Intro:

Team Japan practices in San Francisco, USA, on Saturday ahead of their World Baseball semi-final match against Puerto Rico.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Koji Yamamoto, Japan Manager (on how his team can avoid being an upset victim to Puerto Rico)

"We don't know what's going to happen in baseball. Each day something different can happen. I can't predict what condition my opponent will be in. I just have to focus on my team and make sure they are in a good mindset."

SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Kenta Maeda, Japan Starting Pitcher For semi-final (on what advice he received from former Japan WBC pitcher on what to expect in the semi-final)

"They told me that on the day I will feel a lot of pressure and that I will go through a lot of tension. It may look easy for an outsider, but there are things you can never really understand until you go through it yourself. That's what we talked about."