Samurai Japan completed a sweep of its two-game friendly series with Taiwan, coming from behind to record a 9-3 win on Sunday.
The game was close until two-time World Baseball Classic champion Japan lit up right-hander Chen Hung-wen in the ninth. With the 2017 WBC now less than a year away, the two international games will be the last for Samurai Japan until November.
"The WBC starts around this time next year and it's likely we face Taiwan so we'll prepare well," manager Hiroki Kokubo said. "It's hard to overestimate how good our pitchers were. Those guys from Taiwan have some great swings. We succeeded because we located. Had we missed more, it could have been scary."