Game played on

Wednesday 18th February 2009

'Very Low Submariner'

Yu-Cheng Liao started for Chinese Taipei
The pitcher Brett faced in his first and second plate appearances

Plate Appearance Number One
AUSTRALIA 1st - Beresford, J flied out to cf. Roneberg, B walked Huber, J reached on an error by 3b; Roneberg, B advanced to second Snelling, C walked; Huber, J advanced to second; Roneberg, B advanced to third Risinger, B singled to left field, RBI; Snelling, C advanced to second; Huber, J advanced to third; Roneberg, B scored Collins, M struck out looking. Kimpton, N struck out swinging. 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 3 LOB

What an "interesting" pitcher to face!! - now, click on the 'play' button ......

Plate Appearance Number Three
AUSTRALIA 4th - Chiang, C-M to p for Liao, Y-Ch. Roneberg, B singled to right field Roneberg, B stole second Huber, J walked. Snelling, C reached on a dropped fly by cf; Huber, J advanced to second; Roneberg, B advanced to third Risinger, B reached on an error by 3b, RBI; Snelling, C advanced to second; Huber, J advanced to third; Roneberg, B scored Collins, M flied out to cf, SAC, RBI; Huber, J scored, unearned. Kimpton, N grounded into double play 2b to ss to 1b; Risinger, B out on the play. 2 runs, 1 hit, 2 errors, 1 LOB

This audio file is a long one!! - and it includes Brett's hit, stealing second base, running the bases, and coming in to score - now, click on the 'play' button ......

Plate Appearance Number Four
AUSTRALIA 6th - Wu, C-D to c for Kuo, I-F. Cheng, K-W to p for Chiang, C-M. Roneberg, B out at first 1b to p Huber, J walked. Snelling, C singled to right field; Huber, J advanced to second. Risinger, B walked; Snelling, C advanced to second; Huber, J advanced to third. Collins, M flied out to rf, SAC, RBI; Snelling, C advanced to third; Huber, J scored. Kimpton, N singled to left field, RBI; Risinger, B advanced to second; Snelling, C scored. Berg, D fouled out to 1b. 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB

The radio broadcast had been dropping "in-and-out" all evening - and during this plate appearance it was "out"!!

Plate Appearance Number Five
AUSTRALIA 7th - Wearne, S flied out to cf. Moore, S flied out to lf. Roneberg, B flied out to 2b 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB

A very quick at bat!! - now, click on the 'play' button ......

Huber sparks Aussie offence in Game Three
Showing some great hitting form during the Victorian leg of the Friendly Series, Justin Huber
was the catalyst as Australia thumped Chinese Taipei 9-3 in Game Three at Waverley this evening

Sporting a "new look" for this game with their grey strip, Australia opened scoring hostilities with one in the first, compliments of a Risinger single that scored Roneberg, even though three runners were subsequently stranded on base

But the game was blown open in the third as Huber launched a home run over the leftfield wall and the Taiwanese conceded a third run for the innings on an error

After that it was one-way traffic

Although Chinese Taipei hit back with two in the equaliser, the Aussie big guns were merciless in blasting another two in the fourth and two in the sixth before Huber capped off the evening with a monster solo blast into the gum trees at rightfield in the top of eight, despite a leftfield shot by Yi-Chuan Lin in response

While Huber’s effort was outstanding – as Chinese Taipei tried five of its best on the hill – he had plenty of support from Brett Roneberg (two hits), Chris Snelling (two hits), Ben Risinger (two hits and two RBIs) and Michael Collins (two RBIs)

The Australians played errorless defence and again availed themselves of the opportunity to expose a number of players to this level of baseball
Grant Karlsen and Scott Wearne again shared catching duties, Scott Moore hit the ball cleanly and had a solid half-game at shortstop, while eighteen year-old Blake Cunningham had an innings on the mound

Adam Blackley started for Australia and, although not quite at his best - in conceding two runs - will be better for the outing
Western Australian Liam Hendricks was impressive over two, while Ryan Searle, Adam Bright and Cunningham all chipped in with some work before Russell Spear closed out the last

The win in itself was of little consequence, but the manner in which Australia went about its work was impressive again, with at least a half of the Chinese Taipei squad expected to play in the World Baseball Classic and the Aussies able to exercise a similar dominance as they did in Game One

Support from the passionate Taiwanese baseball community was fantastic - again - in helping to create a real atmosphere for this game
Baseball interests are urged to come out and show their support on Thursday evening, with the final international scheduled to be played at Napier Park, Glen Waverley, starting at 5.00pm

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