One game shy of the WBC final, Japan loses to U.S.

For six games, Samurai Japan came up with the big hit, made the important play. But in the crucial stanza of their seventh game at this World Baseball Classic, on a rainy Tuesday night in Southern California, the big play slipped out of their grasp. Brandon Crawford scored the tiebreaking run when Nobuhiro Matsuda couldn’t […]

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