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World Baseball Classic: U.S. beats Japan, will face Puerto Rico in final
LOS ANGELES – Dodger Stadium will play host to the championship game of the World Baseball Classic for the second time Wednesday. This time, the host nation will have a chance to win the tournament on its own turf.
Team USA beat Japan, 2-1, on Tuesday before an announced crowd of 33,462. Now an undefeated Puerto Rico squad, which beat the U.S. in San Diego last Friday, awaits.
Tied, 1-1, in the top of the eighth inning, Brandon Crawford singled and Ian Kinsler doubled against Japanese right-hander Kodai Senga to put runners on second and third. The next batter, Adam Jones, tapped a weak ground ball to third baseman Nobuhiro Matsuda.
Kinsler took off on contact and scored without a throw when Matsuda momentarily lost his handle on the ball.
The RBI groundout wasn’t as photogenic as Jones’ home run-robbing catch in the stands in a semifinal game against the Dominican Republic on Saturday. But it was no less important to Team USA reaching its first championship game in the fourth iteration of the WBC.
www.ocregister.com/articles/art-747220-length-hoornstra.html
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gotta love Crawdaddy!
