{"id":623329,"date":"2026-03-14T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:58:22","slug":"yoshinobu-yamamoto-yusei-kikuchi-hit-miami-park-for-pitching-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/623329\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Yusei Kikuchi Hit Miami Park For Pitching Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Yusei Kikuchi<br \/>\n                          Pitch Perfect In Miami Park<br \/>\n                          &#8230; Ahead Of WBC Quarterfinal<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              March 14, 2026<br \/>\n                            12:30 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7300c36eacee4e50bbafb291b71c097f_md.jpg\" alt=\"031226_yamamoto_kikuchi_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZSports.com<\/p>\n<p>Team Japan is set to take the field on Saturday against Venezuela in the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic in Miami &#8230; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/yoshinobu-yamamoto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> and his teammate &#8212; L.A. Angels pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/yusei-kikuchi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> &#8212; gave folks at the park an up-close look at their arms!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TMZ Sports<\/a> obtained footage of the duo hitting a nearby park not long after they landed in the 305 earlier this week &#8230; which shows them working on their mechanics as they get set not only for more WBC action &#8212; but also for the upcoming MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260313_e1510f079e9344deb7ae781a0b9bc98d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e6a24d85-1928-4a69-95af-42547831991e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e1510f079e9344deb7ae781a0b9bc98d_md.png\" alt=\"Yoshinobu Yamamoto Yusei Kikuchi split sub getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily for the two, they seemed to avoid drawing any crowd as they did their thing &#8212; perhaps the parkgoers were oblivious to the star power in their presence.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s set to be a big night for Yamamoto, as he&#8217;ll take the bump for Samurai Japan, with Ranger Suarez slated to toe the mound for Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now &#8230; Kikuchi is scheduled to start the semifinal matchup, should they make it that far.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260313_a732bee3d9f54696beb76032cbd4362d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e6a24d85-1928-4a69-95af-42547831991e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a732bee3d9f54696beb76032cbd4362d_md.png\" alt=\"Yoshinobu Yamamoto Yusei Kikuchi split sub getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once Yamamoto makes his final start of the event, he will remain with the squad for as long as they keep playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Yusei Kikuchi Pitch Perfect In Miami Park &#8230; Ahead Of WBC Quarterfinal Published March 14, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,169,185,317,1564],"class_list":{"0":"post-623329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-angels","12":"tag-laangels","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesangels","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-news","21":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116227180182720187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}