Red Sox outfielder Masataka Yoshida continued to dominate in the World Baseball Classic on Thursday night as he added a home run to his tournament stats.
Yoshida’s two-run bomb in the seventh inning put the exclamation point on Japan’s 9-3 win over Italy in the tournament’s quarterfinals. The shot was Yoshida’s sixth hit of the WBC and represented his ninth and 10th RBI.
Yoshida’s 10 RBI not only leads team Japan but is also the highest mark in the entire tournament. His .400 batting average is third on the team behind Shohei Ohtani and Yuhei Nakamura who has only gotten five at-bats.