 Team USA versus Team Japan in the championship game. Mike Trout at the plate. Pfft. Shohei Otani on the bump. If this was a script, this is what you'd write. A one-run game, two outs, first pitch. He opens him up with a slider just below the zone. Let's watch it again. Oh, Trout looks like he was kind of taking the whole way. See? Yeah, I think Trout was taking the whole way and it's below the zone. So that's nice for Mike because maybe he chases that if he's gonna try and swing. That looks like three fingers the catcher's putting down, but it's a fastball. Calls for a fastball here and Shohei puts one on an absolute line. Bottom of the zone. Trout is behind it. Look at this pitch. Just... Oh my God. 100 miles per hour. Voo! That's the noise it would make. Voo! So now you go fastball after the slider. You're gonna mix it up and go back to the slider. You're gonna double up the fastballs 100 miles per hour. The team is ready to celebrate. They double up the fastball and it's got so much like cut to it. I think he just yanked it and it has naturally that way. I think that's just a yank. He has a cutter, but it sits like 91 miles per hour, not 100. So now two fastballs in a row Trout and that one was just off the plate. Is he gonna go three in a row? Yep. And that is what you pay to see. If I told you, hey, are you interested in seeing Shohei Otani throw a 100 mile per hour fastball right down the middle to Mike Trout who's swinging as hard as he can to hit it, would you be interested in that? I think you'd say, yeah, I'd love to see that. Oh, just under it. Because it's got so much ride to it. It stays through the zone because it's just a really, really nice pitch. There's the grip on it. Oh, man, that's fast. So now, oh, that was a lot of fastballs. Is he gonna throw another one? It seems like a good pitch. Shohei says, yes. But he yanked that one too. Got it up to 102 miles per hour. Whoops. All right. So now it's three, two. You don't wanna walk him. You wanna be a hero. You wanna go after him. You've only thrown one slider. You've thrown fastballs the rest of the way. He swung and missed that two fastballs. Conventional wisdom would say, throw another fastball in the zone, blow it by him. Don't get too cute. What does he do? He gets so cute at sexy, throws a slider on the three, two count. And before we go look at the celebration, you have to see the overlay of these two pitches. It's nuts. Nuts. What a ballsy pitch. And I think he would've got a strike in the zone anyway because it crosses the plate. It crosses over the plate. I mean, they like completely cross right there. What a pitch, man. Let's watch it again slow-mo. Oh, that's such a good and fun pitch. 87 miles per hour after the 100 mile per hour fastballs. All right, let's see the celebration. The pitch is thrown, little fist pump, giant scream, off with the glove, off with the hat. And then he's gonna celebrate with his team. And I got worried here, man, because I was like, oh, Shohei, you gotta hug your catcher before you hug your teammates. And that's exactly what he does. All class. He knows the rules. Listen, the catcher and the pitcher, your battery mates, you gotta make sure that usually you go to each other. Shohei veered the other way. The catcher had to kind of chase him down. But he knew, he knew, hold up, guys, hold up. Where are you? Where are you? Okay, great job, great job, great job. I'm gonna go celebrate the rest of the team. Great, you do your thing, I'm gonna do my thing. Catcher had a great reaction. Little freeze frame ending right there to a movie. How about it? Here's the catcher and his, I'm guessing best friend on the team. Or maybe they don't know each other that well, but they found each other in this moment and that's beautiful. And then this third guy comes in, he's like, we get along, we get along, right? And then another freeze frame movie ending. I love how much Japanese players give you the movie freeze frame endings that are always pointing up to the heavens and screaming and stuff. And whoa, whoa, another one. Thanks for watching. If you like these, you can subscribe to the channel.