A day after outplaying Japan in a tough loss, Australia cracked in a 10-3 loss in their World Baseball Classic warmup game at Kyocera Dome on Sunday.
Kazuo Matsui of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles brought Japan from behind with a three-run triple and plated four runs as Japan scored five unearned runs against an Australia side that made four errors.
Japan exploited some poor control from Australia's Ryan Rowland-Smith to score two runs in the first inning on RBI singles by Seiichi Uchikawa and Hisayoshi Chono.