![]() ![]() ![]() Toshiya Ishii, a 29-year-old fan, broke down crying at the victory. “But I was very moved by the fact that they showed us a dramatic game on that stage in the United States.” “I was OK with either losing or winning,” said Hiroya Kuroda, a 44-year-old in a crowd of about 400 watching the game in a studio at Tokyo Tower. Japan joined the Dominican Republic in 2013 as the only unbeaten champions of baseball’s premier national team tournament. Its won three of the five WBC titles, dating to the first event in 2006. Japan is unlikely in the short-term to win soccer’s World Cup, but its baseball is world class. It also gave a boost in Japan to baseball, which has been challenged by soccer as the country’s favorite sport. The victory and the focus on Ohtani for the past two weeks provided a distraction from economic malaise, missile threats from North Korea, and China’s rise across Asia and its implications for Japan. 1,” the headline read in Japanese, with commuters at Shibuya station pushing and shoving to grab the collector’s item. APĪn employee distributes extra editions of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reporting on Japan’s victory at the final of the World Baseball Classic on Wednesday in Tokyo. The country’s top circulating newspaper Yomiuri rolled out a special Wednesday afternoon edition for commuters, usually reserved for serious matters of state, late-breaking election news, or as it was last year - the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Shohei Ohtani striking out Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout on a pitch away to end the game was replayed repeatedly between player interviews, beer-sprayed clubhouse interludes, and the traditional “doage” - team members tossing the winning manager and players into the air. This was must see viewing - over and over and over. TOKYO (AP) - Japanese television stuck to its live coverage from Miami for almost two hours after Japan defeated the United States 3-2 to win the World Baseball Classic. People celebrate Japan’s victory against United States as they watch on a live stream of a World Baseball Classic final being played at loanDepot Park in Miami, during a public viewing event on Wednesday in Tokyo. ![]()
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