2008 Olympians, Part 2
August 21st, 2008
• UPDATE •
August 21, 2008 — Team USA Baseball has earned the #3 seed during the preliminary rounds of the baseball tournament. This means a rematch against Cuba in the semifinal game on Friday, August 22 (6 p.m. Beijing = 6 a.m. EDT/4 a.m. MDT). #4-seed Japan will play undefeated #1-seed South Korea in the other semifinal game scheduled for earlier that day (10:30 a.m. Beijing = August 21, 10:30 p.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. MDT). The winners of the semifinals proceed to the gold/silver medal game; the losers play for the bronze.
The gold/silver medal game is scheduled for Saturday August 23 (6 p.m. Beijing = 6 a.m. EDT/4 a.m. MDT), preceded by the bronze medal game (10:30 a.m. Beijing = August 21, 10:30 p.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. MDT). The medals ceremony takes place after the finish of the gold/silver medal game (9 p.m. Beijing = August 21, 9:00 a.m. EDT/7:00 a.m. MDT) BTW, many thanks to the folks at NBC.com for making the live and archived baseball broadcasts available via their website:*
*You’ll need a high-speed Internet connection and plenty of RAM for this to work. Also, I should point out this is a bare-bones video feed. There is no voice-over or soundtrack, and minimal written commentary and/or statistical overlays. You might want a pen and paper handy to keep track of pitch counts and baserunners.
As for the status of our two favorite Olympians, you can peruse their stats and game boxscores at USA Baseball. In summary, Kevin Jepsen has faced 12 batters in 3 appearances for 3.2 IP, 0.00 ERA, 4 SO and 1 BB. Matt Brown has started in 7 of 7 preliminary games and is batting .240 (6 for 25) with 6 RBI, 5 BB and 7 SO. Defensively, Matt’s played four games at 3B and two games at 1B (and one as DH) with 1 E, 12 A (assists) and 20 PO (put-outs).
And lastly, I found some photos of Kevin and Matt going for gold in Beijing. Bye for now!
 U.S. versus China Taipei, slide #7 SPACER TEXT |
 U.S. versus China Taipei SPACER TEXT |
 U.S. versus Netherlands SPACER TEXT |
 U.S. versus Canada SPACER TEXT |
 U.S. versus South Korea SPACER TEXT |
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