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knight55
Does anyone have a link to a box score for this and the first game?
Potsu
One of his RedSox nicknames is Porky Pig...
kwatt
What happened to Australian players? Lost twice? Not serious about games?
Proffessor
And I did not even know Aussies can play baseball...lol!
funkymofo
People who can't make the cricket team play baseball in Australia, so we're not much chop at baseball- though I believe we beat Japan in the Sydney Olympics.
terebiko
Some of the Australian players have MLB contracts. Not many, but some...
blvtzpk
Australian national cricket players used to play baseball outside of the cricket season - well, according to something I head Greg Chappell say once. But you would be hard pressed to find a baseball game to watch in Australia - on TV or on the diamond, that's for sure. It's quite a minor sport in comparison with the other pursuits.
TexasAggie
They ran a snippet of the game on ESPN2 here in the States. Man, Matsuzaka really porked up in the off-season. The ESPN commentator said Dice-K looks like a mini-van.
Classic.
kwatt
Most Japanese prefer "Yakyuu" game than baseball. In game they love many kinds of play actions such as all players hit balls small (not homerun), get 1st base, move/steal 2nd, 3rd base, and exciting homebase, get more points and much fun about defence play. Japanese love "Yakyuu" not baseball.
Proffessor
kwatt, please come again?
helloklitty
Australians are pretty athletic. I think they could do any sport, when they are not drunk, that they put their minds, too.
ultradodgy
I think Kwatt is referring to "small ball", a pretty common thing in MLB that focuses on small victories (bunts, singles, tight fielding) to advance the scoring.
So before this becomes some pseudo-social intellectual digression on Japan playing as a team and Western teams playing as individuals, let's just say that this is by no means a strategy that goes unused by the majors in the US...