Published by Sports Illustrated By Tom Verducci During an electric WBC matchup, Ohtani struck out Angels teammate Mike Trout with the best sweeper of his career. An epic showdown with Mike Trout broug […]
Published by Kyodo News Samurai Japan received a rapturous welcome home from around 1,200 fans at Narita airport near Tokyo on Thursday after capturing the country’s third World Baseball Classic […]
Published by Kyodo News Japan’s World Baseball Classic MVP Shohei Ohtani is on course to be the Los Angeles Angels’ Opening Day starter for the second straight year and is set to pitch in […]
Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer MIAMI — Here’s the thing about playing in the World Baseball Classic: There isn’t much time to reflect on it. One day, you’re hitting a home run against Japan in […]
Published by Kyodo News At his March 2019 retirement press conference, Ichiro Suzuki was blunt about his expectations for Shohei Ohtani, saying, “He has to become the world’s No. 1 basebal […]
Published by Sports Illustrated By Kyle Wood After the madness that ensued last weekend, there’s thankfully been a few days to recover. But as the saying goes: We sleep in May. Four more men’s NCAA to […]
Published by Sports Illustrated By Dan Gartland His game-ending strikeout was more impressive than was immediately evident. Tuesday’s World Baseball Classic championship game ended just the way every […]
Published by Sports Illustrated By Dan Gartland That lived up to the hype. Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. Do we really have to go back to spring training games after that? In today’s SI:AM: 🇯🇵 The WB […]
Published by Sports Illustrated By Andy Nesbitt This was ELECTRIC. The World Baseball Classic came down to a perfect ending that not even writers in Hollywood could have come up with – the great […]
Published by Sports Illustrated By Stephanie Apstein “Superman.” “A unicorn.” There were many ways to describe Ohtani’s performance in the WBC final, but we will leave it to Mike Trout: “He’s the best […]
