LOS ANGELES — Ichiro Suzuki was having the worst World Baseball Classic imaginable leading up to the WBC final.

He changed all that with one swing.

Ichiro broke a 10th-inning tie with a two-run single and Yu Darvish closed out the game as Japan won its second consecutive World Baseball Classic title with a 5-3 win over South Korea in front of a tournament-record crowd of 54,846 in Los Angeles on Monday night.