Men's Baseball WBSC World Baseball Classic 2023

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Yu Chang!!! We're all tied up at 7

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and the party in Taichung restarted what a lovely atmosphere

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8-7 Taiwan leads. I'm going to age 10 years watching this game 

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11-7 now. well, that was something

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Well, I thought tonight I could catch some zʻs (not live on three hours of sleep for three days in a row) and check out the highlights the next morning, but holy crap! I missed a lot.

 

Happy for to get the win. They are a team nobody can dislike.

finally figured it out. And now with in charge against , Pool A is a total scramble.

Sad to see drop to 0-2. I follow the KBO, so they were my "second favorite" in the tournament.

 

8 games on the schedule tomorrow!

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Been watching the last few innings with my Taiwanese parents. We all went nuts after that last home run!

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Pool B Scores

 

8 - 5

4 - 13

 

Pool B Standings

 

Japan 2-0 (+16 RD)

Czechia 1-0 (+3)

Australia 1-0 (+1)

Korea 0-2 (-10)

China 0-2 (-10)

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gg Italian bros!

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Pool A Scores

 

13 - 4

7 - 11

 

Pool A Standings

 

Netherlands 2-0 (+4 RD)

Chinese Taipei 1-1 (-3) *H2H over ITA

Italy 1-1 (-1)

Cuba 1-2 (+4)

Panama 1-2 (-4)

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expected rebound effect for  vs the Host Nation of pool A  

 

as I wrote quite some time ago, we're too weak on the mound...we used the only 2/3 good pitchers we have yesterday vs  and Today we paid the prize.

 

the only decent performance came from Stephen Woods (should I write Giuffrè -his real Family Name, Woods is just the Family Name of the man who adopted his father, a true Sicilian guy- when he went to live in the States), who still gave away a 2-run HR on one of his last few pitches.

 

Castellani, Biagini and Marciano just unwatchable, especially Biagini should be named a traitor 

 

tbh, this  team is nothing special...I consider today's loss a truly wasted chance to build a great tournament for us.

 

 

on the other side, great show in Tokyo, with  starting strong against Darvish, but after some sleepy early innings,  showed why they are the favourites to win it all.

 

now  are basically already on the plane coming back to Seoul, unless  decide to commit suicide vs weaker teams like  and .