Israel eliminated Mexico in the baseball knockout stage competition at the Tokyo 2020 as their first victory. Danny Valencia propelled his side with a loud three-run homer to turn out a six-run dominant at the Yokohama Baseball stadium. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s so much about beating Mexico,\u201d said Nick Rickles after the 12-5 victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a lot to just raise awareness for baseball in Israel. For me, I was last taking at the moment and seeing after the game the amount of love that we received from people back in Israel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Israel will be back in action on Tuesday against the winner of Monday\u2019s future between South Korea and the Dominican Republic with both at 1-1 and have the possibility to progress to the next round where they will have a clash against either the United States or the hosting country Japan on Wednesday. The winners will then advance to the gold medal fixture.<\/p>\n
Israel succeeded its group at the 2017 World Baseball Classic and beat Cuba in the second round followed by their victory in a two-continent Olympic qualifying competition where they defeated the Netherlands for one of the six Olympics berths. It failed its opening fixture against South Korea to 6-5 in 10 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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