Kaito Kozono went 3-for-5 with two home runs and seven RBIs, leading Japan to a 9-1 rout of the United States in their first game of the Premier12 baseball tournament's Super Round on Thursday.Defending champion Japan extended its winning streak across all international competitions, including the World Baseball Classic and the Olympics, to 25.Kozono tripled home two runs to give Japan the lead for good at 3-1 in the fifth inning and hit a three-run homer in the seventh before adding a two-run blast in the eighth."I wanted to get a hit and turn the tide of the game in the fifth," Kozono sai…READ FULL ARTICLE
