USA vs. Japan: MINI-MOVIE of 2023 World Baseball Classic Championship | MLB on FOX

you hoped when a tournament that's been

as great as this one you get a

championship matchup that's fitting and

this one seems like it when you looked

at the teams in the bracket you figured

these two teams could meet up it's USA

against Japan for a world champion yeah

it really is a dream match up and with

March Madness who thought could Trump

that well this might trump it

so if all that is not enough already how

about the fact you mentioned we gotta

show hey Otani we've got Mike Trout as

well baseball for a long time has wanted

to see these guys on the big stage and

tonight we get to see him against one

another these angels teammates against

each other with a championship up for

grad

baseball stars are perfectly aligned

tonight for these two teams to match up

for a world championship

way to swing it you're over three you

can get a bloop and two bloops and you

feel like you're locked in so that swing

and that result I'm sure turned him in

to on fire

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done it again

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friends

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foreign

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this is the two-time MVP in Japan

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on him

two new car hustles into first

scorchedman was playing deep so his only

play is at first and a race to the back

Luke just barely wins it okamoto scores

through the back door Japan takes its

first lead of the night the Mars new car

with an RBI bounce out who want Japan

dream match up for the championship

United States and Japan 2-1 Japan in

front

Drive left center field Mullins on his

horse to the track at the wall it's gone

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and Japan grows its lead

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one of the two guys to have a thousand

strikeouts in both countries you garbage

a day or no more

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fly to right field condo turns here it

goes straightened it out

and wow did that get out in a hurry

so here we go the dream scenario the

dream match up and within that dream

match up the dream scenario

shoheheotanian for the ninth inning

9-1-2 coming up for the United States in

a one-run game

has been called the modern day Babe Ruth

but calling him the modern day Babe Ruth

keep in mind babe is only a true two-way

player for two full seasons shohei

otani's already done it for three

they always say hitter to tell you

prepare for the fastball adjust

otherwise

hard to do the other look for slider and

adjust the fastball it doesn't work

field the batting champion in the

National League last year leading off

the ninth inning Against shoheo Time who

fires another 3-2 that's bull four to

start tonight

this is the strike zone you're talking

about

Tyler on a board with pinch running

mookie bets at the plate

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a Fastball The Corner for a strike

two meetings with Otani he mentioned it

he's walked and he's Homer

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bouncing ball to Second your monitor

short over the first two

a double play has Japan won out away

Taylor Made I mean you couldn't ask for

a better setup for two guys that can run

foreign

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one's coming back for the trophy

Gill said last night

baseball's already

the one old fish

swaying and a miss a fast Walden 100 a

not from trout a one-on-one count

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Ries just outside

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foreign

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Trout's ready

and Japan's back on top of a very small

world

man which won the first two World

Baseball classics

no 6-09

lost in the semi is the last two and

spent six years preparing for this as

shohei Otani Strikes Out Mike Trout

and Japan beats the United States three

to two in the championship game

let's just say this poppy ohtani is in a

different stratosphere

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