Japan team supervisor Hideki Kuriyama.

(File photo, Associated Press)

[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] The World Baseball Classic officially ignited the war. The Japanese team will play China for the first time tomorrow. When taking group commemorative photos today, two "Takuya Kai" appeared. It turned out that the supervisor Hideki Kuriyama forgot to bring his jersey.

According to comprehensive Japanese media reports, when the Japanese team took a group photo at the Tokyo Dome today, the jersey worn by Kuriyama was not his own, but the No. 10 jersey of Softbank catcher Takuya Kai, so there were two 10s in the first row of the Japanese team group photo. Number.

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Later, at the press conference announcing the starting pitcher for tomorrow, Director Kuriyama confided the truth a little embarrassingly: "I just forgot to bring the jersey, so I borrowed the clothes from Kai. Tomorrow, Kai should play." He hinted at the starting catcher tomorrow. It was Kai Takuya.

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