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Baseball Canada’s national junior team narrowly missed out on an opportunity to drop the United States to 0-3 at the World Junior Championships yesterday after an unearned run lifted the Americans to a 2-1 win.

The winning run was the second of a two-run fifth inning for the U.S. after Canada had taken an early 1-0 lead when a sacrifice fly from David Narodowski (Vancouver, B.C.) score Mark Ellis (Maple Ridge, B.C.) in the second inning.

Despite throwing well, Canadian starter James Paxton (Delta, B.C.) found himself on the wrong end of a tight pitchers duel, being tagged with the loss after giving up only one earned run behind three hits, two walks and three strikeouts over the first 4.1 innings.

American starter Neil Ramirez earned the win for the Americans, striking out seven Canadians and allowing only two hits and the lone Canadian run before being replace with one out in the sixth inning.

Canadian Drew Parker was solid in relief, blanking the Americans over the final 4.2 innings, but Canada’s bats were held silent after scoring over 22 runs in their first two games of the tournament.

Ellis, Jordan Wideman (Mississauga, Ont.), Kyle Gilligan (Toronto, Ont.) and Brett Lawrie (Langley, B.C.) were all 1-for-3 while Chase Larsson was 1-for-5 to collect Canada’s hits.

Canada’s (2-1) next match-up comes against undefeated Chinese Taipei (3-0) this afternoon at 2 p.m.  EST.

Box Score: In the sidebar on the left, click on "Resultados de Los Juegos" then click on Game #17.
B = At Bats; C = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Homeruns; CI = RBI; 0 = Outs; A = Assists; E = Errors

Standings: In the sidebar on the left, click on "Posiciones B."
JJ = Games Played; JG = Wins; JP = Losses; AVE = Winning percentage; DIF = Games Back; VS = Visiting Team; HC = Home Team