U.S. NATIONAL TEAM FINAL NOTES FOR SUMMER OF 2007 contact: Niall Adler | c: (714) 331-6412 | [email protected] | www.usabaseball.com A LOOK AT THE SUMMER USA BASEBALL SCHEDULE (25-12) Battered and bruised near the end, Team USA (25-12) finished off a 37-game, 57- June 19 vs. Oil Can Boyd All-Stars day summer in third place at the World Port Tournament. They also received a sil- *Pittsfield, MA (Wahconah Park) W 9-1 June 20 @ North Adams Steeplecats ver medal at the Pan American Games. Both time they were defeated by Cuba, North Adams, MA (Joe Wolfe) W 9-1 who took home top honors at both tournaments. The Americans traveled through June 21 @ Keene Swamp Bats 16 cities, three continents (in a span of two weeks), and played 10 countries, from Keene, NH (Alumni Field) W 5-0 the mountains of Siberia in Russia to the rain forests of Brazil. The team met for June 22 @ Vermont Mountaineers Montpelier, VT (MRF) W 5-0 the first time on June 19 and without trials, played that night and finished up a six- June 23 @ Torrington Twisters day New England swing at 5-1. They went on to play 10-straight days starting on- Torrington, CT (Fuessenich Park) L 3-4 June 29 against Chinese Taipei and Japan. They took four of five from Taipei, and June 24 @ Newport Gulls Newport, RI (Cardines Field) W 5-4 lost 3-2 to Japan, for the first time on American soil in the annual collegiate series. Two of those losses were by a single run. They went on to the Pan Am Games in June 29 Chinese Taipei Brazil, fighting through weather delays and poor field conditions which saw the Burlington, NC (Athletic Park) W 7-0 games delayed three times for the Americans, going a perfect 4-0 before losing to June 30 Chinese Taipei Burlington, NC (Athletic Park) W 6-4 the Cubans 3-1. It was then back to the States, up the American Southeast, play- July 1 Chinese Taipei ing 48 hours later and four games (with three wins) over China, losing a fifth game Cary, NC (Training Complex) W 13-2 after four innings due to rain, before having to play more four games in three days July 2 Chinese Taipei Cary, NC (Training Complex) L 2-3 against the Netherlands and Russia. The Americans went 6-2 over that stretch. July 3 Chinese Taipei The team finished off the summer with eight games in 10 days in Rotterdam, going Kannapolis, NC (Fieldcrest Cannon) W 5-1 4-2 before consecutive losses to first place Cuba and second place Taipei. 36th USA vs. Japan Collegiate Championship Series July 4 Japan Durham, NC (DBAP) W 7-2 BATTERED BUT NOT OUT AT THE END July 5 Japan Kannapolis, NC (Fieldcrest) L 2-3 The Americans fought through injuries at the end.Two starters were injured-- July 6 Japan Durham, NC (DBAP) L 1-2 Logan Forsythe (foot) out for the last half of the World Port Tourney, and 3B Pedro July 7 Japan Durham, NC (DBAP) L 2-5 July 8 Japan Durham, NC (DBAP) W 7-3 Alvarez (arm) limited to DH duties, while threestarting pitchers (Jacob Thompson, Lance Lynn, Brian Matusz) had to be replaced due to over use, but no injury, prior 2007 Pan American Games (Silver Medal) to the start of the tournament. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Cidade do Rock Sport Complex) July 15 Dominican Republic W 5-1 July 16 Nicaragua W 8-4 FINAL TEAM LEADERS FOR THE SUMMER July 18 Brazil W 7-5 Hitting--Average (Alvarez-.315), Home Runs (Alvarez/Kieschnick-7), RBIs (Al- July 18 Semifinals-Mexico W 2-1 varez-30), Runs (Danks-37) Hits (Alvarez-40), Walks (Danks-25), Doubles July 20 Finals-Cuba (Silver Medal) L 1-3 (Smoak-10), Triples (Danks-2), Multi-Hit Games (Alvarez-12); Pitching---Wins July 22 China Mobile, AL (Hank Aaron) W 10-0 (7) (Minor-5-2), ERA-Reliever (Hunter-0.66), Saves (Satterwhite-4), ERA-Starter July 24 China Mobile, AL (Hank Aaron) W 4-1 (Ross-0.82), Strikeouts (Ross-39), Appearances (Hunter-14) July 25 China Birmingham, AL (Hoover Metro) L 1-2 July 26 China Rome, GA (State Mutual) W 16-0 (7) July 27 China Ft. Mill, SC (Knights Stadium) RAIN STREAKS July 28 The Netherlands Durham, NC (DBAP) W 14-0 Danny Espinosa (Long Beach State) ended the summer on an eight-game hit July 29 The NetherlandsCary, NC (Complex) W 2-1 streak, while Jordan Danks (Texas) ended it on a seven-game streak... Brett July 29 The Netherlands Durham, NC (DBAP) L 3-9 July 30 Russia Cary, NC ( Complex) W 6-0 Hunter (Pepperdine) did not allow a run from June 23 until the final day, August 11. 2007 World Port Tournament (Third Place) Rotterdam, Netherlands (Neptunus Stadium) AWARDS/LEADERS FOR THE SUMMER (The Netherlands, Cuba, CTBA, Japan, USA) Aug 2 vs. Japan W 1-0 Pedro Alvarez (Vanderbilt) was named the American MVP for the Japan-USA se- Aug. 3 Off Day ries in early July and was named All-World Port Tournament to close out the sum- Aug 4 vs. The Netherlands W 11-0 mer. Alvarez led the Pan American Games in RBIs (7). Alvarez finished second at Aug 5 vs. Chinese Taipei L 5-10 Aug 6 vs. Cuba L 2-8 the World Port in homers (3) and in RBIs (7)... Jordan Danks (Texas) was named Aug 7 vs. Japan W 10-0 the Rookie of the World Port Tournament after batting .419 in Rotterdam. That av- Aug. 8 Off Day erage was fourth-best while his on-base percentage was tops (.500) amongst the Aug 9 vs. The Netherlands W 10-2 five teams. Danks also led the Pan American Games in runs scored (7)... Logan Aug 10 vs. Chinese Taipei L 0-1 Aug 11 vs. Cuba L 1-5 Forsythe (Arkansas) led the Pan American Games in hitting (.625)... Roger Ki- eschnick (Texas Tech) was fourth at the Pan Am Games in batting (.425). ... Jordy Mercer (Oklahoma State) had the 10th-best average at the World Port Tournament at .333... Tyson Ross (California) was second at the Pan Am Games in strikeouts (10) and had the fourth lowest ERA amongst starters at the World Port Tourney (0.64)... Ryan Berry (Rice) had the third lowest ERA amongst pitch- ers in Rotterdam with an 0.61 ERA... Brett Hunter (Pepperdine) had the third lowest batting average against amongst the five teams at the World Port (.130) and the best strikeout to innings ratio (16.20). Hunter’s 12 strikeouts were fourth U.S. SUMMER TOUR | PAGE 2 at the tournament... Team USA won a silver medal at the Pan American Games ABOUT THE COACHING STAFF in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and finished third at the World Port Tournament in Rot- MIKE WEATHERS terdam. HEAD COACH | LONG BEACH STATE Record: 504-411-2 (17 years) BIG TIME HITS FOR THE SUMMER at LBSU 225-131 (6 years) Logan Forsythe (Arkansas) had the only hit, the game-winner with two outs in the This will be Weathers’ third tour with USA Baseball, as ninth, to beat Japan 1-0 to start the World Port Tournament... Pedro Alvarez (Van- Weathers was an assistant for Team USA in 2003 when derbilt) had the game-tying double in the ninth to win the rubber game of a three- the U.S. won a silver medal at the Pan American Games behind future Golden Spikes Award winner, and game series with the Netherlands at the end of July... Tommy Medica (Santa former LBSU pitcher, Jered Weaver. Weathers was cho- Clara) hit his first home run of the summer July 8, over the Durham Bull, against sen to represent the U.S. at the World Games in South Japan... Roger Kieschnick (Texas Tech) hit an RBI single in the eighth and the America in 1970. Weathers has coached the Dirtbags to game-winning two-run home run in the ninth against Taipei on June 30... on July fIve NCAA Regionals and two Super Regionals, produc- 29, he hit the game-winning single in the ninth to beat the Netherlands... Logan ing 39 professional players and eight first or second Forsythe (Arkansas) had the game-winning two-run single in the fifth of a 2-1 win round selections. Has over 500 wins to his credit, he over Mexico, after getting two hits in the first game of the doubleheader that day, has been a head coach at Utah and Chapman College sending the Americans into the Gold Medal game the next day... Scott Gorgen in Orange County and was an assistant for LBSU from 1993 to 2001. During his tenure as a head coach at (UC Irvine), a late edition to the team, after striking out eight Russians in his first LBSU, the Dirtbags have had six national team players, start, struck out 10 in a World Port loss to the Cubans, giving up three runs (one six conference players of the year and coached 12 All- earned) on six hits over six innings... Cody Satterwhite (Ole Miss) saved both ends Americans. Along with Weaver, first round pick Evan of the doubleheader at the Pan Am Games, sending Team USA into the Finals... Longoria was a Golden Spikes Award Finalist in 2006. Mike Minor (Vanderbilt) struck out twelve over six shutout innings over China, al- Weathers is the second LBSU coach to have a tenure lowing just four hits..