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Joon Lee: Shohei Ohtani striking out Mike Trout 'almost single-handedly’ elevated World Baseball Classic

Summary by Awful Announcing
The World Baseball Classic has a moment that changed everything, and Joon Lee can tell you exactly when it happened. It was March 21, 2023, bottom of the ninth, Japan leading the United States 3-2 in the final, and Shohei Ohtani — who had spent the previous five innings pitching for his country, and was in the middle of rewriting what it meant to be a baseball player — walked back to the mound to close it out himself. The last batter he faced wa…
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Awful Announcing broke the news in on Friday, March 13, 2026.
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