Getting your Trinity Audio player ready Masataka Yoshida has been a difference-maker for Team Japan throughout the first round of the World Baseball Classic in precisely the way the 2026 Red Sox need. Japan’s formidable lineup, which features baseball unicorn Shohei Ohtani in the leadoff spot, was having an uncharacteristically quiet day at the plate Sunday. Australia took a 1-0 lead in the top of the sixth. Less than two innings later it was gone, on Yoshida’s go-ahead two-run homer off left-hander Jon Kennedy, and Japan won 4-3 to improve to clinch Pool C’s top seed. So far through...
