Shugo Maki hits grand slam to energy Japan to victory over Venezuela at Premier12

Shugo Maki, the joyful and exuberant coronary heart of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, has assumed the mantle of the Samurai Japan mood-maker since busting out his dance strikes when the workforce gained the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

So with the followers at Tokyo Dome instantly feeling anxious as Venezuela pushed the workforce’s again towards the wall on the Premier12, it fell to Maki to raise everybody’s spirits.

Maki put the ending touches on a sixth-inning rally with a grand slam that propelled Japan to a 9-6 win over Venezuela in a showdown between the highest two groups at this 12 months’s Premier12 on Friday night time.