Japan beat Korea in a classic game last night, one that is worthy of all of the praise it is getting. If you missed last nights game, it focused on fundamentals, it focused on slugging when needed and bunting when needed and it focused on Baseball. Going into this game, since 2000, in international play, Korea had a one game advantage over Japan. In the classic, Japan one the first meeting of these two teams, Korea then took the next two and Japan took the forth. so the stage was set to finsiht this as a best of five for the trophy and all of the bragging rights.
Every Korea would creep back up, Japan would creep farther ahead and then it hit a crucial moment in the ninth inning. One of the best pitchers for Japan, Yu Darvish was on on the mound and he had to get the save. He allowed two walks and then struck two out. Korea then got a hit and tied the game against one of the best pitchers in the world. In the top of the ninth, Ichiro, the most notable player on team Japan if you are American, came through big time as he got a crucial tenth inning hit that bruoght across two runners and put Japan ahead and they would never look back.
That ends the WBC in a classic game which was preceded by many great games, over the next day or so, I am going to put together a top ten WBC moments as a nice wrap up for this great tournament.
