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Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster
Typical canadian classless. Who the fuck bunts in a 9-3 game in the 9th inning when you are winning??! You won the game at that point, why bunt to get on base? What the heck did you expect the opposing pitcher to do than to bean the next guy. Retarded team canada idiots.
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At least the Westboro Baptist Church agrees with you:
God Hates Canada
Guess you missed the part about the format in the World Baseball Classic which helped to cause the problem.
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World Baseball Classic: Odd rule leads to brawl between Mexico, Canada
A WBC tiebreaker relies heavily on runs, and the Canadians wanted to score again in the ninth. Third baseman Luis Cruz fielded Robinson's bunt and seemed to tell Leon to hit the next batter.
Managers from both teams blamed the tiebreaking rule that uses run differential to determine what team moves on to the next round.
"It was just simply a misunderstanding," Mexico manager Rick Renteria said. "In a normal setting, a normal professional setting I should say, a 9-3 bunt in that particular fashion would be kind of out of the ordinary."
The collision of WBC rules and the unwritten rules of the game led to the blowup, Renteria said.
"There's got to be another method other than scoring runs, running up the score on the opposing team," he said. "No one likes that. That's not the way baseball's supposed to be played."
"There's a point you got to stand up for yourself," said Morneau, a former MVP with the Twins. "We got hit for playing the game, and that happens, but at the same time you got to stand up for yourself."
Aceves was among four Mexican players thrown out - the angry Boston reliever was tossed to the ground by Philadelphia minor-league outfielder Tyson Gillies during the height of the altercation, then rushed to rejoin the fray.
Also ejected were Leon, Oliver Perez and Eduardo Arredondo of Mexico and Tosoni, Pete Orr and Jay Johnson of Canada.
Mexico finished its Pool D play at 1-2. Canada is 1-1 going into a game today against the United States.
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Mexico could have just forfeited, if they didn't want to contest the game anymore. After two brush back pitches, and a warning from the ump, the pitcher deliberately beaned the batter. Totally uncalled for (and I'm guessing you've never been beaned before).
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