South Korea and the US Move on in the WBC

South Korea edged Mexico 2-1 yesterday in the World Baseball:

Lee Seung-yeop smacked a two-run homer, Seo Jae-weong allowed just a run over the first 5 1/3 innings and Park Chan-ho closed out the tension-packed ninth inning, as South Korea defeated Mexico 2-1 in its World Baseball Classic second round opener in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday.

Korea is using the same formula in this round of the WBC that proved effective in the first round, great pitching, all the offensive provided Lee, Seung-yeop, and the game being closed out by Park Chan-ho.

Korea will try to use this formula again when they face the United States in their next game. The US beat Japan 4-3 in order to face South Korea:

Alex Rodriguez hit a bases-loaded, two-out single in the ninth to give the United States a 4-3 victory over Japan on Sunday in the opener of Round 2 in the inaugural World Baseball Classic after the losers appeared to be deprived of the go-ahead run.

However, the game wasn’t without controversy:

It looked as though Japan broke a 3-3 tie against Joe Nathan in the eighth when Akinori Iwamura flied to left with one out and the bases loaded. Tsuyoshi Nishioka beat Randy Winn’s throw home, and second base umpire Brian Knight ruled safe when Team USA appealed the play. But plate umpire Bob Davidson overruled the call following a brief discussion with the other umpires.

This win has got many Korean netizens in an uproar of CIA black helicopter conspiracy theories. The comments sections of the blogger formerly known as the Marmot provides translations of some of the choic quotes:

‘yangkees… no surprise’,

‘if Japan can be victimized like that, Korea watch out too’,

‘why is a US umpire umpiring in a US game?’,

‘it’s yangkees’ party so you didn’t have to watch what the result was going to be,
remember that they did the same thing to us not too long ago?’,

‘the umpire was also the extra US player’, ‘the umpire made the mistake, but I welcome the loss by Japan’,

‘the US was going to win no matter what, they’d call a hit by Japan, an out, they’d call a homerun a foul’.

“Conscienceless bastards…I’m sick of them!”

“I couldn’t be feeling better…because Japan lost and the U.S. is getting cursed!”

“The Yankee bastards are dirtier and crueler than the Jap bastards.”

“Yankees and the monkeys are all the same”

Just wait for the hatefest if the US team beats South Korea in the next game.