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Taiwan Squeezes Past China to Take Second

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

China played Chinese Taipei tough, leading 1-0 after four innings.  Taiwan scored a run in the fifth to tie it and added runs in the seventh and eighth to take the 3-1 victory.  Taiwan finished in second place at 4-1 while China settled for fourth at 2-3.

China started T. Bu.  In his first start he didn’t give up any runs in five innings of work, striking out nine.  In his second start he almost duplicated that, Taiwan going scoreless until scoring their lone run off him in the fifth.  Bu only gave up three hits, walking two and striking out three.

Taiwan got eight innings from the duo of H.C. Lai and Y.L. Wang.  Lai had only worked one inning of scoreless relief in a previous appearance, but threw four plus innings against China, giving up their lone run.  Wang got the start and the loss in the opener against Japan.  He went three plus innings without giving up a hit or walk and striking out five in his start against China.

S.W. Wang spanked two hits to drive in one run.  The box score can be found here: http://www.ctba.org.tw/show_record.php?id=3427

Final standings are Japan 5-0, Tawian, 4-1, Korea 3-2, China 2-3, Philippines 1-4, Pakistan 0-5.

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2012 Asian Baseball Championships - Taiwan Shuts Out Korea

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

For the second straight day Korea was shutout, this time by four pitchers from Taiwan.  J.H. Tseng threw six innings of three hit shutout ball followed by three relievers who pitched a perfect three innings.  S.C. Chou was the big bat with four RBIs.  Taiwan scored all their runs in the fourth and fifth innings.

The Philippines won their first game beating Pakistan 2-0.  Pakistan went all five games without crossing the plate.  Charlie Labrador threw nine innings of five hit shutout ball.  He walked three and struck out 10.  Both Philippine runs were scored in the third and were unearned as a result of Pakistan miscues.

Japan walloped China 10-1 after China had taken a 1-0 lead after one inning.  China was able to bang out nine hits against the Japanese pitchers.  Unfortunately, Japan bunched together 11 hits and crossed the plate 10 times after China’s first score.  Takuya Fujishima lashed out two doubles from the leadoff spot to drive in two and score one.  Toshiyuki Hayashi bombed a shot over the wall, the second homerun of the tournament to drive in two and score two.  Five different pitchers appeared, including Daichi Osera, who struck out all nine hitters he faced in his first appearance.  He pitched two innings in this game, giving up three hits, two of them doubles and striking out two, but didn’t allow a runner to cross the plate.

You can see the box scores here by clicking here: http://yakyubaka.com/2012/11/28/2012-26th-bfa-asian-baseball-championship-schedule/

The only game left is between Taiwan and China for makeup.  Tawian appears to have second place wrapped up even with a loss after their defeat of Korea.  It doesn’t appear there will be any playoff round.

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Japan Shuts Out Korea in Asian Championships

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

Japan shutout Korea 4-0 in the Asian Baseball championships.  That puts them in the drivers seat for the championship.  Tomorrow they need to defeat China to clinch their pool.  Kentaro Yoshinaga and Ryo Akiyoshi each worked at least four innings.  Ryo faced the minimum number of hitters in his four innings of work, striking out six and getting credit for his third win of the tournament.

In other action Taiwan had a perfect game 15-0 win over Pakistan.  Three Taiwan pitchers combined for a seven inning perfect game.  Y.C. Lin worked the first five innings, striking out nine.

The Philippines also got abused by one of the weaker Asian teams.  After playing very competetively against Japan, Korea and Taiwan they were blasted by China 16-0, committing seven errors and getting only two hits.  China also whacked out 14 hits and combined for seven walks to put more men on base than shoes in Imelda’s closet.  Q.Y. Ming threw six innings of one hit shutout ball for China.

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Japan Squeaks Past Philippines

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

The Japanese had trouble getting hits from the two Philippine pitchers Dela Darwin and Orillana Joseph.  Dela shut them down for the first two innings and Orillana shut them out for the next three innings.  Unfortunately, the Philippine bats were having an equally hard time crossing the plate against three different Japanese pitchers, Motoshi Oshiro, Masamitsu Hamano and Ryo Akiyoshi.

Japan finally scored in the sixth inning after a pinchhit double from Takuya Fujishima started things off.  Yuichi Tabata drove him in with the second of his two hits.  Tabata finished the game with a single and a double.

Ryo Akiyoshi got the win going two innings in relief.  It is his second win of the tournament.  Masamitsu gave up the only two hits and a walk in pitching the middle two innings, but struck out six hitters.  Oshiro pitched the first three innings and faced the minimum nine hitters, but walking one.

Korea had an easier time over Pakistan, beating them 5-0.  Pakistan has yet to score a run in the tournament.  S.M. Hong pitched the full five innings to get the shortened complete game shutout, giving up only one hit, walking one and striking out seven.  P.H. Cho slugged the first homerun in the tournament, a solo shot in the fifth inning.

The big match is today when the two undefeated teams at 3-0 Japan and Korea do battle.  You can see the box scores and the hitting and pitching stats here: http://www.baseballjapan.org/common/news_doc/news_pdf_302.pdf

China and Taiwan were rained out and have been rescheduled for December 3.  This game could decide third place if China can get past the Philippines today.

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2012 Asian Baseball Championships - Day 3

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

Both Korea and Japan remained undefeated to set up their encounter in Day four of the Asian Baseball Championships.  Japan barely got by the Philippines 1-0 while Korea shut out Pakistan 5-0.  In three games Pakistan has yet to score a run.

The game between China and Taiwan was rained out.  They will play their makeup on the third.  Taiwan was embarrassed twice in the WBC when they faced China, forcing them to play in a qualifying match.  Hopefully, myworld will have more details on these games tomorrow.

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2012 Asian Baseball Championship Boxscores 1fb1

Friday, November 30th, 2012

For those who have an interest in seeing the boxscores from Day one and Day two of the 2012 Asian Baseball Championships I was able to locate them.

For day one the box scores can be found here   http://www.baseballjapan.org/common/news_doc/news_pdf_300.pdf

For day two the box scores can be found here: http://www.baseballjapan.org/common/news_doc/news_pdf_301.pdf

Day one saw the Philippines jump out to a 3-0 lead in their game against Korea.  Korea came back in the home half to tie the game 3-3.  The Philippines did committ three errors in the game, making all six runs in the two three run outbursts for Korea unearned.  Jasmin Romeo had an excellent outing for the Philippines pitching four shutout innings and giving up only one hit.

China got five shutout innings from T. Bu in their 7-0 win over Pakistan.  He gave up six hits but struck out nine in the six inning affair.  Leadoff hitter Sumair Zawar got two of the six hits for Pakistan in the loss.

In the big game Akira Matsumoto stroked two doubles driving in one of the two runs in Japan’s 2-1 win over host Taiwan.  Junichi Kataya worked five plus innings, giving up the only run but only allowing two hits to get the win.  S.W. Wang delivered two hits for Taiwan, one of them driving in the only run.

Day 2 saw Korea shutout China 4-0.  H.S. Jung drove in two runs with his one hit and P.H. Cho scored two.  In-Wook Jung worked six shutout innings, giving up only one hit and striking out eight for Korea.

Japan bashed Pakistan 13-0 with Daichi Osera striking out all nine Pakistan batters he faced in the first three innings.  The three Japanese pitchers only gave up one hit and struck out 16 in the seven inning game.  Takumi Horikosh had two triples to drive in six runs for Japan.

Leadoff hitter P.C. Chen smashed four of the 15 Taiwan hits against the Philippines and scored three of the 12 runs in Taiwan’s 12-1 win over the Philippines.  Taiwan scored seven runs in the first two innings, roughing up Philippine ace Charlie Labrador for five runs in his one inning plus of work.

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2012 Asian Baseball Championships - Day 2

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Korea and Japan finished day two as the only undefeated teams.  Korea shutout China 4-0 while Japan defeated Pakistan 13-0.  Taiwan got on the winning track by defeating Philippines 12-1.

For those who want to read an interesting article on the Philippines team you can go here: http://www.rappler.com/sports/16907-ph-team-seeks-glory-in-2012-asian-baseball-championship.  There big hope for this series was to have their pitching do well and hope to get some offense to support their pitching.  In the first two days they have scored four runs but given up 18.

An article on Pakistan’s hopes in the Asian baseball championships is here: http://dawn.com/2012/09/04/pakistan-to-feature-in-asian-baseball-championship/.  They have no real history in baseball, but if they continue to progress they could become eligible as a WBC participant in the next qualifying round.

Myworld has not been able to find any writeup on the results or box scores.

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Asian Baseball Championships - first day

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

No details can be found but Korea downed the Philippines 6-3 and China shutout Pakistan 7-0 in the opener of the Asian Baseball Championships.

After the opening ceremonies the two favorites, Taiwan and Japan battled with Japan coming out on top 2-1.

When myworld finds details on the games we will pass them along.  Information taken from a schedule provided by yakubaka.

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Asian Baseball Championships Begin Tomorrow

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

China, Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Pakistan are the six teams that will compete in the Asian Baseball championships in Taiwan.  The first tournament was held in 1954 and the winner of that event was the Philippines, with the strong Asian powers of Japan finishing second and Korea and Taiwan sharing third.  Things have not gone well for the Philippines since that time, getting third or fourth place finishes in the next nine tournaments before falling off the medal rounds entirely until 2001 and 2007 when they had two other fourth place finishes.

Japan has won the tournament for the last four years.  Taiwan has finished in second place in three of those years with Korea finishing second the other year.  Korea and Taiwan are the only other two countries to have won the tournament.  China has had one third place finish plus a few fourth place and Guam was a surprising fourth place in 1987.  Australia has also had a number of third place finish in 1975 and a few fourth place finishes.

Except for the Philippines first place finish in 1954 only Japan, Korea and Taiwan have finished in the top two.

You can see a schedule of the games at http://yakyubaka.com/2012/11/28/2012-26th-bfa-asian-baseball-championship-schedule/

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New Zealand Becoming New Power in Baseball

Saturday, November 17th, 2012

New Zealand came into these WBC qualifying rounds without being ranked by the IBAF as one of the top teams in baseball.  It was as if they didn’t exist.  They made themselves known with a 10-6 win over the Philippines to get a chance to go into a qualifying round final with Taiwan.  While the chance for an upset is slim, they have at least won their first two international baseball games.

Scott Campbell drove in three runs and Boss Moanaroa drove in two in a game that wasn’t even close until the Philippines rallied for four runs in the eighth to pull within four.  New Zealand called on their game one starting pitcher Lincoln Holdzkom to get the last five outs to preserve the victory and get the save.  The win went to his brother John for the one inning plus one of relief he worked in the second and third innings.  He struck out three of the five hitters he faced, walking one.

The Philippines had some difficulty fielding the ball, committing seven errors to tie Thailand for most errors in a WBC game.  The errors allowed New Zealand to score five unearned runs.  New Zealand also committed three errors to also allow five unearned runs to score.  Philippine first baseman Leighton Pangilinan committed three errors.

James Wilson, who was born in London, Ontario in Canada worked four innings of relief to get a hold.  Only 503 fans showed up to watch the game, an issue for a host country when their team is not playing.

The box score for the game can be found here: http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/wbc/2013/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_11_17_nzlint_phiint_1&mode=box

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