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Olympic baseball semifinals scheduled for tonight
2008-08-21 16:53
by Bob Timmermann

At 7:30 pm PT (10:30 am Beijing time on Friday), the first semifinal of the Olympic baseball tournament is scheduled to start and it will match up #1 Korea (7-0) and #4 Japan (4-3).

The starting pitchers for this affair are cloaked in secrecy. Tsuyoshi Wada started in Japan's 9-7 loss to Korea on Saturday and struck out 10 in 6 2/3 innings. Korea started Kwanghyun Kim against Japan. Here's a boxscore of their previous matchup. Korea won 9-7.

#2 Cuba (6-1) and #3 USA (5-2) will meet at 3 am PT Friday morning (6 pm Beijing) and that game should see veteran Norge Luis Vera square off against San Diego State prodigy Stephen Strasburg. Cuba beat the USA 5-4 in 11 innings in their previous matchup. Jayson Nix and Matt LaPorta should be able to play in the game.

Barry Newman of the Wall Street Journal reports that watching Olympic baseball has been anything but fun.

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2008-08-21 21:49:54
1.   caseybarker
Barry Newman wouldn't know fun if it bit him on the finger.
2008-08-21 23:07:46
2.   caseybarker
I wonder if Barry is at the speed-walking event.

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