FULLERTON, Calif. -- Team Japan still can't outrun Sunday night.

News photoDaisuke Matsuzaka loosens up at a Team Japan practice in Anaheim.

As Japan tried to move on from its devastating World Baseball Classic loss to Team USA, Nippon Professional Baseball announced it was planning to file a formal protest of the call that cost Japan what would have been the go-ahead run in its 4-3 loss to the Americans.