Baseball World Cup Pool G, Torino:
Taiwan – USA 3-14 (7)
USA 730 400 0 14 13 0 TPE 000 300 0 3 5 2
The duel between undefeated teams was over after just one half of an inning. Team USA scored seven runs in the opening frame en route to a 14-3 rout against Taiwan. Both squads had clean 3-0 records going into the game. Pedro Alvarez led the offense with three homeruns and six RBI. Terry Tiffee, Jon Weber and Lucas May also went deep. Hung-Yu Lin hit a two-run homerun for Taiwan. Todd Redmond gave up three runs on five hits in six solid innings for the win. Chu-Chien Hsu took the loss after one inning, five hits, seven runs (5 ER) and two bb.