This year’s World Baseball Classic created some lasting on-field memories, but there were also some key injuries that will be discussed all year as well
Shohei Ohtani’s strikeout of Mike Trout, Trea Turner’s go-ahead, eighth-inning grand slam against Venezuela, Japan’s walk-off semi-final win and Mexico’s comeback from a four-run deficit against Puerto Rico will be replayed over and over.
Played in Miami, Phoenix, Tokyo and Taiwan, the star-studded WBC will finish with revenue of $90-million to $100-million, Major League Baseball said. Attendance of 1,306,414 was the tournament’s highest, 20 per cent over the 1,086,720 for 40 games in 2017. Concerns about player health have followed the tourney since its inception. Many MLB teams blocked pitchers from participating, wanting them to concentrate on preparing for the season’s start. Injuries to Diaz and Altuve reinforced those concerns.
Japan drew three of the four most-watched WBC games ever back home going into the championship game, getting a 48.7 rating for the quarter-final against Italy, 44.4 for the first-round game against South Korea and a 42.5 for the semi-final vs. Mexico. The figures represent the percentage of television households tuned to a telecast.
“These two weeks are going to attract so many young players in Mexico and also Mexicans that live abroad,” manager Benji Gil said.
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