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Rouki Sasaki got up early in his dayoff to wait for Willie Escala in front of hotel before Czechia departed to ballpark. He personally apologized for misplacing his rocket 🚀 right into Willie’s knee 🦵🏻and bought him two bags of candy 🍭 RESPECT! 🇨🇿🤝🇯🇵 #CzechIN #escala
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Sportsmanship at its best! @roukisasakii waiting for our boy to make sure he’s okay and treating him with some Japanese candy gotta be the class act moment of @WBCBaseball 🇨🇿🤝🇯🇵 Let’s hope there some painkillers too…
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Speechless! 🇨🇿🫶🏻 Best player of baseball history paying respect to our boys… that’s alright @MLB @WBCBaseball #CzechIN #baseballczech
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👀 @ShoheiOhtani out there casually wearing #baseballczech cap while arriving in USA for @WBCBaseball semifinals!!! 🇨🇿🫶🏻 What a great honor!
🎥 : Twitter.com/Syo365aoOoø
#CzechIN #baseballczech @MLB @MLBNetwork @MilujemeBasebal @MLBONFOX
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Thank you, Tokyo! 🇯🇵 You really were great to us 🙏🏻 #XCzechIN #baseballczech
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🗣️“Japan is the world’s best team, Japanese fans are the best in the world and Ichiro Suzuki is the best player off all time.” Safe to say our manager and neurologist Pavel Chadim conquered the heart of his favorite country. Pavel loves Japan 🇯🇵 and Japan loves Pavel!
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What a great honor to have the take on the best in the world… 🇨🇿 🤝 🇯🇵 twitter.com/situlove115/st…
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Shohei Ohtani sure doesn’t look bad in #baseballczech gear! 🇨🇿 Any chance he’s got some Czech heritage…? Someone pls check, we could find a spot for him at the European championship in fall 🤯
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#baseballczech hats 🇨🇿 are apparently sold out in all sizes after Shohei Ohtani’s arrival in Miami. That’s craaaaazyyyyyyy 🤯 …talk about spreading the game worldwide! @WBCBaseball
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Lesson learned against the world’s #1 Japan 🇯🇵 Still enjoyed the hell out of that one. Lot of fun to take on reigning olympic champs 👊🏻 #CzechIN #baseballczech
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Let’s go back one more time to the phenomenal atmosphere yesterday. Biggest attendance at any 🇨🇿 national team game ever… 🤯 #CzechIN #baseballczech
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We will be there in 2026 ⚾️🇨🇿
#baseballczech twitter.com/WBCBaseball/st…
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How do you like'em white jerseys? 🇨🇿 #CzechIN
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🎶 Stand up , for the champions!!! Did you hear the story about bunch of 9to5 guys and college students who battled their heart out against 3x World Champions?! 🥇 Huge congratulations team Japan! It was such a great honor to learn from the best 🇯🇵 #CzechIN #baseballczech
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Let's do a "no comment" on this one... 🤫 #CzechIN
📷 by: Sam Cooper
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It's official ✅🇨🇿
Willie "The Rock" Escala received Czech citizenship and honors for his contributions to Czech sports at the World Baseball Classic. Welcome to the family ⚾️
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It’s crazy how this absolute god of baseball can look so humanish in real life… 🤯 #CzechIN 📷: Tomas Icik
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…can you believe those guys??!!! They really balled out in Tokyo to clinch the @WBCBaseball berth for 2026! 🤯 #CzechIN #baseballczech
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The Japanese are the best baseball fans in the world. 🫶🇯🇵 Not only did we feel a huge amount of support from them during our premiere World Baseball Classic in Tokyo, we thank them so much for that. We also received a lot of gifts and letters after the tournament, which is quite… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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What an incredible group of guys… even though a tough loss today, we just can’t be more proud of this team. Special! 🇨🇿 #CzechIN #baaeballczech
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Casually spreading the word about Czech Extraleague in Tokyo Dome 🇨🇿👋🏻 Our top league starts in less than two weeks, let's goooo! Schedule: extraliga.baseball.cz/rozpis-vysledky
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