March 05, 2009
Japan Wins
Japan took game one of the World Baseball Classic, defeating China 4-0. The Chinese take this as a great sign of improvement:
Given the results of three years ago when China lost to Japan 18-2, Thursday's performance was an improvement. China's pitchers held Japan's star-studded lineup to five hits.
''Any time you can hold a lineup like that to five hits you are doing a good job,'' Collins said. ''I'm very pleased with the way our pitchers played tonight.''
Given China's massive population advantage, I suspect they will continue to become very competitive at the sport.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Maybe. The US has a population advantage over a pile of European nations, and we still can't touch them on a soccer field. The Chinese have to embrace the sport. Have they? One of their first acts post Olympics was to tear down the stadium and diamond build for the games, which is not the action of a nation with great interest in the game.
