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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (278766)	3/6/2006 8:10:36 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572266

re: For a moment there, I thought you were talking about the semiconductor industry. Not much difference.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (278766)	3/6/2006 9:47:35 PM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1572266

My goodness, so did I.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (278766)	3/6/2006 9:56:55 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572266

South Korea 3, Japan 2 By JIM ARMSTRONG, AP Sports Writer March 5, 2006 TOKYO (AP) -- Ichiro Suzuki never expected to lose to South Korea. "I feel ashamed of this defeat," the Seattle Mariners star said Sunday after the South Koreans upset Japan 3-2 to win Group A in the first round of the inaugural World Baseball Classic, Lee Seung-yeop hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning of a game that mattered little because both nations were assured of advancement. Suzuki's game-ending flyout left him 1-for-3 Sunday and 3-for-11 (.273) in the three Group A games. "If I was satisfied with my performance, I should quit baseball," Suzuki said. Dae-Sung Koo, whose contract was sold last week by New York Mets to a South Korean club, pitched two scoreless innings of relief to get the victory as the South Koreans overcame a two-run deficit. Chan Ho Park of the San Diego Padres pitched the ninth for the save. After he retired Suzuki for the final out, South Korean players ran on to the field and mobbed the pitcher. South Korea (3-0) and Japan (2-1) will travel to Arizona for exhibition games against major league teams, then go to Anaheim, Calif., for the second round, to be played from March 12-16. Their second-round opponents will include the top two teams from Group B, which has the United States, Canada, Mexico and South Africa. Lee, who holds the Asian record of 56 homers in a season, signed with the Yomiuri Giants in the offseason after spending the last two seasons with the Pacific League's Chiba Lotte Marines. The game was played before a crowd of 40,353 in the Tokyo Dome, his new home ballpark. "I was just trying to stay focused," Lee said. "Japan is a very strong team and, hopefully, we'll be able beat them again in the United States." Lee, who led the Marines with 30 homers last season, hit a pair of homers in South Korea's 10-1 win over China on Saturday. Japan went ahead in the first when Tsuyoshi Nishioka scored from third on an infield grounder by Nobuhiko Matsunaka, and Munenori Kawasaki's second-inning homer made it 2-0. Lee Byung-kyu hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth. With the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth, South Korean right fielder Lee Jin-young made a fully extended diving catch to grab Nishioka's sinking liner. South Korean fans in left field gave him a standing ovation, and Japanese fans gave him polite applause. There were boos in the bottom of the seventh when South Korea's Bae Young-soo drilled Suzuki in the back. Suzuki was 1-for-3 Sunday and had only three hits in the three games. In Sunday's first game, Chen Yung-Chi's fourth-inning grand slam helped Taiwan beat China 12-3. Chen, a minor league prospect for the Seattle Mariners, was 4-for-6 with four runs scored, three doubles and five RBIs.