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Samurai Japan beat South Korea and climb on top of the World The Home Team made a crowd of 44,960 ecstatic as they overcame an early deficit to defeat South Korea 5-3 in the Final and became the Champions of the 2019 WBSC Premier 12. Japan's starter Shun Yamaguchi didn't go beyond the first inning, as Korea wasted no time getting to him. The Yomiuri Giants 15-game winner walked lead off hitter Lee Jung-Hoo on 6 pitches and then allowed a 2-run homer to shortstop Kim Ha-Seon. Left fielder Kim Hyun-Soo followed with a solo shot that gave superstar starter Yang Hyeon Jong a three-run lead to work with. But those 3 runs proved to be a too slim margin for him and his team. In the bottom of the 1st inning the Korean starter walked Hayato Sakamoto and a few seconds later he scored on a double by Seiya Suzuki. In the bottom of the 2nd inning, history repeated: Yang walked Tsubasa Aizawa, then Ryosuke Kikuchi singled and finally, with 2 men on 1st and 2nd, first baseman Tetsuto Yamada launched a 3-run blast that turned the score around. Japan also added 1 more insurance run in the bottom of the 7th inning when Hayato Sakamoto first hit a double and then scored on a single by Hideto Asamura. Meanwhile, after Yamaguchi shaky start that cost him an early exit after only 1 inning pitched, the following 6 Japanese relievers limited Korea to 3 hits, 1 base-on-balls and no score for the rest of the night. Gold Medal match Boxscore https://premier12.wbsc.org/en/2019/schedule-and-results/box-score/3971 Gold Medal match Highlights

Japan won it! 5-3 the final score for the Home Nation...

huge insurance run for Japan in the bottom of the 7th (Sakamura scored on an Asamura's single with 2 outs)... 5-3 for the Home Nation after 7 full innings...

Men's Team Sabre (Cairo, EGY) Final Results Gold: South Korea Silver: Hungary Bronze: Italy Semifinals: Hungary b. Italy 45-37 South Korea b. Russia 45-39 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. Russia 45-31 Gold Medal Match: South Korea b. Hungary 45-41  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/759?tab=results

@MHSN Iran surprisingly could take part into this event, too... unfortunately, they lost to Hungary in the quarterfinals (45-39)...

and after the furious start by the Koreans, the Samurai Japan's answer came in a while...1 run scored in the bottom of the 1st and 3 in the bottom of the 2nd and here they come... then, the relievers of both teams proved to be way better than the starters and things did calm down... right now, we're in the bottom of the 6th and the score is still 4-3 in favour of the Home Nation...

Today's Women's Mass Start race (full results .pdf file not available yet)...

and another solo-shot by the Koreans!!! now they lead 3-0!!! if the Japanese manager doesn't take Yamaguchi off the field immediately, the game is going to be over soon...it's obvious that Yamaguchi's not having the day of his life (euphemism, big euphemism)...

what a start for Korea! lead-off walk and 2-run shot!!!

for those who might still have some doubts... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/niger

Navarro singles in extras, takes Mexico to the 2020 Olympics First baseman Efren Navarro singled on a broken-bat blooper in the bottom of the tenth off left handed reliever Caleb Thielbar to bring home Javier Salazar. Mexico beat the USA 3-2, to earn the 2019 WBSC Premier 12 Bronze Medal and the spot of the Americas Region in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Navarro fouled off as many as four consecutive pitches before looking at a ball. He singled on the eighth offering of his at-bat after going 0 for 4 and striking out three times in the game. "It was a very important at-bat and I'm grateful that I had this chance," said Efren Navarro after the game. "You must credit all of the team for this accomplishment. The pitchers, Matt Clark, who kept us in the game with his home run." Mexico's manager Juan Castro decided to bunt in the bottom of the tenth despite having red-hot Jonathan Jones at the plate. The center field went down 0-2 in the count against Brandon Dickson, then advanced the tie-break runners to second a third with a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt. The USA walked second baseman Esteban Quiroz to load the bases, then went to the bullpen. Left-handed batter Navarro got the game winning-hit off left-handed reliever Caleb Thielbar. The same approach hadn't proved successful for the USA in the top half of the inning. Manager Scott Brosius got a perfect sacrifice bunt from Bobby Dalbec, the same hitter who had put the USA ahead in the top of the seventh. Mexico's reliever Carlos Bustamante intentionally walked right fielder Brooker to load the bases. He then struck out third baseman Alec Bohm on a breaking ball outside and got out of the inning as shortstop Jake Cronenworth popped out to shortstop. The USA came just three out short of the win. Noah Song allowed only a walk in 1.1 innings and handed the ball to closer Brandon Dickson with a one-run lead in the bottom of the ninth. Designated hitter Matthew Clark homered on the third pitch to tie the game. "I was looking for something high in the zone." said Clark after being awarded as the Hublot Player of the Game. "He hanged a split-finger and I was fortunate enough to make the most of it." Carlos Bustamante earned the win as the sixth pitcher to step to the mound for Mexico. Juan Castro used three more relievers after starter Arturo Reyes: Brennan Bernardino, Jesus Rios and Eduardo Vera. Today's match Boxscore https://premier12.wbsc.org/en/2019/schedule-and-results/box-score/3970 Today's match Highlights

Men's Park Semifinals Results http://www.worldskate.org/component/phocadownload/category/643-stu-rio-de-janeiro-park-2019-results.html?download=4396:oi-stu-open-men-s-park-semifinal-results Men qualified to the Final 1. Alex Sorgente 2. Ben Hatchell 3. Jagger Eaton 4. Pedro Barros 5. Thomas Schaar 6. Cory Juneau 7. Gavin Rune Bottger 8. Oskar Rozenberg Hallberg

Women's Street Semifinals Results http://www.worldskate.org/component/phocadownload/category/644-stu-rio-de-janeiro-street-2019-results.html?download=4395:oi-stu-open-women-s-street-semifinal-results Girls qualified to the Final 1. Pamela Rosa 2. Rayssa Leal 3. Gabriela Mazetto 4. Mariah Duran 5. Aori Nishimura 6. Roos Zwetsloot 7. Virginia Forte Aguas 8. Alexis Sablone

that's sure... I was just a bit sarcastic about their 4 & 5 mistakes...and they were the only guys to miss so many targets among the top 50 finishers (maybe there were another 1 or 2 with 4 misses in the first 2 pages of the results sheet, but surely no one else with 5 -of course I'm not counting those who ended up after the fat lady stopped singing)...

Windisch and Hofer must have skipped some shooting training lately... Men's Sprint Full Results, here: https://sesongstartskiskyting.no/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/sprint_menn_resultater.pdf

full written recap of Sun Yang's hearing... https://swimswam.com/live-recap-wada-vs-sun-yang-fina-cas-hearing/

Men's Individual Sabre (Cairo, EGY) Final Results Gold: Vincent Anstett Silver: Luigi Samele Bronze: Kim Jung Hwan & Fares Ferjani Semifinals: Anstett b. Kim 15-14 Samele b. Ferjani 15-8 Gold Medal Match: Anstett b. Samele 15-14  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/164

Super-Round Final Standings 1st, Japan, 4W - 1L 2nd, South Korea, 3W - 2L* 3rd, Mexico, 3W - 2L* 4th, United States, 2W - 3L** 5th, Chinese Taipei, 2W - 3L** 6th, Australia, 1W - 4L * = won the direct match-up **= won the direct match-up Bronze Medal match (also playoff game for the Panamerican Olympic spot) Tomorrow @ Noon local time, 4 a.m. CET: United States @ Mexico Gold Medal match Tomorrow @ 7 p.m. local time, 11 a.m. CET: South Korea @ Japan

Final score: Japan, 10 b. South Korea, 8 Boxscore https://premier12.wbsc.org/en/2019/schedule-and-results/box-score/3969 tomorrow for sure it won't be another game like this...luckily...

damn! Kim won 15-13 against Aldo...

nothing new for a Cairo world cup stage... however, it looks that we're having a lot of upsets and quite a few Italians already making the top 16 (and not out, yet)... among the big names, only Kim Jung Hwan, Oh Sanguk, Veniamin Reshetnikov and Max Hartung are still in (and Kim and Hartung are going to face each other in the last 16 round, if they win their next respective bout...with Kim fencing against Montano right now)...

the Italian girls look already in good shape... Lisa Vittozzi won today's Sprint race with some margin over the surprising Swede Ingela Andersson...and Dorothea Wierer came 3rd... Women's Sprint Full Results, here: https://sesongstartskiskyting.no/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/kvinner_sprint_resultatliste.pdf

a 1-RBI single and a 3-run shot in the bottom of the 8th inning did it for Chinese Taipei against Australia, killing the hopes of the Aussies to play for Bronze and at the same time giving the US boys another chance to play for Bronze and, above all, for the Olympic spot tomorrow against Mexico... Final score: Chinese Taipei, 5 b. Australia, 1 Boxscore https://premier12.wbsc.org/en/2019/schedule-and-results/box-score/3968

don't worry...this venue wasn't built because of the Olympics (it was already there well before) and will be used a lot also after the Olympics (there are quite a few teams in the area...baseball is the Japanese National Team Sport)...

to be played on Tuesday, November 19th