"Bad blood" USA v China baseball...

[Dakota]

Did any of you see that? It turned into quite a spectacle... malicious plowing over of the catcher, retaliation bean ball right to the ear, ejections, etc.

At first, you might think this was China and USA international rivalry going at it, until you look at who the manager was for the Chinese team.

It seemed to have started with normal, but hard-nosed play that resulted in a couple of hit batters and an F2 getting run over, knocking the Chinese F2 out of the game (hard hit, but didn't look malicious to me).

It escalated to the malicious contact taking out the second F2, followed by the bean ball pitch to the ear of the first runner who hit the first F2.

Obviously, I don't know the international baseball rules on malicious contact, so I can't say whether the plate umpire handled things correctly.

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Did any of you see that? It turned into quite a spectacle... malicious plowing over of the catcher, retaliation bean ball right to the ear, ejections, etc.

This is also being discussed at length on the baseball forum.

[SethPDX]

I don't know int'l rules either, but as has been posted on the baseball forum, this is big boy ball: If you block the plate, be ready to take a shot. China's American manager should know better.

[socalumps]

This is, in my opinion, a cheap shot!! And with the feelings worldwide towards(baseball has unfortunately been lumped with softball at times) Americans and their stick and ball sports already at an unfavorable pitch.......

Can't help either sport on an international level??

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/pla...elcode=sportbb


2 hour 28 minute 45 sec spot in video.

[DNTXUM P]

Originally Posted by socalumps

2 hour 28 minute 45 sec spot in video.

Thanks for posting the time. Those of us who rise before noon don't have time to watch the whole thing to find the incident.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by socalumps

Can't help either sport on an international level??

If anything, a heated rivalry will help the sport on an international level, except, of course, in the eyes of the self-righteous Frog.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Cheap shot. The runner was not attempting to score, but to take out the catcher.

I would not have hesitated to dump the runner.

[bellnier]

Awful lot of empty seats...