Dutch send Cubans home with close win at WBC
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March 12, 2013, Tuesday
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KALIAN Sams drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning yesterday as the Netherlands beat Cuba 7-6 to advance to the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic.
Sams' deep fly ball to centerfield off Cuba reliever Diosdany Castillo at Tokyo Dome allowed Andruw Jones to score from third and touched off a wild celebration by the Netherlands.
Andrelton Simmons hit a two-run homer off Cuba reliever Norberto Gonzalez in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game at 6-6 just after Cuba had taken a 6-4 lead.
The Netherlands will join Japan in the March 17-19 championship round in San Francisco.
On Sunday, Team USA battled back to overcome Canada 9-4 and advance to the second round in a do-or-die game at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.
Trailing 2-3 with two innings to play, the United States scored three runs in the eighth on a booming two-run double into the left-center gap by Adam Jones and Shane Victorino's RBI-single for a 5-3 lead.
After Canada, sparked earlier by a two-run homer from Michael Saunders, crept back to 5-4 with a run in its half of the eighth, the Americans put the elimination game out of reach with four more runs in the ninth on a run-scoring single by Jonathan Lucroy and a bases-clearing double from Eric Hosmer.
"Like Joe (US manager Torre) said last night, it's Game Seven," Baltimore Orioles outfielder Jones said about its Pool D finale. "We came swinging the bats, just like Canada did."
The victory allowed the US (2-1) to join Italy into the second round to be played in Miami starting today. Rounding out the foursome in the next stage will be Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic from Pool C.
Canada had also entered Sunday's game with a 1-1 record after defeating Mexico 14-4 on Saturday in a game that was marred by a benches-clearing incident.
Sams' deep fly ball to centerfield off Cuba reliever Diosdany Castillo at Tokyo Dome allowed Andruw Jones to score from third and touched off a wild celebration by the Netherlands.
Andrelton Simmons hit a two-run homer off Cuba reliever Norberto Gonzalez in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game at 6-6 just after Cuba had taken a 6-4 lead.
The Netherlands will join Japan in the March 17-19 championship round in San Francisco.
On Sunday, Team USA battled back to overcome Canada 9-4 and advance to the second round in a do-or-die game at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.
Trailing 2-3 with two innings to play, the United States scored three runs in the eighth on a booming two-run double into the left-center gap by Adam Jones and Shane Victorino's RBI-single for a 5-3 lead.
After Canada, sparked earlier by a two-run homer from Michael Saunders, crept back to 5-4 with a run in its half of the eighth, the Americans put the elimination game out of reach with four more runs in the ninth on a run-scoring single by Jonathan Lucroy and a bases-clearing double from Eric Hosmer.
"Like Joe (US manager Torre) said last night, it's Game Seven," Baltimore Orioles outfielder Jones said about its Pool D finale. "We came swinging the bats, just like Canada did."
The victory allowed the US (2-1) to join Italy into the second round to be played in Miami starting today. Rounding out the foursome in the next stage will be Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic from Pool C.
Canada had also entered Sunday's game with a 1-1 record after defeating Mexico 14-4 on Saturday in a game that was marred by a benches-clearing incident.
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