A quick roundup of the games.
Puerto Rico 3 – Holland 1.
When I heard that Manager Jose Oquendo what asked how he would handle his pen if he was trailing was beside himself at the suggestion that he would be trailing, that insulted me as a fan and made me adamantly a fan of the Dutch, They held to that one run lead in the 8th thanks to incredible pitching and defense including two men thrown out at the plate but there are only so many walks you can give up before a good team is going to break through.
I’m not sure if holding back Robbie Cortemas is going to haunt them but if they can somehow get a lead against the Dominican team that is out for revenge big time, keeping him back is going to turn out to be a stroke of genius.
I hit the sack and didn’t watch the South Africa/Mexico game. It was not any kind of a surprise to me. What will be interesting is who they are going to be playing.
I couldn’t watch the Italy Canada game. If anyone told me that Canada was going to be the first team bounced from the tourney in group C I would have laughed at the suggestion. The Canadians aren’t laughing now. Italy apparently played a good game. The question is will they be underestimated again?
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