Seiya Suzuki is beloved by his home country's fans

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki is having a terrific performance in the World Baseball Classic and how he’s beloved in his native Japan.

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0:00.0	I definitely listened to 6-7 score growing up for sure.
0:03.4	Driving around in the car with my dad, you'd always have it on.
0:05.9	Afternoons on the score.
0:08.0	Chorber.
0:08.8	Watches it to light.
0:10.2	He's done it against the prince again.
0:12.4	The United States takes the lead on a blast to the upper deck.
0:17.5	And the one-two crushed left-field line.
0:20.7	Deep Puerto Rico!
0:23.3	Incredible!
0:28.4	Those highlights from Saturday, there had never been a proper walk-off homer in the World
0:35.2	Baseball Classic, and then there were two within like four
0:38.4	hours on Saturday. Venezuela with, sorry, the Netherlands, with Ozzy Albies. And then that one,
0:46.7	team Puerto Rico. And I thought of you, Lawrence, because it was there in Hiram-Bithorne Stadium.
0:51.9	Team Puerto Rico without Lindor, without Correa, without Javi Baez,
0:57.5	yet still, after consternation, the, you know, Puerto Rico has, of course, embraced their team,
1:04.3	and they've got it going right now.
1:06.8	You see our friends Sierra Santos?
1:08.8	She was there with a celebratory Ozzy Albies.
1:12.8	They came and got him with the water cooler.
1:14.6	Amazing.
1:15.4	So she got got, but she enjoyed every minute of it.
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