China starts World Baseball Classic play Thursday

Thursday, 5th March 2009 ~ Maggie ~ Link ~ Comments (0)

China's games in the World Baseball Classic begin in Tokyo Thursday with a game against Japan at 5:30 p. m. Beijing time. After winning just one game in last August's Olympics, (an unexpected 8-7 victory over Taiwan), and being outscored 60-14 at Beijing's Wukesong Olympic Baseball Stadium, China is the definite underdog in its group. If China loses to Japan (as expected) it will face the loser of Korea vs. Taiwan (competing as Chinese Taipei) at 11:30 a.m. Beijing time, Saturday.

Outside of the MLB's own coverage, the best online, English-language source that we can find to follow all of the Team China action is provided by Michael Street at the Asian-American Sports Examiner. In this piece, Street breaks down some of China's key players—like pitcher Li Chenhao (李晨浩) and shortstop Zhang Yufeng--and takes a guess at what the batting order might look like.

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