Bengochea Leads USA Past Chinese Taipei 3-1
Aug. 1, 2000
Coral Gables, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) – UCLA’s Josh Karp, Miami’s Kiki Bengochea and Cal-State Fullerton’s Kirk Saarloos combined to toss a four-hitter as the USA National Team defeated Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), 3-1, in front of 3,100 fans at Eldredge Park. The victory improved Team USA’s record to 20-3-1 on the 2000 Qwest Red, White and Blue Tour, while Chinese Taipei dropped to 1-8 on its tour of the United States. The Americans have defeated Chinese Taipei in all eight meetings between the teams this summer.
Bengochea came on in relief to start the seventh inning and earned the win to improve to 3-0 this season. The right hander has not allowed an earned run in 17 innings of work this summer. He struck out one in two hitless innings. Karp started and lasted six innings, allowing one unearned run, four hits and a pair of walks while striking out seven batters. Saarloos finished the game with a perfect ninth to pick up his third save.
Georgia Tech’s Mark Teixeira broke a scoreless tie in the fifth with an RBI groundout that allowed Clemson’s Jeff Baker to score the game’s first run. Chinese Taipei tied the score in the sixth by scoring an unearned run on a squeeze bunt. Team USA regained the lead in the eighth inning on RBI singles by Arizona State’s Casey Myers and SW Missouri State’s Ryan Howard to go up 3-1.
Notes: The victory runs Team USA’s unbeaten streak to 14 consecutive games. The National Team tied the Cape Cod All-Stars 2-2 in Chatham, MA, after winning it’s last 12 games. Team USA’s 12-game winning streak ties last season’s longest streak, set July 21 – August 7. The USA National Team’s last loss came in a 2-1 defeat by Korea in Tucson, Ariz. on July 5.
BOXSCORE
USA National Team at Taiwan Jul 30, 2000 at Orleans, Mass.
USA National Team 3 (20-3-1) Taiwan 1 (1-8)
AB R H RBI AB R H RBI
Lewis rf/lf 4 0 0 0 Chun-Lin 3b 4 0 1 0Burke 2b 4 0 1 0 Chin-Tien 3b 0 0 0 0Teixeira dh 5 0 1 1 Chang-Ming ss 4 0 2 0Nady lf/1b 5 1 0 0 Szu-Chi dh 3 1 0 0Gautreau 3b 4 0 0 0 Ching-Ping rf 4 0 0 0Boyd cf 4 1 2 0 Chih-Wei 1b 4 0 1 0Myers c 4 0 2 1 Wu-Hsiung lf 2 0 0 1Budde pr/c 0 0 0 0 Cheng-Min ph 1 0 0 0Howard 1b 4 0 1 1 Chin-Te 2b 2 0 0 0Crosby pr/ss 0 0 0 0 Chung-Wei ph 1 0 0 0Baker ss 1 1 0 0 Chih-Kang c 2 0 0 0Merritt ph/rf 1 0 0 0 Chieh-Chuan ph/c 2 0 0 0Karp p 0 0 0 0 Hsien-Ming cf 3 0 0 0Bengochea p 0 0 0 0 Chung-Nan p 0 0 0 0Saarloos p 0 0 0 0 Chih-Chiang p 0 0 0 0
Totals…… 36 3 7 3 Totals…… 32 1 4 1
Score by innings: R H E———————————————-USA National Team 000 010 020 – 3 7 2Taiwan 000 001 000 – 1 4 3———————————————-
E – Gautreau, Baker, Chun-Lin, Chin-Tien, Chin-Te. LOB – USA 10, Taiwan 7.2B – Myers, Chang-Ming. SH – Wu-Hsiung. SB – Szu-Chi, Chih-Wei.
IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF Fly Gnd
Karp 6.0 4 1 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 23 26 4 7Bengochea W 2-0 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 5Saarloos S,3 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 2
Chung-Nan L 0-3 7.1 7 3 2 3 7 0 0 1 0 31 35 5 9Chih-Chiang 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 3 2
HBP – by Chung-Nan (Baker). PB – Chih-Kang.
Strikeouts – Burke, Teixeira, Nady 2, Gautreau, Myers, Howard, Szu-Chi 2,Chih-Wei, Wu-Hsiung 2, Chung-Wei, Chih-Kang, Chieh-Chuan, Hsien-Ming. Walks – Lewis, Burke, Baker, Szu-Chi, Chin-Te.
2000 Qwest, Red, White and Blue Tour Overall Statistics(All games Sorted by Batting avg)
Record: 20-3-1 Home 10-2-0 Away: 10-1-1
Player AVG GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-SBA PO A E FLD%
Mark Teixeira……. .379 23-22 87 18 33 6 1 3 18 50 .575 13 2 21 1 .466 1 0 9-12 11 27 3 .927Chris Burke……… .376 24-20 85 14 32 2 1 0 6 36 .424 7 2 17 0 .436 0 2 17-22 28 40 4 .944Tim Merritt……… .347 23-20 75 15 26 4 4 4 19 50 .667 10 0 19 1 .424 0 1 3-10 20 1 0 1.000Bobby Crosby…….. .333 22-16 60 11 20 6 0 1 13 29 .483 9 4 15 3 .452 0 0 5-9 20 37 4 .934Jake Gautreau……. .314 20-17 70 9 22 5 1 2 12 35 .500 5 1 26 1 .364 1 0 0-2 44 20 2 .970Richard Lewis……. .310 23-17 71 17 22 3 1 1 5 30 .423 10 3 16 2 .417 0 0 12-15 19 42 2 .968Casey Myers……… .280 16-15 50 9 14 3 0 0 4 17 .340 3 3 12 1 .351 1 0 0-0 114 5 0 1.000Ryan Howard……… .273 19-14 55 9 15 2 0 3 14 26 .473 13 0 18 0 .412 0 0 2-2 93 6 1 .990Xavier Nady……… .263 18-18 76 11 20 5 0 1 8 28 .368 7 0 17 0 .325 0 0 4-6 86 10 2 .980Patrick Boyd…….. .262 19-17 65 10 17 2 0 3 9 28 .431 5 4 20 0 .347 1 1 7-9 19 3 1 .957Jeff Baker………. .174 17-12 46 6 8 2 1 0 4 12 .261 4 2 17 3 .269 0 0 4-4 9 24 3 .917Ryan Budde………. .146 20-12 48 6 7 4 0 0 2 11 .229 5 0 16 0 .226 0 1 0-1 154 25 2 .989
Totals………….. .296 24-24 859 154 254 49 10 19 131 380 .442 103 25 232 13 .385 6 5 68-97 672 292 33 .967Opponents……….. .180 24-24 778 51 140 16 1 2 43 164 .211 82 13 290 18 .268 3 12 39-55 646 251 30 .968
LOB – Team (197), Opp (165). DPs turned – Team (23), Opp (15). IBB – Team (5), Teixeira 2, Merritt 1, Gautreau 1, Burke 1.Picked off – Burke 2, Teixeira 1, Baker 1.
(All games Sorted by Earned run avg)
Player ERA W-L APP GS CG SHO/CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR BF B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA
Kiki Bengochea…… 0.00 3-0 11 1 0 0/4 1 17.0 5 0 0 6 18 0 0 0 63 .089 0 0 0 0 1Zane Carlson…….. 0.48 0-0 12 0 0 0/3 1 18.2 12 4 1 8 15 2 0 0 74 .190 1 1 0 0 2Kirk Saarloos……. 0.49 1-0 14 0 0 0/3 3 18.1 8 2 1 5 24 1 0 0 66 .131 0 0 1 0 0Dewon Brazelton….. 0.59 4-0 10 4 0 0/2 0 30.1 20 4 2 6 37 3 0 0 113 .190 0 1 0 0 1Len DiNardo……… 0.76 4-0 6 6 0 0/1 0 23.2 16 4 2 11 30 2 0 0 94 .203 2 2 0 1 1Mark Prior………. 1.29 1-2 4 4 0 0/1 0 21.0 11 3 3 10 33 1 0 0 83 .157 0 1 0 1 1Josh Karp……….. 1.38 3-0 5 5 0 0/1 0 26.0 19 8 4 10 30 1 0 0 110 .202 3 2 0 0 4Jon Switzer……… 2.41 1-0 10 0 0 0/2 0 18.2 11 6 5 2 25 0 0 1 71 .169 0 3 0 0 1Mike Gosling…….. 2.45 1-0 12 0 0 0/2 0 14.2 10 8 4 13 31 1 0 0 72 .182 3 3 0 1 0Anthony Reyes……. 2.92 2-1 5 4 0 0/0 0 24.2 22 8 8 7 30 2 1 1 97 .247 2 0 1 0 1
Totals………….. 1.29 20-3 24 24 0 5/5 6 224.0 140 51 32 82 290 16 1 2 888 .180 11 13 2 3 12Opponents……….. 5.51 3-20 24 24 2 1/0 0 215.2 254 154 132 103 232 49 10 19 998 .296 30 25 4 6 5
PB – Team (4), Budde 3, Myers 1, Opp (4). Pickoffs – Team (3), DiNardo 2, Switzer 1, Opp (5). SB/SBA – Budde (20-32), Myers (18-19), Prior (9-10), Brazelton (7-8), Gosling (7-8), Reyes (4-6), Karp (4-6), Carlson (3-6), Saarloos (2-4), Bengochea (2-2), DiNardo (0-2), Switzer (0-1), Shoppach (0-1), Sager (1-1), Rabelo (1-1), Parrott (0-1).
