March 8, 1961
Dominican Republic Falters, USA Loses Again
You Can't Predict Baseball: The wonderful and magical thing about baseball is that anything can happen. And yesterday, anything happened. The Czech Republic upset the defending champions from the Dominican Republic, 6-5. It probably doesn't change their fortunes too much and the Dominicans remain one of the favorites, but anyone can lose on any given day.
USA Struggles Continue: The United States' disappointment has turned to outright terror as they lost their third consecutive game, this time to the German team that defeated them last year as well. It's looking very unlikely that they'll advance now, but perhaps they can at least regain some pride.
Venezuela Loses, Too: The other favorite in Pool B, Venezuela, isn't faring much better. They fell to 1-2 with a loss to Nicaragua who dominated in a 6-0 win.