Cuba vs US for Baseball
World Cup Title
Cuba scored a 5-3
victory on Japan with
left pitcher Aroldis
Chapman and will play
the US Sunday for the
World Baseball Cup title
in Taiwan.
Chapman, 19, striked out
11 batters in eight
innings, and silenced
Japan to only one run
within three hits in the
7th inning and two more
in the 9th.
Cuba made three runs in
the 4th inning and
enhanced the score in
the 9th with two doubles
by Eduardo Paret and
central fielder Alfredo
Despaigne who scored the
5th run through hit by
third baseman Yulieski
Gourriel.
Relief and closer
pitcher Pedro Luis Lazo
pitched the 9th inning
but allowed Japan two
runs, with three hits,
including two doubles,
then Yunieski Maya made
the last out.
The US defeated Holland
5-0 and will play Cuba
12 months after winning
the Pre-Olympics in
Havana, but both teams
qualified for Beijing
2008. |
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