Depending on one’s perspective, it was the perfect ending to the most perfect baseball tournament ever.
Team Japan star Shohei Ohtani, the greatest all-around player, maybe ever, faced down Team USA captain Mike Trout, the most decorated star of the past quarter century, to decide which baseball superpower is most powerful.
“Everyone wanted to see the matchup. Obviously, it didn’t go the way I wanted it to,” Trout said. “He won round one. You can’t take anything away from him. To be able to come out of the bullpen, as a starter — that’s Sho-time.” The multi-talented Ohtani hit well in the tournament, but surely won the MVP trophy for that encounter among all-time greats.Shohei Ohtani celebrates with Team Japan after striking out Mike Trout to win the World Baseball Classic.Team USA manager Mark DeRosa noticed Ohtani didn’t look fazed even after opening the inning by walking the Mets’ Jeff McNeil with the Dodgers’ Mookie Betts and Trout coming up. Betts grounded into a double play before the standoff everyone wanted to see.
“The baseball world won tonight,” DeRosa said. “I just wish it would have [ended] differently. I was hoping Mikey was going to pop one out.”
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