{"id":161374,"date":"2026-03-08T16:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=161374"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:25:30","slug":"seiya-suzukis-monster-night-powers-japan-past-korea-two-massive-homers-fuel-8-6-wbc-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=161374","title":{"rendered":"Seiya Suzuki&#8217;s Monster Night Powers Japan Past Korea: Two Massive Homers Fuel 8-6 WBC Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overflow-hidden\" data-lead-image=\"true\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"undefined w-full\" title=\"Seiya Suzuki\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_468,w_2696,h_1516\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/inside_the_cubs\/01kk526gz3wxbnem801g.jpg\" alt=\"Seiya Suzuki\" width=\"2696\" height=\"1516\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex items-center gap-4 ml-1 pb-2 mt-4 md:m-3 text-grey font-group-tiny\" data-lead-image=\"true\">Seiya Suzuki | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images<\/div>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">Seiya Suzuki is playing for Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic and the Chicago Cubs star had a huge role in their win over Korea on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">Suzuki slammed two home runs in the contest, and his teammate, Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, said after the game that Team Japan\u2019s comeback 8-6 win couldn\u2019t have happened without Suzuki\u2019s home runs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">It was a rivalry game and that helped fuel one of the best atmospheres in the WBC to this point. Suzuki\u2019s game helped put him in Team Japan\u2019s history books in the tournament.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-3\">Seiya Suzuki\u2019s two home runs<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">His first home run came with Japan down 3-0 in the first inning. His opposite field two-run shot cut the lead to 3-2 and positioned his country to tie the game later in the inning on a Shohei Ohtani solo home run.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Team Japan cuts into the deficit quick<\/p>\n<p>Seiya Suzuki two-run homer! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldBaseballClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldBaseballClassic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iBVh3gh1nf\">pic.twitter.com\/iBVh3gh1nf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBCBaseball\/status\/2030229721242272127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">The game remained tied until the bottom of the third when Suzuki batted again. This time, his solo home run made it a 4-3 game for Japan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">Korea tied the game at 5-5, and in the bottom of the seventh, Suzuki provided the go-ahead run that stuck. But it wasn\u2019t a third home run. Instead, it was a bases-loaded walk to score Taisei Makihara to make it 6-5. Japan hung on from there for the win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">SEIYA SUZUKI HOMERS AGAIN<\/p>\n<p>Team Japan leads! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldBaseballClassic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldBaseballClassic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oCTPVNc4rJ\">pic.twitter.com\/oCTPVNc4rJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; World Baseball Classic (@WBCBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBCBaseball\/status\/2030239724611239998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">With his two-home run game, he became the third Japanese player in WBC history to do so, something not even Ohtani has done. He joined Tetsuto Yamada, who did it on March 14, 2017, and Shinnosuke Abe, who did it on March 12, 2013.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">Suzuki and Team Japan are currently in pool play action, where five teams will play one another in a round robin format. The top two teams in each pool will advance out of pool play and into quarterfinal action, which is single elimination. Japan has already won its first two games in pool play in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\">The expectation is that Japan, which won the WBC title in 2023 with a win over Team USA, will advance from pool play and into elimination action to defend its crown, with Suzuki in tow.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_63,w_4210,h_2368\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/inside_the_cubs\/01kk525hang2vpv3w5m1.jpg\" alt=\"Seiya Suzuki\" \/>Seiya Suzuki | Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\">Team Japan has two more games left in pool play. Next up is Australia on Sunday at 6 a.m. Eastern on FS1. Australia is also undefeated in pool play, so the game is for the top spot. The last game is on Tuesday against Czechia at 6 a.m. Eastern on FS1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seiya Suzuki | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images Seiya Suzuki is playing for Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic and the Chicago Cubs star had a huge role&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seiya Suzuki&#039;s Monster Night Powers Japan Past Korea: Two Massive Homers Fuel 8-6 WBC Victory - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=161374\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seiya Suzuki&#039;s Monster Night Powers Japan Past Korea: Two Massive Homers Fuel 8-6 WBC Victory - 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