Japan wins 2009 WBC in 10 innings, 5-3

In a victory sure to irritate lots of people all over the world, Japan beat Korea 5-3 in ten innings to defend their World Baseball Classic crown.

Ichiro basically erased his bad hitting prior to today's final by going 4-6 and driving in the winning runs with two outs in the top of the 10th inning.

Japan hammered out 15 hits to Korea's 5 and left the bases loaded several times, stranding 6 runners in scoring position.

Yuu Darvish got the win while Chang Yong Lim got the loss, making him the goat for Korea (I was only following the gamecast on ESPN but it sure looked like he lost either control or composure in the 10th) but ironically making him a friend to all his teammates on the Yakult Swallows.




For the record, this means that Japan won their overall series 3497 - 3496

Korea and Japan to meet for the 6,993rd time in 2009 WBC

Japan beats the USA 9-4 to finalize the match-up that everyone around the world has already seen 6992 times already in the month of March.

Japan and Korea are currently tied at 3496 - 3496 in the 2009 tournament.







By the way, for those watching in Japan, have they been using Separate Ways as the highlight song all the time? Because they did today and that's just awesome.