Men's Baseball WBSC African/European Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2019

[rajiv 25]

Is the Israel baseball team composed of bona fide  Israelis or are they just Jewish Americans ?

How many can converse fluently  in Hebrew for instance  ?

[Olympian1010 7,470]

3 minutes ago, rajiv said:

Is the Israel baseball team composed of bona fide  Israelis or are they just Jewish Americans ?

How many can converse fluently  in Hebrew for instance  ?

Many Jewish Americans know Hebrew, but that’s an interesting question. It’s not hard to get Israeli citizenship, so they’ve made it easier for Americans to join

[phelps 6,787]

13 minutes ago, rajiv said:

Is the Israel baseball team composed of bona fide  Israelis or are they just Jewish Americans ?

How many can converse fluently  in Hebrew for instance  ?

 

almost all of them are just Jewish Americans, who live and play in the US Baseball system...

 

how strong their relationship with Israel as a Country is, frankly I don't know...

[Jan Linha 470]

29 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

almost all of them are just Jewish Americans, who live and play in the US Baseball system...

 

how strong their relationship with Israel as a Country is, frankly I don't know...

 

I guess the "financial relationship" must be quite good :-D 

[Jan Linha 470]

BEAUTIFUL WIN ......  11:1  C'mon Czech Republic! There is still a chance! 

[phelps 6,787]

Colabellooooooooo!!!

 

once again, Italy went down first (0-2 after 4 innings), but now Colabello brought Poma and Maggi home with a double at center field in the 5th and we're tied at 2...

 

in the meantime, also in the 5th, the Netherlands are 3-1 ahead against Spain...

[NearPup 2,156]

Italy having a horror top of the 8th inning. Couple of errors, two hit by pitch, three runs scored so far for Israel.

[phelps 6,787]

and the Italian Olympic dream is flying away in a crazy top of the 8th...2 capital mistakes and a weird, really unlucky play opened up a 3-run gap in favour of Israel...

 

and the inning is not over yet...

 

it will be really difficult to comeback from this hole, now...

[NearPup 2,156]

It’s really hard to express how unlucky the Italian team was during the top of the 8th inning. Just a ridiculous series of events.

 

 8 - 2  with 1.5 innings to go.

[NearPup 2,156]

 has three outs left to find at least six runs.