Daily News | Japan beats USA, 3-2, to win third World Baseball Classic
MIAMI — After five innings Tuesday night, with Japan clutching a two-run lead for all the World Baseball Classic marbles, Shohei Ohtani walked to the bullpen. As Japan loaded the bases in the sixth, Ohtani jogged to the dugout for a possible at-bat. When the rally fizzled, he returned to the bullpen and got loose, then came to the plate in the seventh inning and beat out an infield single before going back to warm up.
One night after putting Japan in the championship game against the United States with a leadoff double to key a ninth-inning rally, Ohtani recorded the last three outs — including a game-ending strikeout of Angels teammate Mike Trout — to clinch the title. The Japanese outlasted the Americans, 3-2, in a thrill-a-minute finale to capture their third WBC crown in the fifth installment of the tournament.
But there’s nobody quite like Ohtani, whose laps between the dugout and bullpen ended with him coming on to pitch the ninth inning. He issued a leadoff walk to Jeff McNeil, but got Mookie Betts to ground into a double play before throwing a sweeping slider past Trout. Japan went ahead 3-1 in the fourth inning on a solo homer by Kazuma Okamoto. By the sixth, all the intrigue surrounded how Kuriyama would deploy Darvish and Ohtani in the late innings.
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