Inspirational Ohtani beats the Americans at their own game
Shugo Maki #3 and Shohei Ohtani #16 of Team Japan celebrate after defeating Team USA during the World Baseball Classic Championship at loanDepot park on March 21, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Pic: Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
The greatest baseball player in the world and potentially of all time gathered his Japanese teammates around him in the depths of the Miami Marlins ballpark on Tuesday evening.
Shohei Ohtani’s rousing speech to fire the players up before they left the locker room will go down as an all-timer, too.
