Koji Yamamoto made it through his first two games in charge of the Japan national team with a pair of victories against Cuba, the world's top-ranked baseball team.
Now comes the hard part.
Yamamoto made a succcessful return to the dugout after seven years away from the game, and now he'll have to take the lessons learned over the weekend and figure out how to best apply them in March during the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
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