With very poor offensive production and poor work on the ground, The Colombian national team was shut out by Canada 5-0, in its third game in Group C, and was on the verge of elimination at the World Baseball Classic.
This Wednesday (9 p.m., Win Sports TV), Colombia will try to break the bank against the super favorite of the group, the local team, the United States, with the idea of reaching a record of two matches won and two lost , which, pending other results, allows them to qualify for the quarter-finals via the regulatory tiebreaker.
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Colombia did not have a good offensive match
After the very low batting power in the last two games (also a loss, this one against Great Britain 7-5) and the ineffectiveness of their starting and relief pitchers, the possibility of a victory seems be a miracle.
This Tuesday, at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona (USA), the Canadians scored their first goal at the start of the fourth inning.
In the next three innings, the Colombian relief combined to maintain the difference with a lot of anguish and shock, without the help of the offense, which did not wake up. In the eighth inning, Canada made it 2-0 (triple and single RBI), and in the top of the ninth inning, a three-run homer made the final score 5-0.
Colombia had 5 scattered hits, Canada 10 and, in addition, had a solid defensive game with four double-dealing at lightning speed.
In the event of a tie (as happened in Group A, in which Cuba and Italy, the qualifiers, finished with a 2-2 record, as the Netherlands, Taipei and Panama were eliminated), the first tiebreakers are, in their order: direct score among those tied, lowest ratio of runs scored divided by defensive outs among those tied, lowest ratio of earned runs allowed divided by defensive outs among those tied, highest batting average among those tied, and pitches.
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