SAN DIEGO -- Meet me in the middle. Cuba and Japan will meet Monday night in the World Baseball Classic finals, bringing Asia and Caribbean together at Petco Park in a finals pairing few expected. That includes at least one of the teams involved.
Ichiro Suzuki takes batting
practice ahead of
Monday's World Baseball
Classic final against Cuba in
San Diego.
"We, the people of Cuba, feel very happy," outfielder Frederich Cepeda said. "This was very unexpected. Everything is possible, nothing is impossible."