It was such a humiliation for the Japanese pitchers.
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Not just Hirotoshi Ishii's performance in the top of the eighth inning, in which he gave up a game-winning homer to Lee Seung Yeop, in Team Japan's 3-2 loss to Korea on March 5, but the whole pitching staff in the "Hinomaru" uniform has yet to show its best pitching in the World Baseball Classic.