With a few questions left in a news conference to promote the 2009 World Baseball Classic, a Japanese journalist stood up in the back of a banquet room. He wanted to know how David Ortiz and Jason Varitek would feel facing Daisuke Matsuzaka. (Full article: 751 words)

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