Not Without Controversy
By Mr Opposite
I know how this is going. I am a sore loser, etc., but of course the Olympic Baseball final can't be without controversy. The Australians lost to Cuba 6-2. I am very glad that they got silver. I would have been happy with 4th. The Cubans deserve it. They're clearly a great team, but a decision in the 4th could have made it a completely different result. A 2-out hit that would have scored 2 runs (at the time it was 2-0 in favour of Cuba) was called out — despite being bobbled on the wall and then caught again by Cuban CF Carlos Tabares.
Australia manager Jon Deeble was ejected for excessively arguing with home plate umpire Willie Rodriguez over the play.
I know that talking about this is useless and I think that Cuba may have still won the game. But it can't not be said that had the game had a different result, if the correct ruling was made.
On a lighter note — going back to my previous blog about the tournament — I successfully picked exactly what would happen. Don't be too surprised. I 've always known I was a clairvoyant (despite my a 6 divisional picks at the start of the year being way off. You can go to the blog by clicking here.
