By agcoeficiente10 on Skatehive
In what was undoubtedly a very exciting game—many called it David versus Goliath—but that wasn’t really true. Venezuela is a baseball powerhouse, and that’s no secret to the world, so what people were saying was quite off the mark. Expectations for the game were undoubtedly very high. Venezuela was facing the reigning champions from the last World Baseball Classic. The game began with a home run—Ronald Acuña Jr.’s first at-bat against one of the best Major League pitchers, Yoshinobu Yamamoto—which put Venezuela ahead 1-0. Then, as if scripted for a movie, Shohei Ohtani also hit a home run, tying the game and marking the first time in history that both teams hit home runs in the first inning. Japan took the lead in the third inning, going up 5-2 on a three-run homer by Morishita off Ranger Suárez. It seemed like history was repeating itself, but Omar López’s team never gave up. In the fifth, Maikel García brought Venezuela closer with a two-run homer, putting his team within one run of