 Otani steps up to the plate the ninth inning in one of the best back-and-forth baseball games I've seen in a while Semi-final of the world baseball classic Japan is down one run Otani's at the plate First pitch is away. He doesn't care sends it into right center field gets on his horse Rips the helmet off on to second and he's gonna come up stand and screaming at his teammates. Come on Come on. Now that pitch There's two things about this pitch that I want to talk about one Gallegos should have never thrown it because it's his third best pitch He throws it five percent of the time in the regular season Otani Making beat you on your best pitch not your third best pitch That being said it's a nice pitch that Otani turns on. It's a change-up high It's going away probably called a ball and Otani just attacks it basically said Put it near the zone and I'm hitting the double and getting my team going here That is a nice piece of hitting it But I think if Otani beats you you're not gonna want him to beat you on your third pitch that you throw five percent of The time next up newest red sock Yoshida and he's gonna take ball one take ball two Take ball three and there was a strike and then take ball four Take his base say your turn your turn, buddy Now this kid was nicknamed Babe Ruth in Japan because he hits a ton of homers Where's 55 on his back because of Matsui and they got a pinch runner who looks at Otani since I'm coming for you, dude I'm gonna chase you down first pitch fastball. Oh, he wanted that one. He's like, oh Throw that again Slider down nice pitch, but he says throw me that fastball again. Throw me that fastball again. Thank you very much That was a little higher than the first one I liked it a lot off the wall Otani scores and the pinch runner scores Right behind him and then does a great 180 spin to helmet toss. We got to watch that again So a tiny had to watch the ball to see if it was gonna be in the in the alley or not But the pinch runner he had a great read I mean Otani touches the plate here and that dude touches the plate right behind him Crazy speed and a good read on the ball and then he's gonna go 180 fist pump slide. You can't teach that watch this Really take it in he's sliding he scores Okay, he leads with the left hand. I'm going up now fist pump 180 spin the helmets off and in the air right away. You can't teach that It's perfect. It's perfect walk-off slide and then they go celebrate with the Babe Ruth's guy We got a double water bottleer behind him. I love that. I love a double water bottleer But I like I like I like the double fist screaming at the heavens You look at him screaming in the pile I think he doesn't realize he's surrounded by his teammates I think this is a celebration for him and him alone and he's just going double fist Ah to the heavens Just in the zone and he was actually Pretty chill Look rounding the bases just kind of watching it. Is it going to be a homer? Is it going to be off the wall? I think he thinks it's going to be a homer. Oh, it's going to be off the wall. Is he going to score? Okay, great. Look at my hair. It's beautiful mess it up with some water Let's get to screaming and here he is And yeah, there's one water bottle and then there comes the double water bottleer right here Bam and he gets them good number 33 both streams Get some in motion You darvishes behind him and then a coach is going to come onto your screen top left With just there he is Look at that smile Oh my god, that is a proud and happy smile from that coach Oh man, and then this guy crying big old fan That was an awesome awesome game Team japan thanks to fans for coming out and they thank them for putting on a show They're playing team usa in the championship tomorrow. Whoa