Thursday, 08 November 2007
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Going the Distance: A Walk Accross Austraila
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Photo courtasy of los Tigres de AraguaAragua 2 at Zulia 1
W: J. Karnuth (1-0, 0.00); L: J. Figueroa (1-2, 3.86); SV: F. Butto (3)
HR: None.Los Tigres de Arague scratched out a win against the Aguilas de Zulia Wednesday. The Tigres would be kept off the board until the 7th inning and would not find the game winning run until the 8th, rallying past the Eagles for the win.
Yurendell de Caster (Pittsburgh) singled in the bottom of the 5th inning for Zulia, moved to second on a walk to Randy Ruiz (San Francisco) and progressed to 3rd when Gerardo Avila (Seattle) hit into a double play. Alberto Callaspo's (Arizona) single brought de Caster over the plate to give los Aguilas the lead.
Hector Gimenez (Houston) drew a walk in the top of the 7th for the Tigres. Alex Nunez (F/A) doubled out to center and Alex Romero (Arizona) was intentionally walked. A sac-fly by Jose Martinez (St Louis) brought in Gimenez to tie up the constest.
Ronny Cedeno (Chicago Cubs) doubled to start out the top of the 8th. Luis Rodriguez (San Diego) hit into a sac-bunt, but a throwing error by catcher Guillermo Rodriguez (San Francisco) allowed Cedeno to come home for the game winning run.
Former Miracle Oswaldo Sosa (Minnesota) pitched .1 inning for the Tigers, walking a man and striking out another. Bobby Koreckey (Minnesota) and Jose Mijares (Minnesota) also pitched .1 inning each, with Korecky allowing a walk.
Rodriguez would be 0-for-2 in the game with a walk, Luis Maza (LA Dodgers) as 0-for-4, and Romero was 1-for-1 with a double and a walk.
The two teams rematch tonight at 7:30 PM AST.
Former Miracle pitcher Henry Bonilla (LA Angels) will be joining the Tigres on November 11th Aragua announced in a press release. Bonilla spent parts of the 2002 and 2003 seasons in Fort Myers, and played in the Twins organization from 2000 to 2006. Last season he posted a 5.78 ERA with a 12-8 record in 165 innings pitched (29 games) for the Salt Lake Bees of the Pacific Coast League.
IBaF World Cup
Team Australian lost to Team Cuba 3-2 Wednesday. From Australian Baseball:
Second baseman Luke Hughes started 3rd inning the rally with lead-off single, before centerfielder Trent Oeltjen followed suit with his second safe hit in as many tries.
When both runners were advanced on a perfectly executed sacrifice by Ben Risinger - all that was needed from Major League slugger Justin Huber was to lift a shallow fly into foul territory, just deep enough to score Hughes from third.
The hero on this occasion was Trent Oeltjen who laced a ‘hanging slider’ up the middle, plating Harman and giving the Aussies a 2-1 lead with his third single of the afternoon.
With the score painfully close, a trio of Aussie relievers took up where Wiltshire left off; as Adam Bright, Tristan Crawford and Brendan Wise all managed to set down the Cuban offence in order throughout the late innings – albeit with the at times superhuman help of their shortstop Harman.
This is really not a bad start for the Aussies, as the Cubans have dominated this tournament in the past.
Oeltjen was 3-for-4 with 1 RBI, Glenn Williams was 0-for-5, and Hughes was 1-for-4.
Panama topped Spain 5-0, Japan down South Africa 11-1, the USA blanked Mexico 3-0 (Brian Duensing did not play), Canada fell to Korea 5-0, and Venezuela picked up a win over Germany 8-0.
Minnesota's Rodney Gessmann pitched 1 inning allowing (what appears to be) 4 earned runs on 4 hits (but this does not tally with the linescore?). I believe he pitched the 7th and the 8th, but taken off in the 8th with no outs in favor of Mikro Heid.
It appears that Luke Van Mil is representing the Netherlands and former Miracle Tim Henkenjohann is representing Germany, as both pitched in Thursday's games.
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