There wasn’t much to play for in Japan’s World Baseball Classic game against Czechia on Tuesday with the latter already eliminated from the tournament, but the casual tilt still carried a very special meaning for one of Czechia’s most captivating stars.
Ondřej Satoria, who works full-time as an electrician, wrote himself into baseball’s history books for striking out Japan’s Shohei Ohtani in the WBC three years ago. Satoria is employed as an electrical controller at ČEZ Group in Ostrava, Poland but soared to international prominence after baffling Ohtani with a changeup that he rather fittingly calls “The Worker.”
