みなさん、こんにちは！Recently, I watched a documentary on Netflix about Japan's journey in this years' World Baseball Classic. 子どもの時にやきゅうが大好きをはじめます。My Dad has always been a big Chicago Cubs fan and so I adopted that as I grew up, especially when the Cubs won the World Series in 2016. 私のおじさんはアリゾナのスコッツデールに住んでいますから、私は子どもの時年に一回MLB スプリングトレイニングに行きました。
でも、十四才の時にシアトルで大谷翔平を見ました。今、私の好きなやきゅうせんしゅは大谷さんです。I was visiting family in Seattle and we went and saw the Mariners play the Angels. I hadn't really been paying attention to the MLB at that point but Ohtani was gaining a lot of fame. 高校の前に夏休みです。それから、高校の時に日本語を勉強し始めました。I didn't know at that point that baseball was that popular in Japan, but now there's so many Japanese players in the MLB and I think that's really cool. Ohtani plays such a big role as captain for Samurai Japan, you could tell in the documentary when he arrived in Osaka to start preparing for the WBC how the younger players truly admired and looked up to him. I thought it was also interesting how Ohtani is so close with Seiya Suzuki, who plays for the Chicago Cubs. They're the same age and have a close both through baseball, they've represented team Japan internationally multiple times so it was cool to see how they interact and their playful banter off of the field. In Miami, Suzuki injured his knee while sliding into second base, you can tell even though they aren't regularly teammates Ohtani takes on a role that is showing concern for Suzuki while also leading the rest of the team through the game. That part of being an athlete is not usually shown so seeing that part of the struggle during this WBC really added to the documentary.
In 2023 Japan won the World Baseball classic and although this documentary is from this year it was really fun to see the preparation that it take since there are so many different players coming together since this series is only played once every four years. A lot of them come from various MLB teams so seeing them come together is fun as well. Even though Japan won the Championship in 2023, they lost to Venezuela in the quarterfinals who then went on and won the championship.
The documentary was fully in Japanese so I enjoyed the listening practice and tried not to rely on the subtitles too much. I think watching the players and staff interacting with one another was also helpful for casual speech and how certain words and expressions are used. I highly recommend this documentary especially if you like baseball I found it to be super entertaining and it was a very good watch!
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