Saturday, February 23, 2013
Aikawa’s clutch eighth-inning homer gives Japan comeback win over Australia
(www.japantimes.co.jp)
Read More...Two-time defending World Baseball Classic champion Japan endured a scare on Saturday one week before the start of the 2013 tournament, but backup catcher Ryoji Aikawa rescued his team with a three-run, eighth-inning homer in a 3-2 victory over Australia.
Koji Yamamoto’s Samurai Japan prevailed in the first of its two exhibition games as the teams prepare for the start of the WBC on March 2. Japan will open the defense of the titles won in 2006 and 2009 in Fukuoka in Pool A, while Australia ...
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1. 3Com Park posted on September 03, 2012 at 12:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0If you watched this year, there was all this love showered on the team from Uganda for building a program and making it to the LLWS.
Well, forget that. It will never happen again. Africa has now been grouped with all of Europe and the Middle East.
The reason, I guess, is that Australia could never get a team out of the Pacific grouping. Australia should get to come because they have a great program, but there should also be a place for less skilled teams from non-baseball countries.
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