Japan blows out Italy to advance to World Baseball Classic semifinals

It’s not every day someone manages to steal the spotlight from Shohei Ohtani.

Kazuma Okamoto might have pulled it off, however, while also putting Japan one step closer to winning the World Baseball Classic.

Okamoto homered and drove in five runs to help back up Ohtani as Japan advanced to the WBC semifinals for the fifth straight time with a 9-3 win over Italy in front of a crowd of 41,723 at Tokyo Dome on Thursday.

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Source : Baseball – The Japan Times

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