the two biggest stars in the world are going to lead their teams on the field Mike Trout and Team USA show Otani and team Japan what a showcase for the game we have here tonight with a title on the line Welcome To The World Baseball Classic from Lone Depot Park in Miami Florida and our championship game it's the United States against Japan oh I've been waiting for this play ball so here we go and Japan's manager very confident in this young man sha and managa four Innings on two games three hits one ear run look
this is a guy who's going to feature a pretty good fast ball good riding four seam fast ball but his biggest pitch is that split can he throw it enough times to get the hitters off the fast one of the many Treasures on this night is Mike Trout in a championship game that one is hit to shallow right field condo has to race in and it's going to fall base hit trout going to try for second the throw the slide he's safe well you want to talk about five tool player America's Captain oh my goodness
pressure at all times nobody destroyed left-handers like Paul goldi did last year got it that right there was a good split that's a guy that's understanding hey I'm going to rush him up and in and then I'm going to slow him down with the split change right there he might have got he's 29 years old he's been around a while not out of the woods yet Nolan arado first pitch swing ground ball the first pick by okamoto he'll take it to the bag himself for the put out and the United States is retired Merill Kelly
what an opportunity for the veteran right-hander the once in a lifetime sh Otani who's continued to do the unthinkable in this classic otan takes ball four he's close but a two out walk two gone in this first inning inning kept alive for masaki Yoshida he takes three fall dropped by real mut he'll apply the tag and that's a good start for Merill Kelly well here we go Trey Turner who's been awesome the last two games had the home run that Team USA will never forget in the come from behind win against Venezuela and then two
home runs against Cuma in the semis Turner hits another one down the left field line he's done it again it's gone America's short stop Trey Turner we talked about the wave he's riding a big wave trying to throw that cheese inside TR Turner was absolutely ready for it incredible what a week for Trey Turner you think he's feeling it two on two out Lukie bets swings at that pitch and hits a Fly ball to left field Yoshida will make the catch short of the warning track and Muki might have just missed one 5 six and
seven comes up for Japan with mutaka murakami last night's hero to lead off now a first pitch swing morakami crushes one into the second deck tie game David takes one swing that happened last night the drive to left Center to Win It season of the fastball tonight tie ball game muracami is no surprise to big games and big swings the two-time MVP has come up huge for Japan you want to answer back there it is right there and Japan has the bases loaded to the top of the order these next five hitters not only are
they the best hitters Japan has but they are all left-handed and you've got the Lefty Loop ready to go you know in Newar last year in 202 to he hit left-handers better than right-handers at a 273 Mark Nar breaks his back slow roller to first base Gold's only plays to First and luk just got there to get the out on the play okamoto comes in to score so Japan takes its first lead two to one that's the downside on Loop is he gets soft contact in a situation when you need double plays now a chance
for more with kensuke condo the onew that one is popped up into center field Mike Trout is there for out number three and all things considered Aaron Luke did a really good job back to- back two out walks and the guy who has dominated play here in Miami is coming to the plate not this time the splitter strikes him out so Togo walks to but gets through Turner so the new pitcher Kyle Freeland immediately has to face Otani here's the 3-2 pitch Otani take strike three call that was a good slider right there on Freeland
going to work quickly on sh Otani so after Freeland struck out Otani he gives up the four pitch walk with mutaka murakami coming to the plate and a first pitch swing could be two Anderson to second one Turner to first got him double play nicely turned by Team USA and their defense Kyle Freeland third pitcher for Team USA faces Kazuma okamoto to open the fourth going to swing on a high fly ball left center field and deep Mullins at the wall it's gone okam oh no surprise past five seasons 30 plus home runs we know
the power is there and aoto 164 home runs in that span he got a good pitch to hit right there boy oh boy he did not miss it top of the order for the United States BS is over for two today on the fast ball big Chopper to third going to be a tough play the throw low and got him at first I don't know the intentional bounce and perfect to first base Team USA is going to challenge it was bang bang boy mooki really smelled that hit wow I think oh yeah I think he's
safe safe I think he's safe just barely so they overturn the call with replay and mookie bets just terrific hustle and speed and it is Kyle scharber the national league home run Champion two on two out he represents the go-ahead run in the WBC Championship Takahashi SCH swings three and it's a flyball center field in the ballpark nbar for out number three he took a chance there and just missed it so that's a one out walk with Otani coming up and Japan's got a lot of great hitters we've seen him in this tournament but you
just have a hard time thinking you're going to let this guy beat you in a championship game Otani got jammed hits the ground ball Anderson there to make the play and throw out Otani and you got to give a lot of credit to Freeland right there with JT Realo wanting the slider and freelance saying no I trust my fast ball I trust my ride my sink on it and I'm going to jam show right here to hopefully get a double play he he jammed him now he's got to get through Yoshida here's the two two
Yoshida topper right back to the bound Cal Freeland has it and he throws him outan inning Perfection for Mr Freeland so with two outs and nobody on Jason Adam has walked the base is loaded and team you USA's Bullpen this whole time has been quiet this game has got to stay 3-1 if USA is going to have a chance Lars Nar oh for three but with a run batted in Bases Loaded two down Nar Fly ball right field mie bets is there it was not easy but somehow someway Jason Adam got through it Japan leaves
the bases loaded so the leadoff walk from Jeff mcneel and it's Mookie Betts who add an infield single in the fifth BS line drive base hit just hit it too hard past the reach of genda and Team USA has two on nobody out with Mike Trout coming up these are the Innings where you win them and lose them and you have the best hitter in the planet Mike Trout trout flying drive right field condo leads forward to make the catch that one almost fooled him maybe the lights maybe the spin on the ball a huge
first out to get through trout Paul gold Schmid comes up here here he's over for three two on now one out is on the ground to short genda flips the second one throw to first got him double play OT two on nobody out and he gets through trout and goldi that's there's just truly no comparison there's no player like sh Otani in the game Otani hits it hard and a diving stab from his knees the throw not in time otan big strong and he's too fast they're going to challenge that's as close as it gets
that is that's just too close that is as close as it could possibly be I think he was safe I think he's safe too even without the microphone the call Safe the play stands and now one out base runner for masataka Yoshida that one is hit on the ground to Arana he'll flip to Turner the throw to first in plenty of time double play so the hit for Otani but bedar gets the ground ball we'll go to the eighth well they have pieced it together to get it to this point where finally The Familiar name
comes in UD darish for the eighth inning now schwarber who comes up now he doesn't have as many at bats against darish but those that he's had great success schwarber drives it to deep right field it is gone into the second deck it's a one-run game what an advat hey the longer the atat the more hope for Team USA schwarber cuts the lead what a swing what a bat he got the splitter he was set up for the splitter the splitter was up and scherber did not miss it what a not bat what a swing
what a change of possibly momentum we we'll make the same point we did in the six now you're a base hitway from an enormous extra run genda on the ground to third arado pass it throws to First and just in time to get him and that was very close so here we go the dream scenario the dream matchup and within that dream matchup the dream scenario sh Otani on for the ninth inning 91 and2 coming up for the United States in a one-run game that's Jeff mcneel Mookie Betts and Mike Trout another 3-2 pitch from
Otani mcneel takes ball for it just a little bit low Lance has been tight all night and I think that was the right pitch and the right call Lukie bets and then trout one run game nth inning here's the 01 mooki on the ground to Second we'll see if they can turn two that's one that's two it's a double play and Japan is one out away we said it since the beginning of the start of this game Japan will do everything right to win a ball game and they're one out way with their leader their
Captain Manu Manu right here USA's Captain versus Japan's Captain first time they've ever faced each other they've been teammates for 5 years the best against the best Otani to Trout ball one we waited a long time to say that speechless how much to say but enjoy otani's 10 high at 100 miles an hour is this fun or what Japan hoping to celebrate USA looking for heroics trout takes off the outside it is unbelievable it's it's 100 miles hour cutting now that pitch just cut that's a ball great take here's the pitch trout swings and misses
pure challenge I wouldn't want it any other way my best stuff against your best swing two2 to Mike Trout here's the pitch and the dirt at 102 baseball wins tonight match up we've all been wanting to see three and two from Otani he throws Trout strikes out swinging Otani and Japan celebrate World Baseball Classic championship and on this night the great sh Otani in Japan just a little bit better than Mike Trout and USA what an ending to an alltime tournament we got to see what we came to see and show Otani got it done
incredible mission accomplished for Japan
