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**Nebo86** · 09-23-2012, 10:53 PM

Japan: Fighters beat Lions to consolidate first place

Hokkaido Nippon Ham's Dustin Molleken pitches during the Fighters' 6-2 win over the Lions

Taiwan: Monkeys beat the Elephants 8-6 for second-half title

South Korea: KBO Scores and Standings

9/23:
SK Wyverns 3 - 1 Doosan Bears
KIA Tigers 7 - 0 Nexen Heroes
LG Twins 1 - 3 Lotte Giants

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           GP     W    L   T    Win%   GB

1 Samsung 121    71   48   2   .597   0.0

2 SK      121    65   53   3   .551   5.5

3 Lotte   125    63   56   6   .529   8.0

4 Doosan  122    62   57   3   .521   9.0

5 Nexen   124    58   64   2   .475  14.5

6 KIA     123    55   62   6   .470  15.0

7 LG      123    52   67   4   .437  19.0

8 Hanwha  123    51   70   2   .421  21.0

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**Nebo86** · 09-25-2012, 12:24 AM

Japan: Eagles stay in playoff contention

Tohoku Rakuten's Masahiro Tanaka pitches during the Golden Eagles' 3-1 win over the Hawks on Monday.

Switzerland: Bern Cardinals, Embrach Mustangs victorious on first Playoff Weekend

**Nebo86** · 09-25-2012, 06:21 PM

Olympics: Baseball pitching shortened format for Olympic inclusion

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Regensburg, Germany (heinnews) – Baseball’s world governing body knows that Major League Baseball will not shut its season down for nearly two weeks to send its players to the Olympics. So the IBAF is pitching a new shortened format as the focus of its Olympic inclusion bid, hoping the IOC will consider it a home run for the 2020 Olympics.

IBAF president Riccardo Fraccari told heinnews that the body will be proposing an eight-team baseball tournament with two round robin groups of four teams that lasts only six days.

“There will be three days of group games, a rest day and then the semi-finals and finals,” said Fraccari.

This would shorten the amount of time MLB players and athletes from other professional leagues around the world would miss from their clubs and leagues. The previous Olympic baseball tournaments also had eight teams but they were all in one round robin group, meaning a total of 10 days for the games but not including the nations travelling to and from the Olympics

“If I go to MLB and ask them to shut down the season for 10 days it’s not going to happen,” said Fraccari.

“I think this is more realistic.”

Fraccari was in Regensburg, Germany for the World Baseball Classic qualifier. He was busy answering questions by an IOC evaulation team, looking into baseball’s eventual bid.

“The IOC isn’t saying anything of course. But they ask very many things,” said Fraccari.

“They want to know about how we organise the event, how we select the teams, the umpires, etc. And we gave them all the information. But my impression is that they were really impressed with the global organization and the attendance here.”

Baseball is on a shortlist of sports trying to make the Olympics. The IOC kicked baseball and softball out of the 2012 Olympics in July 2005. It was the first sport to be voted out of the Summer Games since polo for the 1936 Olympics.

The IOC’s biggest issues were with baseball’s anti-doping regulations as well as including professional athletes in the games.

Fracarri said baseball has imposed much stricter doping guidelines, including blood testing, making baseball one of the few sports which allow blood samples to be analysed. And he is hoping the shortened format will be enough to convince MLB to let their players go – should baseball get the nod.

The baseball and softball federations are expected to meet in October to form a singular federation before submitting a bid to the IOC executive board in December.

The IOC executive board will compare baseball’s proposal with those of the other sports, including climbing, karate, roller sports, squash, wakeboard and wushu. The IOC board will select one single sport and submit it to the IOC Congress in Buenos Aires in September 2013. The 2020 Olympic host city will be chosen as well as the IOC president and if there will be a new or returning Olympic sport.

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**Nebo86** · 09-27-2012, 11:04 PM

Japanese Baseball and Softball Welcome African Representative’s Visit to Tokyo

**Nebo86** · 10-02-2012, 12:22 AM

International: IBAF Men’s Baseball World Rankings Update after WBC Qualifiers

Asia: 5 Teams compete for Baseball Championship in Northern Provinces of Iran

**Nebo86** · 10-02-2012, 08:53 PM

Japan: Marines deal blow to Lions' pennant hopes

Yakult's Ryosuke Yagi pitches during the Swallows' 5-0 victory over the Giants on Monday — the first win of his pro career.

South Korea: KBO reaches milestone of 7 million spectators

Winter Leagues: Caribbean Confederation has a productive meeting (Spanish)

Europe:

Switzerland: Therwil Flyers even Series against Embrach Mustangs

Austria: Wanderers one Win away from Championship

**Nebo86** · 10-03-2012, 11:30 AM

Taiwan: 2012 CPBL Taiwan Series schedule (Chinese)

Japan: Fighters clinch Pacific League pennant

Hokkaido Nippon Ham manager Hideki Kuriyama (above) is tossed into the air after the idle Fighters clinched the Pacific League pennant on Tuesday.

South Korea: Curtain about to rise for KBO playoffs