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Japan received the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday evening, downing Team USA 3-2 within the championship sport at loanDepot Park in Miami.
The sport led to dramatic style with Japan’s Shohei Ohtani putting out his MLB teammate Mike Trout with a full-count slider to seal Japan’s third title.
Japan received in 2006 by defeating Cuba within the closing and in 2009 when it edged out South Korea. It went by means of the 2023 event undefeated.
Team USA’s Trea Turner hit a solo house run off Shota Imanaga to open the scoring with one out within the high of the second. But within the backside half of the inning, Munetaka Murakami, a two-time MVP in Japan, led off with a house run off Team USA starter Merrill Kelly to tie the rating at 1-1.
Kelly did not make it out of the second with Japan loading the bases with one out on singles by Kazuma Okamoto and Sosuke Genda and a stroll by No. 9 batter Yuhei Nakamura. Pitcher Aaron Loup got here in for Team USA and gave up an RBI floor out to Lars Nootbaar earlier than getting Kensuke Kondoh to fly out to heart to finish the inning with Japan forward 2-1.
Japan made it 3-1 with a leadoff house run by Okamoto within the backside of the fourth.
In the eighth inning, with Yu Darvish in to pitch for Japan, Kyle Schwarber homered on the 10th pitch of his at-bat to attract Team USA inside one at 3-2.
The subsequent model of the World Baseball Classic shall be held in 2026 at a website to be decided.