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In addition to Latin America, The tournament is considered a major sporting event in East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In Japan, nearly 100 million people watched the WBC in 2023, [6] and 55+ million people watched the end of the tournament, as Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout.
The Japan–South Korea baseball rivalry is a sports rivalry contested between the national baseball teams of Japan and South Korea.One of many rivalries between the two East Asian countries, the two teams met officially at the 1954 Asian Baseball Championship and have contested several high-profile games since, including several Summer Olympics and the final of the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
The Japan-Italy quarterfinal game broke the Japanese WBC viewership record. It drew an average 48.0% household viewership in Japan and averaged 38.2 million viewers. [37] [38] In the United States, the World Baseball Classic was carried by Fox Sports for the first time, with games split among
Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki angered many South Koreans after he told reporters ahead of the inaugural 2006 WBC that he wanted to beat South Korea and other Asian teams so overwhelmingly ...
The South Korean national baseball team (Korean: 대한민국 야구 국가대표팀), also known as the Blue Wave (Korean: 푸른물결), is the national baseball team of South Korea. It has participated in every edition of the World Baseball Classic (WBC), reaching the finals in 2009 , and won the WBSC Premier12 in 2015 .
South Korea won the coin flip held after the second semifinal between Japan and the United States, designating them as the home team for the final. [1] Japan drew first blood, scoring on a RBI single by Michihiro Ogasawara in the third inning. Shin-Soo Choo tied the score 1−all with a home run in the fifth inning.
On 11 September 2023, the WBSC officially announced the third staging of the tournament for 2024, to be hosted in Japan, Taiwan and a venue in the Americas, [11] later chosen to be Mexico. [12] In October 2024, the WBSC announced that the tournament will expand to 16 teams beginning in 2027.
The 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international baseball competition. It began on March 5 and finished March 23. It began on March 5 and finished March 23. Unlike in 2006 , when the round-robin format of the first two rounds led to some eliminations being decided by run-difference tiebreakers, the first two rounds of the 2009 edition ...