![]() The group wasn’t all plain sailing for Mexico, however, with Colombia stunning them in their first game, and even lowly Great Britain holding them to a one-run differential. Mexico came through Pool C, the same pool as team USA, and managed to win that group on the back of a humiliating defeat that they posted on the Americans. In one of the tastiest matchups in the WBC, Japan and Mexico will clash with the winner going on to face the USA in the final tomorrow night. Welcome to the live commentary coverage of the Mexico vs Japan WBC semifinal game here with Diario AS USA. Defending champions USA are looking to join Japan as the only teams to have ever repeated as champions. Japan are the only country to have ever won the title twice and are looking to extend that to become the undisputed kings of world baseball. Japan will now face the USA in the 2023 WBC final game tomorrow at 7 p.m. "Us Mexicans are born wherever the hell we feel like it." In the words of the immortal Costa Rican-born Mexican singer Chavela Vargas, "Los mexicanos nacemos donde nos da la rechingada gana." The Cuban-born outfielder has seared his name into the hearts of all Mexicans and his defensive play in particular was perhaps some of the best play in the entire tournament. Mexico owe their appearance in the semi final, as well as their holding the lead as long as they did in this game, to Randy Arozarena. It was only a matter of time before his bat came to life and that moment was when it counted most.Ī massive double blasted off the left center wall allowed two runs to score to make it 6-5 for Samurai Japan and propel them into the final game against the USA tomorrow. He had gone 0 for 4 on the night, and 0 for 18 in the entire WBC competition. The NPB triple crown winner has been oddly silent in the tournament so far. Japan clawed one back but were in desperate straits.Īnd then, with all the chips down, in the bottom of the ninth Japan got two runners on base for Munetaka Murakami. In the seventh inning, Masataka Yoshida blasted a bomb off the right field foul pole to level the score, and once again Mexico hit right back, posting two of their own in the bottom half of the inning to retake the lead. But the lucky breaks all fell Mexico's way, and sometimes it is better to be lucky than to be good. On the Japanese side of the ball, there was solid play and lots of base runners in fact they stranded ten of them on the night. Great pitching, more than a pinch of luck, and of course Randy Arozarena kept Mexico in front for seven innings. Mexico got out to a three-run lead in the fourth with a towering shot from Luis Urías and held it. This was one of the best baseball games you could ever hope to see. This game was epic! It had everything that baseball promises: great pitching, contact hitting, small ball, big blasts, and a walk-off finish. Japan walk-off 6-5 win over Mexico books their spot in final
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