The United States defeated Japan on Wednesday, 4-2 in 11 innings*, to lock up the number three seed in this weekend’s elimination round. The schedule for the next three days is as follows:
Thursday, August 21
10:30 PM EST: Semifinal – South Korea (1) vs. Japan (4)
Friday, August 22
6:00 AM EST: Semifinal – Cuba (2) vs. United [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2008 U.S. Olympic Baseball Team’
21 Aug
Olympic Baseball Schedule: Four Games Left
20 Aug
Your Olympic Baseball Update
Man, now that Michael Phelps is out of the water and into the record books, these Olympics just seem to be flying by, don’t they? It feels like baseball just started a couple of days ago…now we’re nearing the end of preliminary play and getting ready to move on to the medal rounds. By Saturday, [...]
12 Aug
USA Baseball Schedule
OK, we’ve been very patient, waiting for our Bus League roster to finally take the field in Beijing. Wednesday is the day for their Olympic debut, and we’ll let you know when they’ll take to Wukesong Field:
Wednesday, August 13 – 6pm: USA vs Korea
Thursday, August 14 – 10:30am: Netherlands vs. USA
Friday, August 15 – 11:30am: [...]
23 Jul
Slight Tweaks to Olympic Roster
A couple weeks back, we announced our take on the 2008 Olympic Baseball roster. Since then, a few things have changed.
Colby Rasmus has withdrawn due to injury.
Geno Espineli was called up to San Francisco
Clayton Richard was called up to the White Sox
First guy on the list is probably extremely bummed. The other two are probably [...]
17 Jul
U.S. Olympic Roster Announced
So, the Olympic roster has been announced. There are many familiar Bus League names on the list, but USA Baseball presents them in a very clinical way, as if these were guys they just found on the street with no other attachment to baseball. In fact, a player is one of four things on this [...]
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