SAN DIEGO — Baseball fans around the globe knew about pitchers Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yu Darvish before the start of the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
What they got Wednesday night was a crash course in Hisashi Iwakuma.
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from Japan Times on Thu, Mar 19 2009
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