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Australia Opens World Baseball Classic With 3-0 Victory Over Chinese Taipei

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Australia opened the World Baseball Classic on Thursday by beating Chinese Taipei 3-0 on Robbie Perkins' two-run homer in the fifth inning and Travis Bazzana's homer in the seventh at the Tokyo Dome. The two big swings were enough in a tight game dominated by pitching on both sides. Chinese Taipei managed only three hits, and Australia had seven. It was a critical victory for Australia, which also won its first game in 2023, defeating South Korea enroute to reaching the quarterfinals and a narrow 4-3 loss to Cuba. Australian starter Alex Wells pitched three no-hit innings with Jack O'Loughlin...