Australia beat Taiwan in World Baseball Classic opener
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Tokyo: Australia got the World Baseball Classic underway with a 3 0 win over a Taiwan team cheered on by thousands of passionate fans in Tokyo in Thur...
Tokyo: Australia got the World Baseball Classic underway with a 3-0 win over a Taiwan team cheered on by thousands of passionate fans in Tokyo in Thursday's opening game.
Home runs from Robbie Perkins and Major League Baseball prospect Travis Bazzana got the 20-team international tournament started with a bang in front of a crowd of over 40,000 at the Tokyo Dome.
The overwhelming majority were supporting Taiwan, and Australia manager Dave Nilsson said it was "good we scored first to kind of limit the noise a little bit".
"I thought it was a good baseball day all round and we came out on the right side of it," he said.
Pool C also includes defending champions Japan as well as South Korea and the Czech Republic, with all games being played in Tokyo.
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