Samurai Japan (侍ジャパン), the selected Japanese baseball team, won its second consecutive World Baseball Classic (WBC) title with a 5-3 win over South Korea in front of a tournament-record crowd of 54,846 in Los Angles today.
There are 16 teams attending this WBC tournament, and this was the fifth game for Japan to play against South Korea. At the first round Japan won by the called game of 14-2. Next time they lost by 0-1, the third time they lost again by 1-4, and the fouth time they won by 6-2. Therefore Japan and South Korea were even of 2-2, and this game was the final match.
At the 9th inning they became the tie of 3-3, and at the 10th inning our hope, Ichiro (イチロー) hit the ball into center and they could score two runs, which brought Japan to the victory.
The pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka(松坂大輔) was named the tournament's MVP again.
Next WBC will be held in 2013.
Japanese people were so excited today. Thank you very much and congratulations!!
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