25th Asian Baseball Championships – Japan Wins
by Gen on Aug.03, 2009 @ 9:09 am, under Other
Japan beat Korea earlier today, 7-1, to take their 17th Asian Baseball Championship.
Hirokazu Sawamura started and tossed 8 innings while giving up a run on 2 hits (he was actually throwing a no-hitter through 5).
Taiwan beat China, 13-1.
Final Standings
County Wins Losses Japan 3 0 Taiwan 2 1 Korea 1 2 China 0 3
Second Round Awards
MVP
Kiyota Ikuhiro （JPN）
Leading Hitter
Kiyota Ikuhiro （JPN）/ 6-for-10
Best Earned Run
Liao Wen Yang (TAI)
Most Strike Outs
Nomura Yusuke (JPN) / 10 K
Most RBIs
Wu Chung Cun (TAI) / 7 RBIs
Most Home Runs
Wu Chung Cun (TAI) / 2 HRs
Fighting Spirit Award
Luo Yobin (CHN)
Best Nine
Pos Player RHP Tomoyuki Sugano (JPN) LHP Yoon Ji Woong (KOR) C Lee Tae Won (KOR) 1B Sasaki Tsutomu (JPN) 2B Kuo Min Jen (TAI) 3B Miyazawa Kentaro (JPN) SS Lin Han (TAI) OF Kiyota Ikuhiro (JPN) OF Wu Chung Chun (TAI) OF Im Hang Yong (KOR) DH Lin Hung Yu (TAI)
August 3rd, 2009 on 12:01 pm
Taiwain is making progress. I didn’t thought they were this strong.
August 4th, 2009 on 1:13 am
Dude, Taiwan’s baseball team was fully pro like a few years ago but they deteriorated during the 2004~2008 period. Now they’re back in action! Read ur baseball history books and u’ll know. top 4 baseball teams in teh world 1) Cuba 2) Japan 3) Korea 4) Taiwan 5) U.S>. They got a silver in teh Barcelona Olympics and came 4th for most of the pervious olympics man. And the asian championships…taiwan’s usually in the top 3 (they came 2nd in 2006).
This is the usual historic trend:
Cuba owns everyone usually.
Taiwan usually def Korea.
Korea usually def Japan.
Japan usually def Taiwan.
The U.S, netherlands, canada, china etc r like down at the bottom.
btw China beating Taiwan in the 2008 olympics was due to schedule rigging by the Olympics host (China). They onyl got like a few hours slp!
Just to make a point
August 4th, 2009 on 1:43 am
Actually, the current rankings (according to the IBAF) are as follows:
You can see the full list here.