Japan Manager Kideki Kuriyama still gets a special tingle watching Shohei Ohtani. It s been that way since Kuriyama managed the two-way star with the Hokkaido Ham-Fighters.
Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama still gets a special tingle watching Shohei Ohtani. It’s been that way since Kuriyama managed the two-way star with the Hokkaido Ham-Fighters. “When we see Shohei playing, not only the players but also the Japanese baseball fans, all the nation is feeling something extra,” Kuriyama said through a translator after Ohtani…
Kazuma Okamoto homered and drove in five runs to power Japan into the World Baseball Classic semifinals with a 9-3 victory against Italy on Thursday in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani strikes out five in his second WBC start, and also goes 1 for 4 with two runs scored in a 9-3 win to help Japan reach the WBC semifinals.
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