A day after the first of two games being used to help determine the makeup of the national baseball team resulted in a 7-0 drubbing, manager Koji Yamamoto's squad tried to get the whipping out of its system in practice on Monday.
"Yesterday, we had one of those games that you just have to put behind you," said Fukuoka Softbank Hawks outfielder Seiichi Uchikawa, one of 33 players vying for 28 spots on Yamamoto's final roster for March's 2013 World Baseball Classic.
"You reflect on what happened and go out and do the things that need doing. Now the thing is to carry that over to real games," he added about the whitewash suffered at the hands of the Hiroshima Carp.