Sadaharu Oh
Sadaharu Oh
Sadaharu Oh, also known as Wang Chen-chih, is a retired Japanese–Chinese baseball player and manager who played 22 seasons for the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseballfrom 1959 to 1980. Oh holds the world lifetime home run record, having hit 868 home runs during his professional career. He established many NPB batting records, including runs batted in, slugging percentage, bases on balls, and on-base plus slugging. In 1977, Sadaharu Oh became the first recipient of the People's Honor award. He...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 May 1940
CountryJapan
My players showed me a fantastic performance tonight. I know they're doing it for Japan.
That was the mindset of the entire team. We kept pushing hard and our players played with all their might.
I never coached a team for a tournament like this, and never thought the pressure to be so high. Baseball is the best sport. Everyone has to work together. There is nothing more wonderful than that Japanese players did such a wonderful job and showed that to everyone in the world.
I thought, at first, our players were a little bit nervous. But we take pride in being the best in Asia, so we loosened up after the fourth inning and were able to score a big victory.
Our games were very close games. I believe either team could have won either game. We would like to show our best performance this time.
I thought I would never, never get a chance to manage a team like this.
We fought each game as best as we could, and as a result we've been able to bring you good news.
Wada didn't really have a lot of control tonight. But that doesn't change my overall trust in him.
We have to win all three games. So I will make sure they stay focused on (Sunday's) game.
Tomorrow if we can win, we'll be happy. What happened (on Sunday), happened. It's in the past now and it's time to move on.
We respect that they fought their heart out to show the best game ever.
We struggled to score runs against some very good pitching.
If we can win, there won't be any problem, we'll be happy with that. What happened happened. It's already in the past. It's done. So it's over. So what we're looking at is in the future.
I don't know about the politics, but since it's named the World Baseball Classic, I would like to see the Cuban team there.