Winning the WBC match against China is not a cold game…’Mercy Rule’

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• on Mar 14, 2023

After the Korean national team won the last match against China in the WBC Group B, 22-2 in the 5th inning, all domestic articles reported that it was a cold game victory. If a WBC official in the U.S. calls a cold game victory, they will tilt their heads. In the WBC rules, it was specified as the ‘mercy rule’. Cold game is Japanese English. Mercy means benevolent.

A ‘cold game’ in the US means that the referee ends the game for some reason. weather. A called game is called by the umpire when conditions such as field conditions, sunset, forfeiture of game, or curfew occur.

It is explained in the End of Game of Baseball Rule 7. Suspended, like sunset, which is often seen in Korea, is also called a cold game. When a game is temporarily or ended by a referee, it is called a called game. Therefore, it is completely different from the cold game that the domestic media is talking about.

The WBC Mercy Rule automatically ends the game if the gap widens by more than 15 points by the fifth inning and by more than 10 points by the seventh inning. The Korean national team almost lost to Japan due to the Mercy rule. With a score of 13-4, he narrowly avoided the Mercy Rule. He returned home with a Mercy Rule victory to relieve China’s elimination in the first round.

‘Double-elimination’

In the 2009 WBC tournament, this method was introduced, and Korea and Japan played as many as five matches, including the final. A knockdown in a tournament is called a single-elimination. It is a way to lose once you stick together. In double-elimination, if you win twice, you go up, and if you lose twice, you are eliminated.

For the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, double-elimination combined with group stage was used. The matchup between the eight teams advancing to the College World Series in the United States is a double elimination system, and the final is a best-of-three match.

Double-elimination has its pros and cons. Prevent the championship candidates from being eliminated in the group stage with a single loss. It is similar to the point of giving a seed to a candidate for the championship in tennis so that they can face each other in the final.

It is also a success at the box office. It is supposed to face a strong team twice. However, it has the downside that some teams often play against the same team and never face each other in the group stage.

That was the case in WBC 2009. In the Group A qualifiers, Korea and Japan faced each other twice. However, Taiwan was defeated by Korea and China one after another and was unable to play the group stage against Japan.

After the 2009 tournament, criticism of the double-elimination method in Korea modified the caster tournament method and applied it only to the second round in 2013. From 2017, it was changed to group stage.

Unfortunately,메이저사이트 after the group stage in the first round of 2013, the Korean national team lost to the Netherlands in the first round of Group B, and three teams, including Taiwan, tied with 2 wins and 1 loss, but were eliminated due to a goal difference. In baseball, it is meaningless to determine whether a player advances to the next level by the goal difference.

But I couldn’t help it. It was the 2013 tournament that he could have avoided being eliminated in the first round if he had stuck to the previous double-elimination method.