Tag: Team Israel
Israel handed second straight mercy-rule loss at World Baseball Classic
It’s a good thing Team Israel manager Ian Kinsler has a sense of humor. Even after a nearly identical loss to Puerto Rico on Monday, Kinsler could still manage a chuckle after being beaten by the...
Israel comes from behind to win 3-1 in World Baseball Classic
Team Israel’s first game of the 2023 World Baseball Classic against Nicaragua on Sunday was supposed to be its easy game before playing powerhouse teams Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. But it took a come-from-behind...
‘Team Israel will surprise a lot of people,’ predicts Israel National Baseball Team general...
Team Israel is currently battling it out in the World Baseball Classic in Miami, where it’s part of a grouping with powerhouses the Dominican Republic, which many are picking to win; Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Nicaragua...
Team Israel’s Olympic baseball hopes end after loss to Dominican Republic
Team Israel baseball’s hopes of an Olympic medal ended on Tuesday after it lost a game in dramatic fashion to the Dominican Republic.
It lost 7-6 to the Dominicans after former MLB All-Star José Bautista drove in a walk-off, RBI...
‘Follow Team Israel’: Headed for Tokyo, hoping for glory
Nearly 10 years ago, just before the 2012 London Olympics, new immigrants to Israel David Wiseman and Shari Wright-Pilo noticed a lack of what they considered to be much-needed English-language news and content about...
Back to baseball in Brooklyn and on to Tokyo for Team Israel
For Team Israel and members of the media who spent three tense, very exciting nights at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, N.Y., back in September 2016, July 11 was a true homecoming.
Team Israel played...
Israeli teen acrobatic gymnastics team takes home world gold
A team of young Israeli acrobatic gymnasts took first place in an international contest last week, after having performed a minutes-long routine that included flips, human pyramids and mid-air splits.
The team, comprised of four...
‘Miracle Team Israel:’ On the road to competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
When the Miracle Mets won the World Series in 1969, baseball was virtually unknown in Israel. Israel had come out victorious in the Six-Day War only two years earlier, the first field was built...