Today (9th), our national baseball team will play its first World Baseball Classic match against Australia. And tomorrow is the Korea-Japan game.
Japan, with superstars like Ohtani at the forefront, is evaluated as the strongest force ever, and reporter Bae Jeong-hoon pointed out what our team’s winning strategy is.
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The Japanese national team, which is aiming for its third WBC championship following 2006 and 2009, is more colorful than ever.
Otani, who rewrote baseball history with the world’s best pitching skills, Darvish with 95 wins in the major leagues who are likely to be selected for the Korea-Japan match, and Morning Star Sasaki with a fastball of 165 km/h are lined up.
Japanese fans’ interest and expectations are also at an all-time high.
Tens of thousands of fans flocked to watch the training, and in the cities where the evaluation matches were held, long lines lined up from dawn to buy national team-related products. 바카라사이트
[Otani/WBC Japan National Team: It’s my first time participating in the WBC, so I’m nervous, but I always think I want to play like that.]
However, Korean baseball has always shown its potential against Japan, which was evaluated as a top power.
The two teams faced off evenly with 9 wins and 10 losses in a head-to-head match with the best members.
Our team’s greatest strength ahead of the WBC Korea-Japan match in 14 years is the best defense ever.
Big League Keystone duo Kim Ha-seong and Edmon, as well as reserve big leaguer Lee Jung-hoo, who will be the starting center fielder, have enough skills to face Japan on both offense and defense.
If left-handed pitchers such as Kim Gwang-hyeon, Yang Hyeon-jong, and Koo Chang-mo well block the Japanese lineup, which is dominated by left-handed giants such as Ohtani and Murakami, the protagonist of last year’s 56 homers, we can create a memorable match for a long time in this Korea-Japan match.
In the midst of this, Ohtani will be in charge of the starting pitcher against China today, so he will only hit as a hitter against Japan and Korea.