2008 IBAF Women’s Baseball World Cup
by Gen on Aug.29, 2008 @ 1:25 pm, under Other
The ladies of Japan have taken the Gold at the 2008 IBAF Women's Baseball World Cup. It was quite an impressive romp as they scored 77 runs in 6 games to go undefeated in the tournament.
Incidentally, I haven't heard one peep of this on any of the Japanese news programs. Perhaps this tournament isn't as big of a deal as the Olympics, but it's about as close to the WBC as it gets for the women right now and I think more exposure can only mean good things for the sport.
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August 24
1 2 3 4 5 R H E
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Japan 1 1 5 1 3 11 7 0
Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
August 25
1 2 3 4 5 R H E
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Canada 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 2
Japan 3 1 0 0 8 12 11 0
August 26
1 2 3 4 R H E
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Japan 5 3 14 2 24 20 1
Hong Kong 0 0 0 1 1 2 5
August 27
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
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Australia 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 8 4
Japan 1 3 1 1 1 3 x 10 15 1
August 28
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
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Japan 3 0 1 0 1 1 3 9 15 2
USA 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 5 13 2
August 29
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
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Canada 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 12 2
Japan 0 0 0 4 7 0 x 11 11 1Code:
Final Standings Japan 6-0 Gold Canada 4-2 Silver USA 4-2 Bronze Australia 2-4 Chinese Taipei 3-2 Korea 2-3 India 1-4 Hong Kong 0-5
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Team Stats AVG AB PA R H 2B 3B HR RBI K BB IBB GIDP SB CS .476 166 225 77 79 15 4 2 62 10 36 5 0 16 2 W L IP BF AB R ER ERA H 2B 3B HR SO BB IBB 6 0 35.0 149 137 12 10 2.57 41 4 1 0 21 0 0
Congratulations to the Japan's Women's baseball team!
I'll update this post as pictures become available.
August 29th, 2008 on 8:14 pm
Congrats to Japan. It looks like they had a pretty good offensive team. There hasn’t been a lot of buzz on this tournament here in the states either. BTW, one of the U.S. players, Megan Meidlinger, is from the D.C. area.
August 30th, 2008 on 6:49 am
I think most people in Japan don’t really follow female baseball players much. I told my girlfriend and she didn’t even realize that Japan had a team playing at the tournament. There is one player that has recently gotten some press: Ayumi Kataoka (片岡安祐美).
I don’t really remember hearing much about women’s baseball back when I was in the States, has it grown any over the last few years?
I think the last big thing I remember hearing about were the Silver Bullets, but that didn’t really last that long.
August 30th, 2008 on 7:48 am
I think, at least in terms of the media, that it’s probably not as popular as it was during the Silver Bullet years. I remember Baseball Weekly used to cover them on a regular basis. But the current site for AWBF lists a few leagues around the country. I would think it has to be tough for them competing with softball which has grown a bit in stature here. ESPN regularly covers college and national softball.