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Baseball: Yamamoto to Start Quarterfinal, Ohtani Eyes Next Miami Milestone
Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start for Japan in the WBC quarterfinal against Venezuela as they seek to defend their 2023 title, with Shohei Ohtani focusing on hitting milestones.
- Japan skipper Hirokazu Ibata named Yoshinobu Yamamoto as the starting pitcher for Saturday's World Baseball Classic quarterfinal against Venezuela, with no pitch limit on the right-hander.
- Defending champion Japan enters the last-eight clash as the unbeaten Pool C winner, seeking its second consecutive title against Venezuela, which qualified as Pool D's runner-up.
- At the South Florida ballpark, superstar Shohei Ohtani returns to where he lifted the 2023 WBC championship trophy, calling the stadium a place of "fond memories."
- Boston Red Sox left-hander Ranger Suarez will start for Venezuela, manager Omar Lopez announced; Suarez previously pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies against Ohtani's Dodgers in last year's National League Division Series.
- Ohtani emphasized that Japan must quickly adjust to unfamiliar pitchers to secure victory, confirming there are no plans for him to pitch and focusing instead on offensive contributions.
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Japan and Venezuela will close the quarter phase on Saturday at LoanDepot Park, home of the Miami Marlins.
Japan surpasses its rivals in batting and pitching, a mixture of talent and method that usually flourishes in direct elimination games, but baseball does not always respond to mathematics, and Venezuela clings to that unpredictable crack where the gestations are born.
Baseball: Yamamoto to start quarterfinal, Ohtani eyes next Miami milestone
Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start for Japan in Saturday's World Baseball Classic quarterfinal against Venezuela at Miami's loanDepot park, a place of "fond memories" for the defending champion and especially superstar Shohei Ohtani.
I hope he goes as far as he can, but Japan, which met the powerful Venezuela, confirmed Yamamoto as the starting pitcher OSEN = Reporter Hong Ji-soo Japan's starting pitcher for the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Baseball Classic WBC is Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the LA Dodgers. Japanese media outlet 'Sunkei Sports' reported on the 13th.
The national team of Venezuela challenges Japan, the current monarch of the tournament, in a decisive quarter-final duel of the 2026 World Baseball Classic. The match is scheduled for this Saturday, March 14th, at the LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, where one of the semifinalists of the top international baseball round will be defined. The road to the quarter-finals Venezuela secured its classification after a solid phase of groups in Group D,…
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