2, M. Marte 2-out RBI: J. Rodríguez Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: E. Negrete, J. Soto, L. Torres, A. Castaneda GIDP: J. Rodríguez Sac Fly: A. Castaneda Team LOB: 9 BASERUNNING SB: H. Rodríguez (5) FIELDING Errors: A. Cuesta 2 (2)	Puerto Rico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Hernández 3B 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 .298 1 3 E. Medina LF 4 0 2 1 0 0 1 .280 0 6 R. Santos RF 3 0 1 2 0 1 1 .319 2 10 C. Gonzáles DH 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .080 1 4 L. Pérez C 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 .302 2 11 R. López 2B 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 .362 0 2 T. Carrasco SS 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 .163 0 0 A. Lozano 1B 3 0 0 0 1 1 3 .269 2 9 J. Sánchez CF 4 0 0 0 0 1 5 .167 0 0 Totals 33 3 9 3 1 5 16 BATTING Doubles: J. Hernández 2 (7, 5th Inning off C. Gonzáles, 0 on, 1 out; 7th Inning off A. Vázquez, 0 on, 0 outs) R. Santos (6, 3rd Inning off C. Gonzáles, 1 on, 1 out) C. Gonzáles (2, 2nd Inning off C. Gonzáles, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: J. Hernández 4, L. Pérez 2, E. Medina 2, R. López, R. Santos 2, C. Gonzáles 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: A. Lozano, J. Sánchez 2 Sac Bunt: R. López Sac Fly: R. Santos Team LOB: 7 BASERUNNING SB: J. Hernández (4) CS: E. Medina (1), R. Santos (2) FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Carrasco-López-Lozano)
Dominican Republic IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA C. Gonzáles 4.2 6 2 1 1 4 0 79 48 3.60 A. Vázquez W (1-0) 2.1 3 1 1 0 0 0 29 18 9.39 R. Díaz H (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 0.00 F. Villarreal H (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1.59 R. Lucero H (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 6.23 A. López SV (2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11 8 0.00 PITCHING Game Score: C. Gonzáles 49 Batters Faced: C. Gonzáles 21, A. Vázquez 10, R. Díaz 1, F. Villarreal 1, R. Lucero 1, A. López 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: C. Gonzáles 3-6, A. Vázquez 2-4, R. Díaz 1-0, F. Villarreal 0-1, R. Lucero 0-1, A. López 2-0 Pitches - Strikes: C. Gonzáles 79-48, A. Vázquez 29-18, R. Díaz 6-4, F. Villarreal 2-1, R. Lucero 5-4, A. López 11-8 Inherited Runners - Scored: A. Vázquez 1-0 WP: C. Gonzáles HB: A. Vázquez	Puerto Rico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA L. Cerda 5.0 4 2 2 2 3 1 81 44 4.32 J. García L (0-1) 1.2 5 2 2 0 4 1 43 28 5.73 J. Belderrian 2.1 1 0 0 0 1 0 24 20 10.24 PITCHING Game Score: L. Cerda 52 Batters Faced: L. Cerda 21, J. García 10, J. Belderrian 8 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: L. Cerda 3-8, J. García 0-1, J. Belderrian 1-5 Pitches - Strikes: L. Cerda 81-44, J. García 43-28, J. Belderrian 24-20 Inherited Runners - Scored: J. Belderrian 2-0 HB: L. Cerda
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: J. Rodríguez Ballpark: Ballpark of Colorado Weather: Rain (52 degrees), wind blowing right to left at 12 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 3:36 Attendance: 39683 Special Notes: Rain delay of 39 minutes in the 3rd inning.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 14:

Canada 13, England 2 - Pichette hits 2 more Home runs for Canada, upping his total to 6 thus far in the WBC.

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Friday, April 15th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Canada 0 3 2 0 3 0 2 3 0 13 15 1 England 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 2
Canada AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI S. Zhai LF 4 0 0 1 1 4 4 .254 1 5 J. Ledrew 2B 5 1 1 1 1 2 2 .356 1 10 D. Juteau 1B 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 .383 4 12 G. Pichette DH 4 3 2 3 2 0 1 .298 6 15 R. Roy SS 5 2 3 0 0 0 2 .241 0 3 C. LaRocque C 4 3 3 0 0 0 2 .390 1 1 J. Hardwick CF 5 2 2 2 0 0 4 .163 0 5 Y. Yang 3B 4 1 2 2 1 0 3 .261 0 5 J. Renouf RF 3 0 2 3 0 0 1 .500 1 8 a-T. Brisson PR, RF 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .467 1 4 Totals 40 13 15 12 6 7 21 a - T. Brisson pinch ran for J. Renouf in the 7th BATTING Doubles: C. LaRocque (7, 5th Inning off J. Collinge, 0 on, 1 out) J. Hardwick (3, 2nd Inning off D. Hasler, 2 on, 1 out) Y. Yang 2 (6, 7th Inning off M. Cranfield, 1 on, 1 out; 8th Inning off D. Mastin, 2 on, 2 outs) Home Runs: G. Pichette 2 (6, 3rd Inning off D. Hasler, 0 on, 1 out; 5th Inning off J. Collinge, 1 on, 0 outs) J. Ledrew (1, 3rd Inning off D. Hasler, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: G. Pichette 8, C. LaRocque 4, J. Hardwick 3, J. Renouf 2, J. Ledrew 4, R. Roy 3, Y. Yang 4 2-out RBI: J. Hardwick, J. Renouf, Y. Yang Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: G. Pichette, S. Zhai, Y. Yang, T. Brisson GIDP: J. Ledrew, R. Roy Sac Fly: J. Renouf, S. Zhai Team LOB: 10 FIELDING Errors: S. Zhai (2) Double Plays: 1 (Roy-Ledrew-Juteau)	England AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI C. MacIan LF 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 .239 2 6 M. Horsforth DH 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 .250 2 4 P. Blowey SS 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 .367 3 8 B. Prebble CF 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 .367 4 13 a-T. Merrell PH, CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .194 0 5 Q. Strode 3B 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 .361 3 18 b-M. Thomas PH, 3B 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .143 0 1 A. Gates 1B 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 .283 0 8 J. Blowey 2B 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 .227 2 4 M. Blatherwick RF 4 0 0 1 0 1 2 .273 1 4 D. Allcock C 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 .213 1 7 Totals 31 2 6 2 2 7 15 a - T. Merrell pinch hit for B. Prebble in the 8th b - M. Thomas pinch hit for Q. Strode in the 8th BATTING Doubles: M. Horsforth (4, 6th Inning off R. Klassen, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: P. Blowey 2, Q. Strode, B. Prebble, D. Allcock, M. Horsforth 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: C. MacIan, D. Allcock, M. Thomas GIDP: Q. Strode Sac Fly: B. Prebble Team LOB: 6 FIELDING Errors: P. Blowey 2 (2) Double Plays: 2 (Hasler-Blowey-Gates, Blowey-Gates)
Canada IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA R. Klassen W (1-1) 9.0 6 2 2 2 7 0 129 80 6.20 PITCHING Game Score: R. Klassen 72 Batters Faced: R. Klassen 35 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: R. Klassen 9-10 Pitches - Strikes: R. Klassen 129-80 WP: R. Klassen HB: R. Klassen	England IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA D. Hasler L (0-2) 2.1 5 5 3 1 1 2 44 25 15.43 J. Collinge 2.1 5 3 3 2 2 1 55 29 8.31 M. Cranfield 2.0 2 2 2 2 1 0 35 25 6.75 D. Mastin 1.0 3 3 3 1 1 0 22 13 6.48 T. Loxton 1.1 0 0 0 0 2 0 16 11 4.20 PITCHING Game Score: D. Hasler 27 Batters Faced: D. Hasler 13, J. Collinge 14, M. Cranfield 10, D. Mastin 7, T. Loxton 5 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: D. Hasler 2-3, J. Collinge 3-2, M. Cranfield 1-3, D. Mastin 0-2, T. Loxton 1-1 Pitches - Strikes: D. Hasler 44-25, J. Collinge 55-29, M. Cranfield 35-25, D. Mastin 22-13, T. Loxton 16-11 Inherited Runners - Scored: M. Cranfield 2-0, D. Mastin 1-0, T. Loxton 1-0 HB: M. Cranfield
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: G. Pichette Ballpark: Ballpark of Boston Weather: Partly Cloudy (43 degrees), wind blowing in from left at 12 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 3:10 Attendance: 39664

[Alan T]

WBC Day 14:

Cuba 4, Japan 3 - Cuba gets home runs from Alex Quinones, Pepillo Garza and Jose Munoz to clinch their first trip ever to the FOOL WBC Semi-finals!

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Friday, April 15th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Japan 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 6 0 Cuba 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 X 4 6 0
Japan AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Higashi LF 4 1 1 1 0 1 2 .232 1 10 T. Sanu DH 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 .367 0 4 E. Watanabe 3B 3 1 0 0 1 1 1 .298 2 12 H. Okamoto RF 4 1 1 1 0 2 2 .311 5 12 Y. Adachi CF 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 .238 3 8 D. Ikeda 1B 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 .236 3 8 K. Matsumoto 2B 4 0 0 0 0 1 5 .219 0 3 T. Nishikawa SS 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 .212 1 4 T. Ito C 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 .157 1 1 Totals 32 3 6 3 2 10 13 BATTING Home Runs: H. Okamoto (5, 8th Inning off T. Espinosa, 0 on, 1 out) H. Higashi (1, 7th Inning off T. Espinosa, 0 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: H. Okamoto 4, H. Higashi 4, T. Sanu, T. Ito, D. Ikeda, Y. Adachi 2-out RBI: H. Higashi, D. Ikeda Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: T. Sanu, K. Matsumoto 2 GIDP: H. Higashi Team LOB: 6	Cuba AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Serrea RF 4 1 1 0 0 1 3 .305 0 4 J. Villa SS 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 .356 0 4 Á. Quiñones 3B 4 1 1 1 0 1 1 .281 2 8 P. Garza CF 4 1 1 1 0 1 0 .310 3 15 J. Muñóz DH 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 .224 4 14 H. Martínez 2B 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 .286 1 6 M. Valenzuela LF 4 0 1 0 0 1 2 .298 1 6 L. Santana 1B 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 .250 3 9 a-Á. Valadez 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 1 5 A. Coutreras C 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 .256 2 7 Totals 30 4 6 4 3 6 8 a - Á. Valadez substituted for L. Santana in the 9th BATTING Doubles: M. Valenzuela (6, 3rd Inning off N. Ichihara, 0 on, 2 outs) Triples: J. Serrea (1, 1st Inning off N. Ichihara, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: P. Garza (3, 3rd Inning off N. Ichihara, 0 on, 1 out) Á. Quiñones (2, 3rd Inning off N. Ichihara, 0 on, 1 out) J. Muñóz (4, 3rd Inning off N. Ichihara, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: P. Garza 4, Á. Quiñones 4, M. Valenzuela 2, J. Serrea 3, J. Muñóz 4, H. Martínez Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: L. Santana, J. Serrea Team LOB: 6 FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Villa-Martínez-Santana)
Japan IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA N. Ichihara L (1-2) 7.0 6 4 4 3 6 3 112 68 7.98 Y. Murakami 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 9 4.00 PITCHING Game Score: N. Ichihara 52 Batters Faced: N. Ichihara 31, Y. Murakami 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: N. Ichihara 8-7, Y. Murakami 1-2 Pitches - Strikes: N. Ichihara 112-68, Y. Murakami 11-9 HB: N. Ichihara	Cuba IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA F. Borges W (3-0) 6.1 4 1 1 2 7 0 117 72 3.60 T. Espinosa H (2) 1.0 2 2 2 0 1 2 14 10 12.79 O. García SV (1) 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 0 16 11 3.27 PITCHING Game Score: F. Borges 66 Batters Faced: F. Borges 26, T. Espinosa 5, O. García 5 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: F. Borges 3-8, T. Espinosa 0-2, O. García 1-2 Pitches - Strikes: F. Borges 117-72, T. Espinosa 14-10, O. García 16-11 HB: F. Borges 2
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: F. Borges Ballpark: Charm Ballpark Weather: Partly Cloudy (41 degrees), wind blowing out to left at 10 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 2:44 Attendance: 39863

[Alan T]

WBC Day 14:

Dominican Republic 11, Puerto Rico 9 (13 innings) - Hector Rodriguez and Juan Rodriguez hit back to back Solo Home Runs in the top of the 13th to win the game for the D.R.

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Friday, April 15th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 R H E Dominican Republic 3 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 14 0 Puerto Rico 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 14 2
Dominican Republic AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Rodríguez LF 6 3 3 3 1 0 0 .310 3 8 J. Rodríguez 2B 7 2 5 1 0 0 0 .333 3 10 S. Luján 1B 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 .304 4 4 A. Castaneda DH 6 1 1 1 1 0 7 .173 4 10 E. Negrete 3B 6 1 1 1 0 1 6 .200 0 4 A. Cuesta C 5 1 1 1 1 2 1 .304 0 3 J. Soto SS 4 1 2 1 0 1 0 .279 0 9 a-M. Marte PH, SS 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 .154 0 1 L. Torres RF 6 1 1 1 0 0 3 .216 0 6 R. Chávez CF 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 .182 1 9 b-J. González PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 0 1 c-F. Dávila CF 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 0 0 Totals 51 11 14 10 4 7 20 a - M. Marte pinch hit for J. Soto in the 10th b - J. González pinch hit for R. Chávez in the 10th c - F. Dávila substituted for J. González in the 10th BATTING Doubles: E. Negrete (5, 3rd Inning off J. Sosa, 0 on, 0 outs) J. Rodríguez (3, 1st Inning off J. Sosa, 1 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: A. Castaneda (4, 3rd Inning off J. Sosa, 0 on, 0 outs) H. Rodríguez 2 (3, 3rd Inning off J. Belderrian, 1 on, 1 out; 13th Inning off R. Abanto, 0 on, 1 out) J. Rodríguez (3, 13th Inning off R. Abanto, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: E. Negrete 2, J. Soto 2, L. Torres, A. Cuesta, A. Castaneda 4, H. Rodríguez 9, J. Rodríguez 9 2-out RBI: A. Cuesta Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: E. Negrete, L. Torres, S. Luján Sac Fly: R. Chávez, E. Negrete Team LOB: 9 BASERUNNING CS: J. Rodríguez (1) FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Ramos-Soto-Luján)	Puerto Rico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Hernández 3B 5 0 1 1 1 3 3 .288 1 4 S. Dávila CF 6 2 2 1 1 1 3 .298 0 4 R. Santos RF 6 1 3 1 1 1 0 .340 2 11 C. Gonzáles DH 4 0 0 0 1 1 5 .074 1 4 c-C. Williams PR, DH 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 .000 0 0 L. Pérez C 6 2 4 4 0 1 0 .339 3 15 T. Carrasco SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .152 0 0 a-E. Medina PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .275 0 6 b-F. Solís SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 0 0 J. Sánchez LF 5 2 2 2 0 0 0 .235 1 2 A. Lozano 1B 6 0 0 0 0 1 2 .241 2 9 R. López 2B 5 1 2 0 0 2 0 .365 0 2 Totals 51 9 14 9 4 11 17 a - E. Medina pinch hit for T. Carrasco in the 8th b - F. Solís substituted for E. Medina in the 9th c - C. Williams pinch ran for C. Gonzáles in the 9th BATTING Doubles: L. Pérez 3 (7, 8th Inning off A. Vázquez, 0 on, 0 outs; 9th Inning off R. Lucero, 1 on, 2 outs; 11th Inning off R. Lucero, 0 on, 2 outs) S. Dávila (3, 5th Inning off A. Ramos, 1 on, 2 outs) Home Runs: L. Pérez (3, 4th Inning off A. Ramos, 2 on, 2 outs) J. Sánchez (1, 6th Inning off A. Vázquez, 0 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: J. Hernández, L. Pérez 10, R. López 2, R. Santos 3, J. Sánchez 5, S. Dávila 3 2-out RBI: , L. Pérez 2, R. Santos, J. Sánchez, S. Dávila Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: J. Hernández, C. Gonzáles, S. Dávila, F. Solís 2 GIDP: S. Dávila Sac Fly: J. Hernández Team LOB: 10 FIELDING Errors: J. Mazariegos (1), J. Sánchez (2)
Dominican Republic IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Ramos 4.2 4 6 6 2 3 1 67 41 10.93 A. Vázquez 2.1 5 2 2 0 1 1 42 28 9.00 R. Díaz H (2) 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 18 11 0.00 F. Villarreal H (2) 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1.59 R. Lucero BS (1) 3.1 3 1 1 2 3 0 52 31 5.25 A. López W (1-0) 2.0 1 0 0 0 4 0 34 24 0.00 PITCHING Game Score: A. Ramos 33 Batters Faced: A. Ramos 20, A. Vázquez 12, R. Díaz 3, F. Villarreal 1, R. Lucero 15, A. López 7 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Ramos 5-5, A. Vázquez 4-2, R. Díaz 1-1, F. Villarreal 0-0, R. Lucero 3-4, A. López 1-1 Pitches - Strikes: A. Ramos 67-41, A. Vázquez 42-28, R. Díaz 18-11, F. Villarreal 5-3, R. Lucero 52-31, A. López 34-24 Inherited Runners - Scored: A. Vázquez 1-1, R. Díaz 1-1, F. Villarreal 1-0, R. Lucero 2-0 HB: A. Ramos, F. Villarreal	Puerto Rico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Sosa 2.0 8 7 7 3 0 1 50 28 12.79 J. Belderrian 2.1 3 2 2 0 2 1 41 26 9.75 J. Mazariegos 3.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 40 5.68 J. García 3.1 1 0 0 0 3 0 36 28 4.40 R. Abanto L (0-2) 1.0 2 2 2 0 1 2 20 13 12.00 J. Rodríguez 0.2 0 0 0 1 1 0 13 6 10.29 PITCHING Game Score: J. Sosa 5 Batters Faced: J. Sosa 16, J. Belderrian 10, J. Mazariegos 13, J. García 12, R. Abanto 5, J. Rodríguez 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: J. Sosa 2-3, J. Belderrian 0-5, J. Mazariegos 3-8, J. García 1-6, R. Abanto 0-2, J. Rodríguez 0-1 Pitches - Strikes: J. Sosa 50-28, J. Belderrian 41-26, J. Mazariegos 54-40, J. García 36-28, R. Abanto 20-13, J. Rodríguez 13-6 Inherited Runners - Scored: J. Belderrian 2-2, J. García 1-0 WP: J. Sosa, J. Belderrian HB: J. Mazariegos, J. García
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: L. Pérez Ballpark: Ballpark of Colorado Weather: Partly Cloudy (48 degrees), wind blowing in from center at 12 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 4:38 Attendance: 39700

[Alan T]

Rodríguez Goes 5-7
Dominican Republic second baseman Juan Rodríguez had the hot hand today in the game against the Puerto Rico at Ballpark of Colorado. He scorched Puerto Rico pitching for 5 hits and paced the Dominican Republic to a 11-9 victory.

J. Rodríguez doubled in the 1st, singled in the 2nd, singled in the 3rd, grounded out in the 6th, grounded out in the 8th, singled in the 11th and hit a solo-shot off R. Abanto in the 13th.

In 13 games this year Rodríguez has posted a .333 average and put up these numbers: 3 home runs, 10 RBIs and 8 runs scored.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 14:

USA 8, Mexico 2 - Sergio Calderon pitches a complete game, giving up only 2 runs on 8 hits for the win.

Spoiler

Friday, April 15th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Mexico 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 8 0 USA 2 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 X 8 13 0
Mexico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. García RF 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 .340 2 5 N. Matos DH 4 1 2 1 0 1 3 .323 1 7 J. Moreno LF 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 .277 3 17 F. García CF 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 .271 2 10 A. Cardenas 3B 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 .280 3 13 J. Rivera 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .333 0 11 C. Cantú 2B 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 .200 0 5 A. Ruíz SS 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 .167 2 7 A. Torres C 4 0 2 0 0 2 0 .240 5 10 Totals 33 2 8 2 1 7 12 BATTING Doubles: F. García (7, 6th Inning off S. Calderón, 0 on, 1 out) A. Cardenas (1, 6th Inning off S. Calderón, 1 on, 1 out) Home Runs: N. Matos (1, 1st Inning off S. Calderón, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: F. García 2, N. Matos 5, C. Cantú, A. Torres 2, A. Cardenas 3 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: N. Matos, A. Ruíz GIDP: C. Cantú, A. Ruíz Team LOB: 8	USA AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. Tomlinson LF 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 .178 2 6 X. Jiménez 3B 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 .326 3 15 a-C. Murphy PH, 3B 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 .600 1 3 H. Thompson DH 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 .404 5 18 F. Dawson 1B 4 0 2 2 0 0 2 .291 4 15 T. Jones C 4 1 2 3 0 2 2 .326 5 19 C. Peña CF 3 1 1 0 1 1 2 .241 1 3 W. Shaw RF 4 0 1 1 0 1 3 .476 1 5 E. López SS 4 1 2 1 0 1 1 .302 4 6 M. Griffith 2B 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 .354 1 9 Totals 34 8 13 8 1 7 14 a - C. Murphy pinch hit for X. Jiménez in the 7th BATTING Doubles: F. Dawson (2, 7th Inning off M. González, 2 on, 1 out) Triples: C. Peña (1, 4th Inning off J. Álvarez, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: T. Jones (5, 4th Inning off J. Álvarez, 0 on, 0 outs) E. López (4, 7th Inning off R. Rosa, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: C. Peña 3, A. Tomlinson, X. Jiménez, M. Griffith, T. Jones 5, H. Thompson, F. Dawson 3, W. Shaw, E. López 5, C. Murphy 2-out RBI: T. Jones Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: C. Peña, W. Shaw Sac Fly: H. Thompson Team LOB: 5 BASERUNNING CS: M. Griffith (4) FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (López-Griffith-Dawson, Jiménez-Griffith-Dawson)
Mexico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Álvarez L (0-2) 3.0 6 4 4 1 1 1 50 30 18.78 R. Rosa 3.0 3 2 2 0 4 1 51 34 7.36 M. González 0.1 3 2 2 0 0 0 20 14 7.24 S. Gonzáles 1.2 1 0 0 0 2 0 27 17 4.63 PITCHING Game Score: J. Álvarez 29 Batters Faced: J. Álvarez 16, R. Rosa 11, M. González 4, S. Gonzáles 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: J. Álvarez 4-3, R. Rosa 1-3, M. González 0-1, S. Gonzáles 1-2 Pitches - Strikes: J. Álvarez 50-30, R. Rosa 51-34, M. González 20-14, S. Gonzáles 27-17 Inherited Runners - Scored: R. Rosa 1-0, M. González 1-1, S. Gonzáles 1-0 WP: S. Gonzáles HB: J. Álvarez	USA IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA S. Calderón W (3-0) 9.0 8 2 2 1 7 1 120 80 3.80 PITCHING Game Score: S. Calderón 69 Batters Faced: S. Calderón 36 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: S. Calderón 4-14 Pitches - Strikes: S. Calderón 120-80 HB: S. Calderón 2
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: S. Calderón Ballpark: Ann Arbor Grounds Weather: Partly Cloudy (48 degrees), wind blowing out to center at 11 mph Start Time: 7:05 pm Time: 2:46 Attendance: 39940

[Chief Rum]

You know, this is something I had put some thought into back when I had first brought up the WBC possibility (before you went and run with it, and a fine job you have done, BTW).

And that would be boistering some teams by making them "regions".

The US, Cuba, Canada and Japan don't seem to need any help fielding very good teams. Mexico and England are usually "okay". The DR and PR are in tough spots, and we end up leaving a lot of good players from other nationalities out (something you tried to fix a little with the "play in").

I was thinking that stronger overall teams could be put together if let's say, England, changed to "Europe and former English territories", so you can add any off chance Dutch or Italian baseball players, let's say, as well as maybe South African or Australian.

You could combine the PR and DR, along with the various other Carribean island nations (not including Cuba), and call it the Carribean region.

I did that, incidentally, in the game, setting up a filter, and the team that put up would be much more competitive in the current tournament.

With Mexico needing a little bolster (but not much), let them add Central American teams, and call it "Central America". That would give them Betancourt and Zuniga, of course.

I often see South American nationalities, and wonder if a good team can be put forward of just South American nations.

I don't know how to handle Taiwan/China/Korean (would adding them to Japan make Japan too strong?). But I would love to see them in the mix as well.

This could be done, with the South America team replacing the now missing second DR/PR team, and it could be a consistently strong field all the way around.

Not saying the way it is now isn't fine; I love it as is. But I think it would be fun to see something like this, too.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 15:

Cuba 14, Japan 10 - Pepillo Garza goes 2 for 4 with a HR and 4 RBI in the win for Cuba.

Spoiler

Saturday, April 16th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Japan 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 10 9 0 Cuba 3 5 2 0 1 0 0 3 X 14 13 0
Japan AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI D. Ikeda 1B 5 1 1 2 1 3 2 .233 4 10 T. Sanu 2B 3 2 1 0 2 0 1 .365 0 4 H. Okamoto DH 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .306 5 12 a-M. Sugimoto DH 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 .321 0 0 E. Watanabe 3B 3 1 2 2 2 1 0 .317 2 14 H. Higashi LF 4 1 1 2 1 1 4 .233 1 12 Y. Adachi CF 3 2 0 0 2 2 2 .222 3 8 K. Yamada RF 5 0 1 1 0 1 1 .200 0 2 T. Nishikawa SS 5 1 3 2 0 0 0 .263 1 6 T. Ito C 4 0 0 1 0 2 4 .145 1 2 Totals 35 10 9 10 9 12 15 a - M. Sugimoto substituted for H. Okamoto in the 1st BATTING Doubles: E. Watanabe (7, 2nd Inning off E. Gallegos, 2 on, 2 outs) T. Sanu (5, 9th Inning off T. Espinosa, 0 on, 1 out) T. Nishikawa (3, 8th Inning off A. Colón, 0 on, 2 outs) Home Runs: D. Ikeda (4, 2nd Inning off E. Gallegos, 1 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: E. Watanabe 3, H. Higashi, T. Sanu 2, K. Yamada, D. Ikeda 4, T. Nishikawa 4 2-out RBI: E. Watanabe, D. Ikeda Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , H. Higashi 2, T. Ito, D. Ikeda, Y. Adachi Sac Fly: T. Ito Team LOB: 9 FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Nishikawa-Sanu-Ikeda)	Cuba AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Serrea RF 3 4 1 0 3 1 0 .306 0 4 J. Villa SS 3 3 2 3 1 0 0 .371 0 7 Á. Quiñones 3B 4 1 1 2 0 1 5 .279 2 10 P. Garza CF 4 1 2 4 0 1 1 .323 4 19 J. Muñóz DH 5 1 2 1 0 1 2 .238 4 15 H. Martínez 2B 4 1 3 1 1 0 0 .326 1 7 M. Valenzuela LF 4 0 1 0 0 0 6 .295 1 6 L. Santana 1B 4 1 0 0 1 1 5 .222 3 9 A. Coutreras C 4 2 1 3 1 1 1 .255 3 10 Totals 35 14 13 14 7 6 20 BATTING Doubles: J. Villa (8, 1st Inning off K. Mori, 1 on, 0 outs) Á. Quiñones (2, 1st Inning off K. Mori, 1 on, 0 outs) J. Serrea (4, 1st Inning off K. Mori, 0 on, 0 outs) Triples: J. Villa (1, 3rd Inning off T. Mizutani, 1 on, 1 out) Home Runs: P. Garza (4, 2nd Inning off K. Mori, 3 on, 1 out) A. Coutreras (3, 8th Inning off T. Matsui, 2 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: P. Garza 5, J. Villa 5, Á. Quiñones 2, M. Valenzuela, J. Serrea 2, A. Coutreras 4, J. Muñóz 2, H. Martínez 3 2-out RBI: A. Coutreras, J. Muñóz, H. Martínez Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: L. Santana, M. Valenzuela GIDP: Á. Quiñones Sac Fly: Á. Quiñones Team LOB: 8
Japan IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA K. Mori L (0-3) 1.1 5 8 8 4 2 1 59 31 23.76 T. Mizutani 2.2 4 3 3 2 1 0 58 33 6.92 N. Ishii 3.0 2 0 0 0 2 0 47 31 7.50 T. Matsui 0.2 2 3 3 1 1 1 15 8 7.11 R. Ine 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 1.69 PITCHING Game Score: K. Mori 4 Batters Faced: K. Mori 13, T. Mizutani 16, N. Ishii 11, T. Matsui 5, R. Ine 1 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: K. Mori 1-1, T. Mizutani 3-4, N. Ishii 3-3, T. Matsui 0-1, R. Ine 0-1 Pitches - Strikes: K. Mori 59-31, T. Mizutani 58-33, N. Ishii 47-31, T. Matsui 15-8, R. Ine 7-4 Inherited Runners - Scored: N. Ishii 2-1 HB: T. Mizutani 2, N. Ishii	Cuba IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA E. Gallegos 1.2 4 5 5 4 1 1 58 33 15.58 J. Torres W (1-0) 4.1 0 0 0 1 7 0 52 35 1.50 A. Colón 2.0 1 0 0 2 3 0 35 18 1.59 T. Espinosa 1.0 4 5 5 2 1 0 42 23 17.18 PITCHING Game Score: E. Gallegos 18 Batters Faced: E. Gallegos 13, J. Torres 14, A. Colón 9, T. Espinosa 10 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: E. Gallegos 2-2, J. Torres 5-1, A. Colón 1-2, T. Espinosa 0-2 Pitches - Strikes: E. Gallegos 58-33, J. Torres 52-35, A. Colón 35-18, T. Espinosa 42-23 Inherited Runners - Scored: J. Torres 1-0 WP: T. Espinosa HB: T. Espinosa
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: P. Garza Ballpark: Charm Ballpark Weather: Partly Cloudy (54 degrees), wind blowing in from center at 10 mph Start Time: 1:05 pm Time: 4:01 Attendance: 39751 Special Notes: Hitomaro 'Lurch' Okamoto was ejected in the 1st inning for arguing a strike call.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

You know, this is something I had put some thought into back when I had first brought up the WBC possibility (before you went and run with it, and a fine job you have done, BTW).

And that would be boistering some teams by making them "regions".

The US, Cuba, Canada and Japan don't seem to need any help fielding very good teams. Mexico and England are usually "okay". The DR and PR are in tough spots, and we end up leaving a lot of good players from other nationalities out (something you tried to fix a little with the "play in").

I was thinking that stronger overall teams could be put together if let's say, England, changed to "Europe and former English territories", so you can add any off chance Dutch or Italian baseball players, let's say, as well as maybe South African or Australian.

You could combine the PR and DR, along with the various other Carribean island nations (not including Cuba), and call it the Carribean region.

I did that, incidentally, in the game, setting up a filter, and the team that put up would be much more competitive in the current tournament.

With Mexico needing a little bolster (but not much), let them add Central American teams, and call it "Central America". That would give them Betancourt and Zuniga, of course.

I often see South American nationalities, and wonder if a good team can be put forward of just South American nations.

I don't know how to handle Taiwan/China/Korean (would adding them to Japan make Japan too strong?). But I would love to see them in the mix as well.

This could be done, with the South America team replacing the now missing second DR/PR team, and it could be a consistently strong field all the way around.

Not saying the way it is now isn't fine; I love it as is. But I think it would be fun to see something like this, too.

I like that idea, and it would be "doable", but it would require a lot more manual involvement in setting up the teams then how I do it now. OOTP has the ability to limit teams to only pick players from that team's "country" so I can actually let the AI pick the national teams for all of these teams. OOTP doesn't have any knowledge of regions per say so setting up teams like that would require all manual involvement there.

Probably would cross that line of more work than I have time for type of thing unfortunately.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 15:

Canada 7, England 6 - Justin Ledrew hits a solo shot, followed by a RBI double from Ryan Roy and RBI double from Christophe LaRocque in the 9th inning as 3 runs help Canada complete the come back and clinch a spot in the Semi-finals!

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Saturday, April 16th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Canada 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 7 18 0 England 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 15 1
Canada AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI S. Zhai LF 5 0 2 1 0 0 2 .266 1 6 J. Ledrew 2B 5 1 1 1 0 0 4 .344 2 11 G. Pichette DH 5 1 3 0 0 0 3 .323 6 15 R. Roy SS 4 2 2 2 0 1 3 .259 0 5 C. LaRocque C 4 0 1 1 1 0 3 .378 1 2 J. Hardwick CF 4 1 3 1 1 1 0 .208 0 6 L. Terry 1B 4 0 1 0 0 1 4 .143 0 0 c-T. Brisson PH 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 .438 1 4 d-M. Carrier 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 Y. Yang 3B 5 1 2 0 0 0 4 .275 0 5 R. Didkowsky RF 3 1 3 1 0 0 0 .353 0 2 a-D. Juteau PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .375 4 12 b-J. Renouf RF 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 .484 1 8 Totals 42 7 18 7 2 5 28 a - D. Juteau pinch hit for R. Didkowsky in the 8th b - J. Renouf substituted for D. Juteau in the 8th c - T. Brisson pinch hit for L. Terry in the 9th d - M. Carrier substituted for T. Brisson in the 9th BATTING Doubles: G. Pichette (3, 9th Inning off D. Eddie, 0 on, 0 outs) C. LaRocque (8, 9th Inning off D. Eddie, 1 on, 0 outs) L. Terry (2, 8th Inning off B. Lewthwaite, 0 on, 0 outs) R. Roy 2 (5, 4th Inning off A. Yard, 0 on, 0 outs; 9th Inning off D. Eddie, 1 on, 0 outs) Y. Yang (7, 6th Inning off A. Yard, 1 on, 1 out) Home Runs: J. Ledrew (2, 9th Inning off D. Eddie, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: G. Pichette 4, C. LaRocque 2, J. Hardwick 3, J. Ledrew 4, L. Terry 2, S. Zhai 2, R. Roy 4, Y. Yang 3, R. Didkowsky 3 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , G. Pichette 2, C. LaRocque, J. Ledrew, Y. Yang, J. Renouf GIDP: L. Terry Sac Fly: R. Roy Team LOB: 11 BASERUNNING SB: S. Zhai (8) FIELDING Double Plays: 3 (Roy-Ledrew-Terry, Roy-Ledrew-Terry, Yang-Ledrew-Terry)	England AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI C. MacIan LF 6 1 2 0 0 1 6 .247 2 6 M. Horsforth DH 4 1 1 4 0 0 0 .250 2 8 P. Blowey SS 3 0 2 1 0 1 2 .385 3 9 B. Prebble CF 3 0 0 0 2 0 3 .346 4 13 Q. Strode 3B 4 0 0 0 1 1 4 .338 3 18 A. Gates 1B 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 .294 0 8 a-M. Blatherwick PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .273 1 4 M. Silcock 2B 5 0 3 0 0 1 2 .333 0 0 T. Merrell RF 4 2 2 0 1 1 3 .229 0 5 D. Allcock C 4 2 3 1 0 0 2 .255 1 8 b-J. Blowey PH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .227 2 4 Totals 38 6 15 6 4 5 22 a - M. Blatherwick pinch ran for A. Gates in the 9th b - J. Blowey pinch hit for D. Allcock in the 9th BATTING Doubles: P. Blowey (5, 4th Inning off F. Théberge, 0 on, 2 outs) D. Allcock 2 (4, 4th Inning off F. Théberge, 1 on, 0 outs; 5th Inning off F. Théberge, 1 on, 2 outs) T. Merrell (1, 4th Inning off F. Théberge, 0 on, 0 outs) Triples: M. Horsforth (2, 3rd Inning off F. Théberge, 3 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: P. Blowey 3, C. MacIan 2, A. Gates 2, M. Silcock 3, D. Allcock 5, T. Merrell 3, M. Horsforth 3 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , C. MacIan 2, Q. Strode, M. Silcock GIDP: Q. Strode, B. Prebble, D. Allcock Sac Fly: P. Blowey Team LOB: 16 FIELDING Errors: M. Silcock (5) Double Plays: 1 (Strode-Silcock-Gates)
Canada IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA F. Théberge 6.0 11 6 6 3 4 0 114 69 8.10 D. MacLeod W (1-1) 2.0 2 0 0 1 1 0 34 22 2.08 R. Gunter SV (3) 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 10 6.35 PITCHING Game Score: F. Théberge 27 Batters Faced: F. Théberge 32, D. MacLeod 8, R. Gunter 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: F. Théberge 7-6, D. MacLeod 3-0, R. Gunter 0-3 Pitches - Strikes: F. Théberge 114-69, D. MacLeod 34-22, R. Gunter 16-10 WP: F. Théberge HB: F. Théberge, D. MacLeod, R. Gunter	England IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Yard 5.2 12 4 4 1 1 0 105 73 4.15 B. Lewthwaite H (1) 1.2 1 0 0 0 2 0 33 20 3.72 D. Mastin H (1) 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 6.00 D. Eddie L (0-2)BS (1) 1.0 4 3 3 1 2 1 29 16 7.45 PITCHING Game Score: A. Yard 29 Batters Faced: A. Yard 28, B. Lewthwaite 6, D. Mastin 3, D. Eddie 8 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Yard 4-10, B. Lewthwaite 1-1, D. Mastin 0-2, D. Eddie 0-1 Pitches - Strikes: A. Yard 105-73, B. Lewthwaite 33-20, D. Mastin 5-4, D. Eddie 29-16 Inherited Runners - Scored: B. Lewthwaite 1-0
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: M. Horsforth Ballpark: Ballpark of Boston Weather: Partly Cloudy (49 degrees), wind blowing out to center at 13 mph Start Time: 1:05 pm Time: 3:27 Attendance: 39792

[Alan T]

WBC Day 15:

Puerto Rico 8, Dominican Republic 6 - Jorge Hernandez goes 3 for 5 with a HR and 3 RBI in the win for Puerto Rico

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Saturday, April 16th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dominican Republic 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 6 10 0 Puerto Rico 0 0 3 0 0 2 3 0 X 8 15 0
Dominican Republic AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Rodríguez LF 2 3 2 2 0 0 0 .333 4 10 J. Rodríguez 2B 4 0 2 1 0 0 4 .344 3 11 S. Luján 1B 4 0 0 0 1 1 4 .283 4 4 A. Castaneda DH 3 0 1 2 2 1 0 .182 4 12 E. Negrete 3B 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 .183 0 4 A. Cuesta C 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 .294 0 3 J. Soto SS 2 2 1 0 2 1 0 .289 0 9 a-M. Marte PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .143 0 1 L. Torres RF 4 1 2 0 0 0 2 .236 0 6 R. Chávez CF 4 0 1 0 0 1 3 .188 1 9 Totals 34 6 10 5 5 4 20 a - M. Marte pinch hit for J. Soto in the 9th BATTING Home Runs: H. Rodríguez (4, 8th Inning off J. Mazariegos, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: R. Chávez, J. Soto, L. Torres 2, A. Cuesta, A. Castaneda, H. Rodríguez 5, J. Rodríguez 2 2-out RBI: , A. Castaneda 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: E. Negrete, A. Cuesta, J. Rodríguez, S. Luján GIDP: R. Chávez, S. Luján Sac Fly: J. Rodríguez Team LOB: 11 BASERUNNING SB: J. Soto (1)	Puerto Rico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Hernández 3B 5 2 3 3 0 1 1 .316 2 7 E. Medina LF 5 1 2 1 0 1 1 .286 0 7 R. Santos RF 4 0 1 0 1 2 3 .333 2 11 C. Gonzáles DH 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 .121 1 4 L. Pérez C 4 1 0 0 1 0 5 .317 3 15 R. López 2B 5 0 1 2 0 0 1 .351 0 4 T. Carrasco SS 4 1 2 1 0 1 1 .180 0 1 A. Lozano 1B 3 2 2 1 1 0 2 .262 2 10 S. Dávila CF 4 0 1 0 0 2 3 .294 0 4 Totals 38 8 15 8 3 7 17 BATTING Doubles: A. Lozano 2 (9, 2nd Inning off A. De La Cruz, 0 on, 2 outs; 7th Inning off T. Fernández, 1 on, 1 out) C. Gonzáles (3, 5th Inning off A. De La Cruz, 0 on, 0 outs) Triples: T. Carrasco (1, 7th Inning off T. Fernández, 0 on, 1 out) Home Runs: J. Hernández (2, 6th Inning off A. De La Cruz, 1 on, 1 out) Total Bases: J. Hernández 6, E. Medina 2, R. López, A. Lozano 4, T. Carrasco 4, R. Santos, C. Gonzáles 4, S. Dávila 2-out RBI: J. Hernández, E. Medina, R. López, T. Carrasco Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , L. Pérez 2, A. Lozano, T. Carrasco, S. Dávila Team LOB: 10 BASERUNNING SB: E. Medina (2) CS: J. Hernández (4) FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (Martínez-López-Lozano, Carrasco-López-Lozano)
Dominican Republic IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. De La Cruz 5.1 9 5 5 3 5 1 96 59 9.72 T. Fernández L (0-1) 2.2 6 3 3 0 2 0 56 34 12.00 PITCHING Game Score: A. De La Cruz 32 Batters Faced: A. De La Cruz 28, T. Fernández 14 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. De La Cruz 3-7, T. Fernández 2-4 Pitches - Strikes: A. De La Cruz 96-59, T. Fernández 56-34 HB: A. De La Cruz	Puerto Rico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA C. Martínez 5.2 7 5 5 5 0 0 102 60 12.10 J. Mazariegos W (1-0) 2.1 2 1 1 0 4 1 35 23 5.40 R. Abanto SV (3) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 10 9.00 PITCHING Game Score: C. Martínez 30 Batters Faced: C. Martínez 31, J. Mazariegos 9, R. Abanto 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: C. Martínez 10-5, J. Mazariegos 0-3, R. Abanto 1-2 Pitches - Strikes: C. Martínez 102-60, J. Mazariegos 35-23, R. Abanto 17-10 Inherited Runners - Scored: J. Mazariegos 3-0 WP: C. Martínez HB: C. Martínez 4
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: J. Hernández Ballpark: Ballpark of Colorado Weather: Partly Cloudy (54 degrees), wind blowing right to left at 15 mph Start Time: 1:05 pm Time: 3:09 Attendance: 39975

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I like that idea, and it would be "doable", but it would require a lot more manual involvement in setting up the teams then how I do it now. OOTP has the ability to limit teams to only pick players from that team's "country" so I can actually let the AI pick the national teams for all of these teams. OOTP doesn't have any knowledge of regions per say so setting up teams like that would require all manual involvement there.

Probably would cross that line of more work than I have time for type of thing unfortunately.

Too bad. I think it would be fun if we could. I set up filters in my game, so I could see what the pools would look like, and they look pretty good for most of these, although we would need to do something different for the South American team--there are some players there, but it would easily be the worst entry.

I guess there is no "filtered" way for the AI to pick from a pool? Bummer.

[Montreal_GM]

Damn. I was hoping to see how Aitken did in the US rotation but he didn't make the cut.

Were the 3 teams Canada, USA, DR? This might have been answered already as I haven't got to the end of the thread yet.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 15:

USA 8, Mexico 7 (10 innings) - Adrian Tomlinson hits a RBI double in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Team USA the victory.

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Saturday, April 16th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E Mexico 2 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 7 10 1 USA 3 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 8 14 1
Mexico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. García RF 4 1 1 0 1 1 2 .333 2 5 a-R. Rodríguez RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 N. Matos DH 5 0 1 0 0 1 3 .313 1 7 J. Moreno LF 5 1 2 0 0 0 2 .286 3 17 F. García CF 5 1 1 1 0 1 2 .266 2 11 A. Cardenas 3B 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 .283 4 15 J. Rivera 1B 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 .346 0 12 C. Cantú 2B 2 1 0 0 3 1 1 .191 0 5 A. Ruíz SS 4 0 1 1 0 0 5 .182 2 8 b-J. Muñóz PH, SS 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .154 1 7 A. Torres C 4 0 1 1 0 1 2 .241 5 11 Totals 37 7 10 6 5 7 18 a - R. Rodríguez substituted for A. García in the 9th b - J. Muñóz pinch hit for A. Ruíz in the 10th BATTING Doubles: J. Rivera (2, 7th Inning off K. Baty, 0 on, 2 outs) A. Ruíz (1, 8th Inning off K. Davies, 0 on, 0 outs) Triples: F. García (1, 1st Inning off A. Hobbs, 1 on, 2 outs) Home Runs: A. Cardenas (4, 7th Inning off K. Baty, 1 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: F. García 3, A. García, N. Matos, J. Moreno 2, A. Torres, A. Cardenas 4, J. Rivera 3, A. Ruíz 2 2-out RBI: F. García, A. Cardenas, J. Rivera Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: N. Matos, C. Cantú, A. Ruíz GIDP: A. García, N. Matos Sac Fly: A. Torres Team LOB: 8 FIELDING Errors: M. González (1)	USA AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI A. Tomlinson LF 5 0 3 1 1 0 3 .220 2 7 R. Moore RF 3 0 0 1 1 1 1 .365 1 10 a-C. Murphy PH 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .636 1 3 b-C. Peña PR, RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .241 1 3 H. Thompson DH 3 2 1 1 1 0 4 .400 5 19 F. Dawson 1B 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 .271 4 15 T. Jones C 4 1 2 4 1 1 0 .340 6 23 X. Jiménez 3B 5 0 2 0 0 0 2 .333 3 15 c-B. Adams PR, 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .417 2 4 W. Shaw CF 4 1 1 0 1 1 3 .440 1 5 E. López SS 5 2 3 1 0 1 2 .333 5 7 M. Griffith 2B 4 1 1 0 1 0 3 .346 1 9 Totals 38 8 14 8 7 6 22 a - C. Murphy pinch hit for R. Moore in the 8th b - C. Peña pinch ran for C. Murphy in the 8th c - B. Adams pinch ran for X. Jiménez in the 9th BATTING Doubles: A. Tomlinson 2 (4, 6th Inning off M. González, 0 on, 1 out; 10th Inning off A. Aguirre, 1 on, 0 outs) M. Griffith (9, 10th Inning off A. Aguirre, 0 on, 0 outs) H. Thompson (4, 5th Inning off R. Rosa, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: E. López (5, 6th Inning off M. González, 0 on, 0 outs) T. Jones (6, 1st Inning off G. Ruíz, 2 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: A. Tomlinson 5, E. López 6, X. Jiménez 2, M. Griffith 2, T. Jones 5, H. Thompson 2, W. Shaw, C. Murphy 2-out RBI: T. Jones Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: M. Griffith, H. Thompson, F. Dawson 2 Sac Fly: H. Thompson Team LOB: 10 BASERUNNING CS: A. Tomlinson (2) FIELDING Errors: T. Jones (2) Double Plays: 2 (Griffith-López-Dawson, López-Griffith-Dawson)
Mexico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA G. Ruíz 1.1 2 5 5 6 0 1 53 18 14.21 R. Rosa 3.0 1 1 1 1 2 0 41 24 6.43 M. González 3.2 8 1 1 0 2 1 55 41 6.23 A. Aguirre L (0-2) 1.0 3 1 1 0 2 0 18 12 21.00 PITCHING Game Score: G. Ruíz 18 Batters Faced: G. Ruíz 11, R. Rosa 11, M. González 18, A. Aguirre 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: G. Ruíz 2-1, R. Rosa 1-6, M. González 4-4, A. Aguirre 1-0 Pitches - Strikes: G. Ruíz 53-18, R. Rosa 41-24, M. González 55-41, A. Aguirre 18-12 Inherited Runners - Scored: R. Rosa 3-1, M. González 1-1	USA IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Hobbs 6.0 6 5 5 4 1 0 89 57 6.32 K. Baty BS (1) 0.2 3 2 2 0 2 1 16 12 3.38 K. Davies W (1-0) 3.1 1 0 0 1 4 0 43 27 4.15 PITCHING Game Score: A. Hobbs 37 Batters Faced: A. Hobbs 28, K. Baty 5, K. Davies 12 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Hobbs 6-9, K. Baty 0-0, K. Davies 3-3 Pitches - Strikes: A. Hobbs 89-57, K. Baty 16-12, K. Davies 43-27 Inherited Runners - Scored: K. Davies 1-0 WP: A. Hobbs HB: A. Hobbs 2
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: T. Jones Ballpark: Ann Arbor Grounds Weather: Partly Cloudy (54 degrees), wind blowing out to center at 12 mph Start Time: 1:05 pm Time: 3:20 Attendance: 39686

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Damn. I was hoping to see how Aitken did in the US rotation but he didn't make the cut.

Were the 3 teams Canada, USA, DR? This might have been answered already as I haven't got to the end of the thread yet.

Nope, those are not the three teams either.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Damn. I was hoping to see how Aitken did in the US rotation but he didn't make the cut.

Yeah, I didn't expect it either, but I was looking to see if a steadily improving Manuel Sanchez would make the US team.

It seems like a possibility that both Aitken and Sanchez will be featured on the next US team, though.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Too bad. I think it would be fun if we could. I set up filters in my game, so I could see what the pools would look like, and they look pretty good for most of these, although we would need to do something different for the South American team--there are some players there, but it would easily be the worst entry.

I guess there is no "filtered" way for the AI to pick from a pool? Bummer.

Not really. Basically you can either have team nationalities or league nationalities decide. But it is all tied to the countries they belong from.

I guess the easiest way to do something like this would be for me to create a script that manually went in somehow and changed all of the various player nationalities to a "regional" entity for this.

I can add that to my table of ideas down the road.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Damn. I was hoping to see how Aitken did in the US rotation but he didn't make the cut.

Were the 3 teams Canada, USA, DR? This might have been answered already as I haven't got to the end of the thread yet.

In this file, best I can tell, Aitken is Australian.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

In this file, best I can tell, Aitken is Australian.

You are correct.

Well, at least Sanchez can make the US team.

[Alan T]

With three games remaining in the WBC, three teams have clinched spots in the semi-finals:

USA, Cuba and Canada

POOL A:

Cuba 11-4
Canada 9-6
England 5-10
Japan 5-10


POOL B:

USA 13-2
Mexico 7-8
Dominican Republic 5-10
Puerto Rico 5-10


Mexico has a magic number of 2

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by Alan T

In this file, best I can tell, Aitken is Australian.

Ha! What was I thinking? I thought he was American.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Ha! What was I thinking? I thought he was American.

He wants dual citizenship like in world football.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 16:

Canada 13, Cuba 5 - Pichette keeps his hot bat going for Team Canada as he goes 3 for 4 with a double, HR and 4 RBI.

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Sunday, April 17th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Canada 0 0 0 1 4 0 4 0 4 13 16 1 Cuba 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 12 0
Canada AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI S. Zhai LF 4 1 2 0 1 1 0 .279 1 6 J. Ledrew 2B 5 1 2 0 0 0 4 .348 2 11 D. Juteau 1B 4 2 2 2 1 1 2 .385 4 14 G. Pichette DH 4 2 3 4 0 1 1 .348 7 19 R. Roy SS 5 2 2 3 0 1 3 .270 1 8 J. Hardwick CF 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 .214 0 6 a-Y. Yang PH 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .269 0 5 b-T. Brisson CF 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 .471 2 6 B. McCarthy C 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 .308 0 3 c-C. LaRocque PH, C 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .378 1 2 M. Carrier 3B 5 1 1 1 0 1 2 .333 0 1 J. Renouf RF 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 .441 1 8 Totals 39 13 16 13 4 9 12 a - Y. Yang pinch hit for J. Hardwick in the 7th b - T. Brisson substituted for Y. Yang in the 7th c - C. LaRocque pinch hit for B. McCarthy in the 9th BATTING Doubles: G. Pichette (4, 7th Inning off O. García, 2 on, 2 outs) B. McCarthy (2, 5th Inning off J. Fonseca, 1 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: G. Pichette (7, 9th Inning off J. Herrera, 1 on, 2 outs) R. Roy (1, 7th Inning off O. García, 2 on, 2 outs) T. Brisson (2, 9th Inning off J. Herrera, 1 on, 2 outs) Total Bases: G. Pichette 7, J. Hardwick, J. Ledrew 2, M. Carrier, S. Zhai 2, R. Roy 5, B. McCarthy 3, D. Juteau 2, T. Brisson 4 2-out RBI: , G. Pichette 2, R. Roy, T. Brisson Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , R. Roy 2 GIDP: M. Carrier Sac Fly: G. Pichette Team LOB: 4 BASERUNNING SB: S. Zhai (9) CS: S. Zhai 2 (4) FIELDING Errors: R. Roy (3) Double Plays: 2 (Ledrew-Roy-Juteau, Roy-Ledrew-Juteau)	Cuba AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI P. Garza CF 3 2 1 1 1 1 3 .323 4 20 M. Valenzuela LF 4 0 2 1 1 0 1 .308 1 7 J. Villa SS 4 0 1 0 0 1 4 .364 0 7 b-L. Santana PH 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 .243 3 10 Á. Quiñones 3B 5 1 1 0 0 1 4 .273 2 10 J. Muñóz DH 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 .224 4 15 J. Serrea RF 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 .308 0 5 D. Lara 2B 4 1 2 0 0 2 1 .550 0 0 Á. Valadez 1B 4 0 1 0 0 2 2 .323 1 5 A. Coutreras C 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 .260 3 10 a-H. Martínez PH 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 .340 2 8 Totals 36 5 12 5 3 8 21 a - H. Martínez pinch hit for A. Coutreras in the 9th b - L. Santana pinch hit for J. Villa in the 9th BATTING Doubles: P. Garza (6, 9th Inning off W. MacGregor, 0 on, 1 out) Á. Quiñones (3, 8th Inning off R. Lemieux, 0 on, 0 outs) M. Valenzuela (7, 1st Inning off R. Lemieux, 1 on, 0 outs) D. Lara 2 (4, 4th Inning off R. Lemieux, 0 on, 2 outs; 7th Inning off R. Lemieux, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: H. Martínez (2, 9th Inning off W. MacGregor, 0 on, 1 out) Total Bases: P. Garza 2, J. Villa, Á. Valadez, Á. Quiñones 2, M. Valenzuela 3, J. Serrea, A. Coutreras, D. Lara 4, H. Martínez 4, L. Santana 2-out RBI: L. Santana Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: P. Garza, J. Villa, Á. Valadez, J. Muñóz GIDP: Á. Quiñones, J. Muñóz Sac Fly: P. Garza Team LOB: 8 BASERUNNING CS: J. Serrea (1) FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Villa-Lara-Valadez)
Canada IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA R. Lemieux W (2-2) 8.0 9 3 3 3 7 0 132 82 3.60 W. MacGregor 1.0 3 2 2 0 1 1 25 18 18.00 PITCHING Game Score: R. Lemieux 56 Batters Faced: R. Lemieux 34, W. MacGregor 6 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: R. Lemieux 9-5, W. MacGregor 1-1 Pitches - Strikes: R. Lemieux 132-82, W. MacGregor 25-18	Cuba IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Fonseca L (1-1) 4.1 8 5 5 2 3 0 73 41 3.75 A. Colón 1.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 21 15 1.38 O. García 1.0 4 4 4 0 2 1 27 18 6.00 J. Herrera 1.2 3 4 4 1 3 2 32 20 8.74 J. Torres 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 3 1.46 PITCHING Game Score: J. Fonseca 28 Batters Faced: J. Fonseca 21, A. Colón 5, O. García 7, J. Herrera 9, J. Torres 2 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: J. Fonseca 5-3, A. Colón 0-3, O. García 0-1, J. Herrera 0-2, J. Torres 0-1 Pitches - Strikes: J. Fonseca 73-41, A. Colón 21-15, O. García 27-18, J. Herrera 32-20, J. Torres 8-3 Inherited Runners - Scored: A. Colón 2-0
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: G. Pichette Ballpark: Charm Ballpark Weather: Partly Cloudy (53 degrees), wind blowing in from right at 10 mph Start Time: 2:05 pm Time: 3:23 Attendance: 39963

[Chief Rum]

Heh...did an Australian search and mostly, nothing there. But it did have Aitken, Cong Che and a name I think most in FOOL will know soon enough...Roland England, that monster 2B talent (90+ talent across the board, Contact to Eye) DC drafted two drafts ago.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Ha! What was I thinking? I thought he was American.

It is ok, every WBC it feels like half of Team Canada is actually the Chinese national team when I read off the names

[Alan T]

WBC Day 16:

Japan 12, England 3 - Danjuro Ikeda goes 2 for 4 with a HR and 5 RBI for Japan

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Sunday, April 17th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E England 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 10 0 Japan 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 X 12 12 0
England AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI C. MacIan LF 5 1 1 2 0 2 1 .244 2 8 M. Blatherwick DH 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 .289 1 5 P. Blowey SS 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 .382 3 9 c-M. Silcock PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 0 0 B. Prebble CF 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 .352 4 13 a-A. Gates PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .288 0 8 b-M. Darrington CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 0 0 Q. Strode 3B 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 .333 3 18 M. Thomas 2B 4 0 1 0 0 1 2 .160 0 1 J. Blowey 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200 2 4 T. Merrell RF 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 .237 0 5 D. Allcock C 4 1 2 0 0 1 2 .273 1 8 Totals 35 3 10 3 2 6 14 a - A. Gates pinch hit for B. Prebble in the 7th b - M. Darrington substituted for A. Gates in the 7th c - M. Silcock pinch ran for P. Blowey in the 9th BATTING Doubles: D. Allcock (5, 5th Inning off N. Ueda, 1 on, 0 outs) Triples: C. MacIan (1, 5th Inning off N. Ueda, 2 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: P. Blowey, C. MacIan 3, Q. Strode, B. Prebble, D. Allcock 3, T. Merrell, M. Thomas, M. Blatherwick 2 Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: B. Prebble, D. Allcock, M. Thomas GIDP: P. Blowey, J. Blowey Team LOB: 11 FIELDING PB: D. Allcock	Japan AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI H. Higashi LF 3 1 0 1 1 1 2 .222 1 13 T. Sanu DH 3 1 2 0 2 0 1 .382 0 4 E. Watanabe 3B 4 1 1 1 1 0 2 .313 2 15 H. Okamoto RF 4 2 2 2 1 0 1 .318 5 14 Y. Adachi CF 4 2 1 0 1 2 3 .224 3 8 D. Ikeda 1B 4 2 2 5 0 1 0 .250 5 15 H. Uchida 2B 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 .231 0 1 T. Nishikawa SS 4 0 1 2 0 0 1 .262 1 8 T. Ito C 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 .153 1 2 Totals 34 12 12 12 6 4 11 BATTING Doubles: E. Watanabe (8, 5th Inning off B. Lewthwaite, 2 on, 2 outs) H. Uchida (1, 1st Inning off A. Coggins, 2 on, 1 out) Home Runs: D. Ikeda (5, 5th Inning off M. Cranfield, 2 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: H. Okamoto 2, E. Watanabe 2, T. Sanu 2, T. Ito, D. Ikeda 5, Y. Adachi, H. Uchida 3, T. Nishikawa 2-out RBI: H. Okamoto, E. Watanabe Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , Y. Adachi 2 Sac Fly: H. Higashi Team LOB: 5 BASERUNNING CS: T. Sanu (1) FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (Watanabe-Uchida-Ikeda, Nishikawa-Uchida-Ikeda)
England IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Coggins L (1-2) 0.1 3 6 6 3 0 0 28 10 5.06 T. Loxton 2.2 1 0 0 1 3 0 43 28 3.57 M. Cranfield 1.0 3 3 3 1 0 1 21 9 8.16 B. Lewthwaite 0.2 4 3 3 1 0 0 28 15 6.10 D. Mastin 2.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 25 17 4.76 J. Collinge 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 6 7.71 PITCHING Game Score: A. Coggins 10 Batters Faced: A. Coggins 7, T. Loxton 10, M. Cranfield 7, B. Lewthwaite 7, D. Mastin 7, J. Collinge 3 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: A. Coggins 1-0, T. Loxton 4-1, M. Cranfield 3-0, B. Lewthwaite 1-1, D. Mastin 2-4, J. Collinge 2-0 Pitches - Strikes: A. Coggins 28-10, T. Loxton 43-28, M. Cranfield 21-9, B. Lewthwaite 28-15, D. Mastin 25-17, J. Collinge 8-6 Inherited Runners - Scored: T. Loxton 2-2, D. Mastin 2-0	Japan IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA N. Ueda W (3-1) 7.2 9 3 3 2 4 0 121 80 2.08 Y. Murakami 1.1 1 0 0 0 2 0 19 13 3.48 PITCHING Game Score: N. Ueda 51 Batters Faced: N. Ueda 35, Y. Murakami 5 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: N. Ueda 12-5, Y. Murakami 2-0 Pitches - Strikes: N. Ueda 121-80, Y. Murakami 19-13 Inherited Runners - Scored: Y. Murakami 2-0 HB: N. Ueda 3
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: D. Ikeda Ballpark: Edge Ballpark Weather: Clear skies (44 degrees), wind blowing out to right at 9 mph Start Time: 2:05 pm Time: 3:10 Attendance: 39719

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by Alan T

It is ok, every WBC it feels like half of Team Canada is actually the Chinese national team when I read off the names

There are Chinese people in Canada.

[Alan T]

WBC Day 16:

Mexico 2, Puerto Rico 1 - Cesar Roman pitches 8 innings, striking out 8 and giving up just 1 run on 7 hits to eliminate Puerto Rico from any chance of the semi-finals.

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Sunday, April 17th, 2039 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Puerto Rico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 0 Mexico 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 2 5 0
Puerto Rico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Hernández 3B 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 .306 2 7 E. Medina LF 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 .283 0 7 R. Santos RF 4 0 2 0 0 1 1 .344 2 11 C. Gonzáles DH 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 .117 1 4 L. Pérez C 4 0 0 0 0 2 6 .299 3 15 R. López 2B 3 1 2 1 0 1 2 .367 1 5 T. Carrasco SS 4 0 0 0 0 2 4 .167 0 1 A. Lozano 1B 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 .266 2 10 S. Dávila CF 4 0 1 0 0 0 3 .291 0 4 a-J. Sánchez PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .235 1 2 Totals 33 1 8 1 1 8 21 a - J. Sánchez pinch ran for S. Dávila in the 9th BATTING Doubles: E. Medina (2, 1st Inning off C. Román, 0 on, 1 out) R. López (5, 2nd Inning off C. Román, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: R. López (1, 9th Inning off C. Román, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: J. Hernández, E. Medina 2, R. López 6, A. Lozano, R. Santos 2, S. Dávila Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , L. Pérez 2, T. Carrasco, S. Dávila GIDP: S. Dávila Team LOB: 10 FIELDING Double Plays: 1 (Carrasco-López-Lozano) PB: L. Pérez	Mexico AB R H RBI BB K LOB AVG HR RBI J. Moreno LF 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 .274 3 17 N. Matos DH 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 .310 1 7 A. Cardenas 3B 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 .286 4 15 F. García CF 4 2 2 1 0 0 2 .279 3 12 J. Rivera 1B 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 .358 0 12 A. García RF 3 0 0 0 0 1 3 .316 2 5 a-R. Rodríguez RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 J. Muñóz SS 2 0 0 1 1 1 4 .146 1 8 C. Cantú 2B 4 0 0 0 0 1 6 .176 0 5 A. Torres C 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 .228 5 11 Totals 27 2 5 2 6 4 21 a - R. Rodríguez substituted for A. García in the 9th BATTING Triples: F. García (2, 4th Inning off P. Zavala, 0 on, 0 outs) Home Runs: F. García (3, 6th Inning off P. Zavala, 0 on, 0 outs) Total Bases: F. García 7, N. Matos, A. Cardenas, J. Rivera Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: F. García, A. Torres 2 GIDP: N. Matos Sac Fly: J. Muñóz Team LOB: 9 FIELDING Double Plays: 2 (Moreno-Cantú, Cantú-Muñóz-Rivera)
Puerto Rico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA P. Zavala L (1-3) 8.0 5 2 2 6 4 1 120 66 4.28 PITCHING Game Score: P. Zavala 62 Batters Faced: P. Zavala 35 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: P. Zavala 6-13 Pitches - Strikes: P. Zavala 120-66 HB: P. Zavala	Mexico IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA C. Román W (3-1) 8.0 7 1 1 1 8 1 98 67 3.80 A. Aguirre SV (1) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 10 15.75 PITCHING Game Score: C. Román 71 Batters Faced: C. Román 33, A. Aguirre 4 Ground Outs - Fly Outs: C. Román 8-6, A. Aguirre 1-2 Pitches - Strikes: C. Román 98-67, A. Aguirre 15-10 WP: C. Román HB: C. Román 3 Balk: C. Román
GAME NOTES Player of the Game: C. Román Ballpark: Rebels Ballpark Weather: Partly Cloudy (48 degrees), wind blowing right to left at 12 mph Start Time: 2:05 pm Time: 2:18 Attendance: 39990

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by TeachEnEspanol

There are Chinese people in Canada.

Well, I assume so! Just like there are Chinese people in the U.S! But it just seems more improportionate then what I know of Canadian demographics.

Of course that might be because my sister lives near Montreal where there are a whole lot more of French decent then Chinese decent. I'm sure it is much different on the west coast of Canada.

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by Alan T

It is ok, every WBC it feels like half of Team Canada is actually the Chinese national team when I read off the names

Here is some learning for ya...

"Chinese Canadians are Canadians of Chinese descent and constitute the largest visible minority group in Canada, standing at 1,216,570 which comprises 3.9% of the population in 2006.^[1] Out of those 1,216,570 people, 211,145 people were of Chinese and one other ethnic origin."

It was on the internet so it must be true!