US EditionOkamoto homers in Blue Jays 4-3 loss to Mets in pre-season play
Okamoto, signed for $60 million, hit a two-run homer in spring training as he prepares for the World Baseball Classic, despite Blue Jays' 4-3 loss to the Mets.
- In Dunedin, Florida, Kazuma Okamoto hit a home run that opened scoring in the Toronto Blue Jays' 4-3 loss to the New York Mets on Monday during Major League Baseball spring training.
- Okamoto, who joined Toronto in January on a four-year, $60 million deal after an 11-year Nippon Professional Baseball career, hit 30 or more home runs in six consecutive seasons.
- Okamoto finished the outing 1-for-2 with two RBIs; his spring-training hit was measured at 131 meters to dead center field, and he struck out in the fourth before leaving the game.
- The Mets tied the game in the third when Nick Morabito and MJ Melendez drove in runs, then took the lead on a throwing error scoring Jacob Reimer and a Cristian Pache homer.
- Both players are expected to play for Japan at the WBC in early March; Okamoto said `I was able to swing the bat well` and Murakami has not made a quote available.
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Baseball: WBC-bound slugger Okamoto blasts 1st homer in training match
New Toronto Blue Jays slugger Kazuma Okamoto, who is set to join Japan's national team at the upcoming World Baseball Classic, blasted his first home run for his team in a Major League Baseball spring training game on Monday.
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Okamoto homers in Blue Jays 4-3 loss to Mets in pre-season play
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