2009-03-07 World Baseball Classic Games

[1992casey]

Schedule:

• Japan 14, Korea 2 (Tokyo) -- ESPN2, ESPN Deportes (Gameday)
  
• Canada vs. United States (Toronto) -- 1:00 PM CST -- ESPN, ESPN Deportes, MLB.TV (Gameday)
  
• Italy vs. Venezuela (Toronto) -- 7:00 PM CST -- MLBN, ESPN Deportes, MLB.TV (Gameday)
  
• Netherlands vs. Dominican Republic (San Juan) -- 10:00 AM CST -- ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, MLB.TV (Gameday)
• Panama vs. Puerto Rico (San Juan) -- 4:00 PM CST -- ESPN, ESPN Deportes, MLB.TV (Gameday)
  

GormanHarvey reports that Nelson Cruz started for the Dominican team today and singled in his first AB.

[BrewCrewForever]

Netherlands beating the DR would be a HUGE upset.

 

Can't wait to see Team USA an Braun start their journey to redemption today.

[GormanHarvey]

N Cruz K'd swinging in his 2nd AB. 3-2 Netherlands now but the DR has the bases loaded with one out

[trwi7]

Wow. Huge double play to get out of the inning. Netherlands still leads.

[GormanHarvey]

And just like that Neth gets out of the jam - Tejada hit into a 5-3 DP to end the threat

[GormanHarvey]

N Cruz just hit a laser to left for an out

[giffted1]

I know it was against mediocre talent, but Pedro looked pretty good. Methinks his agent will be getting some calls.

[Schlitz001]

A Randall Simon sighting as he gets hit by a pitch. I never knew he was Dutch.

[trwi7]

Jason Bay playing CF. That should be pretty interesting and hilarious.

[GormanHarvey]

This ump is inconsistent to quite inconsistent

[1992casey]

Here are two more Gamedays:

 

Netherlands vs. Dominican Republic

 

Canada vs. United States

 

I've edited them into the lead.

 

Gamedays can be popped up from this page as they're made available:

 

2009 Tournament Schedule By Venue

 

They should make it easier to focus on discussion of the game rather than play by play.

[trwi7]

Rick Sutcliffe is brutal. He wonders if Derek Jeter going to the opposite field during batting practice had anything to do with McCann getting that RBI. What the hell?

[ttsather]

Jake Peavy is a complete madman.

 

You can hear him cursing himself out when he misses.

[GormanHarvey]

Youk-Dogg ties it up with a solo shot!

[ttsather]

Jeter out for Rollins.

 

Suticliffe wonders if there's something wrong with him. Other than being an inferior player?

[Schlitz001]

Nice read by Braun on the line drive by Matt Stairs.

[Pack87Man]

Braun makes an out and still runs the pitcher.

 

To be fair, he ripped the ball, just right at Teahen at 3rd base. After seeing the HR given up to Dunn and another ball pounded, the Canadian manager had seen enough.

[Schlitz001]

What's the deal with the advertisement behind home plate at the Rogers Center? Whenever a player steps in front of it, it looks like he's standing in front of a green screen.

[ttsather]

What's the deal with the advertisement behind home plate at the Rogers Center? Whenever a player steps in front of it, it looks like he's standing in front of a green screen.

Not trying to be facetious, but it's . . . probably a green screen. Many parks use them to rotate ads on TV screens.

[Pack87Man]

What's the deal with the advertisement behind home plate at the Rogers Center? Whenever a player steps in front of it, it looks like he's standing in front of a green screen.

That's because he is. A lot of those ad boards are green screens. Take a look at it next time you go to Miller Park. Nobody would allow that kind of ad directly in line with the pitcher's eye.

[Schlitz001]

I figured so much. It makes sense, I've just never seen it before or at least noticed it as much.

 

EDIT: I remember in the mid nineties the Brewers being the first team to use this type of advertising behind homeplate, but I never noticed a switch to digital/green screen ads.

[WisconsinSportsRule]

So much for Braun learning to be patient. Is that two or three AB's that he swung at the first pitch.

[Ennder]

Losing half of their bullpen to injuries is going to kill the US in this thing.

[tomwopat]

Lawrie in as a pinch runner.

[saget]

Take that Canucks!