By Rob Forsaith.Mon Oct 3 2011.Aust baseballers upbeat despite 14-0 loss. Cuba, who finished second at the previous World Cup in 2009, made light work of the inexperienced Australian line-up in Chitre, Panama on Sunday (Monday AEDT). The powerhouse Cubans totalled 14 runs from 16 hits in the game, which was halted after the seventh innings.Manager Jon Deeble is adamant Australia can rebound from a terrible start to their 2011 baseball World Cup campaign - a 14-0 loss to Cuba cut short by the mercy rule.">By Rob Forsaith.Mon Oct 3 2011.Aust baseballers upbeat despite 14-0 loss. Cuba, who finished second at the previous World Cup in 2009, made light work of the inexperienced Australian line-up in Chitre, Panama on Sunday (Monday AEDT). The powerhouse Cubans totalled 14 runs from 16 hits in the game, which was halted after the seventh innings.Manager Jon Deeble is adamant Australia can rebound from a terrible start to their 2011 baseball World Cup campaign - a 14-0 loss to Cuba cut short by the mercy rule.">

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  • 10 / 04 / 2011

By Rob Forsaith.Mon Oct 3 2011.Aust baseballers upbeat despite 14-0 loss. Cuba, who finished second at the previous World Cup in 2009, made light work of the inexperienced Australian line-up in Chitre, Panama on Sunday (Monday AEDT).

The powerhouse Cubans totalled 14 runs from 16 hits in the game, which was halted after the seventh innings.Manager Jon Deeble is adamant Australia can rebound from a terrible start to their 2011 baseball World Cup campaign - a 14-0 loss to Cuba cut short by the mercy rule.

Cuba, who finished second at the previous World Cup in 2009, made light work of the inexperienced Australian line-up in Chitre, Panama on Sunday (Monday AEDT).

The powerhouse Cubans totalled 14 runs from 16 hits in the game, which was halted after the seventh innings.

Australia managed only three hits against Cuba starter Freddy Asiel Alvarez.

However Deeble, who managed Australia in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, wasn't overly concerned.

"That's the best team we're going to play this round, so we will come back tomorrow and have a win on Italy and be right back on track," Deeble said.

"I thought offensively we grinded out some at bats, and I thought defensively we did well.

"We've got a lot of young guys, it's going to take a bit to get things going."

The one-sided result was a far cry from the 2004 Olympic gold medal match between the two nations, which Australia lost 6-2.

The mercy rule isn't used in many professional leagues, but in most international baseball fixtures games are called off when one team is ahead by 10 runs once at least seven completed innings are played by the trailing team.

Cuba crashed six runs in the fourth dig, belted two more in the fifth, and four more in the seventh inning.

Australia have a chance for redemption when they clash with Italy in Santiago on Monday (5am AEST on Tuesday).

Chris Oxspring, a veteran of the 2004 Olympics, will be the starting pitcher for Australia against Italy.

Source: http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8354835

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