US beats Japan 8-4, wins baseball bronze (AP)

Courtesy Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Sat, 08/23/2008 - 00:45

The U.S. baseball team had to settle for bronze, certainly not the medal color the Americans had planned to bring home.

Taylor Teagarden hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the fifth and Jason Donald followed with a two-run homer off the left-field foul pole, lifting the United States to an 8-4 victory over Japan on Saturday.

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