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Asia Winter Baseball League 2016: Europe no match for CPBL

After a surprising rout of the KBO, team Europe wasn’t quite a match for the CPBL representatives. The foundation of the loss was built in the first two innings when the CPBL scored seven runs. Eventually Europe lost 14-4.

Starting pitcher Taylor Clemensia recorded two quick outs in the first inning but then could not prevent the CPBL to score a run as the defense faltered. In the next inning,…

Asia Winter Baseball League 2016: NPB East out of Europe’s league.

The Japanese teams seem to be out of team Europe’s league. Team Europe started with the best possible lineup (hitting wise) as the first six in the lineup all had a +.300 batting average at the start of the game. After four innings the team trailed 4-0 even though the offense collected as many hits as their opponent.

Europe’s starting pitcher Artur Strzalka did not get much help from his defense…

Asia Winter Baseball League 2016: Europe gives it away in final two innings

After a day of rest, team Europe took on the NPB East team (which is a kind of all star team of the NPB Ni-Gun League (minor league) of the NPB’s Central League (one of the two Japanese Major Leagues). The Dutch managed to tie the game after trailing by three runs but eventually gave it away thanks to a couple of errors and lost 8-4.

On the pitching of Spain’s Daniel Alvarez,  Japan took a 2-0…