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The U.S. baseball team won a 7-0 decision over the Netherlands today, with Stephen Strasburg throwing seven scoreless innings of one-hit ball, left fielder Matt LaPorta contributing a three-run homer and Washington Nationals prospect Shairon Martis taking the loss. That's the normal version.

The weird version ends with talk of a protest of a protest, and goes something like this: the game was halted for an hour and 45 minutes due to monsoon-like rain in in the top of the eighth. The announced attendance had been 996, a number that quickly plummeted to no more than 200. The first pitch after the delay was lined back at Dutch pitcher Dave Draijer, who left the game with an arm injury, leading to another delay.

By the top of bottom of the eighth, the rain had returned. By the top of the ninth, it was pouring. And with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, rain splashing everywhere and the Dutch down 7-0, the umpires pulled the players off the field, to loud boos, or as loud as a few dozen people could manage. Most of the remaining fans then left. Not counting Wukesong Baseball Field volunteers and national officials, there were perhaps 50 of us in the stands.

Anyone hear about this? Can you imagine having a game called on the account of rain in the ninth inning when you have bases loaded and no outs?

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