Team USA blew it. The World Baseball Classic didn’t

Source: New York Post

It was always going to be difficult for the World Baseball Classic final to top the cinema from 2023, when it all came down to Mike Trout, one of the best American baseball players, at the plate and his then-Angels teammate Shohei Ohtani, the greatest baseball player in the world, on the mound for Japan. The six-pitch battle. The final swinging strike that secured Japan’s 3-2 victory and prompted the celebration.