Best Broadcast Calls of Japan's amazing walk-off vs. Mexico in World Baseball Classic! 

I watched it life and was kind of caught up in the moment but watching it back I was confused because they don’t show ohtani crossing the plate and then show the guy behind him like seconds after. That dude is blazing fast because ohtani isn’t slow

10secs!!!

Nah Ohtani actually slowed down before reaching home base looking behind him to see where the ball was. But yes that runner was still fast asf

Rewatching this months later is insane. The elite base running shuto displayed is crazy. Read it right off the bat and was GONE

He's really freaking fast, he crossed the plate right after Ohtani did and Ohtani had a huge head start

they know if it wasn't for the modern sports with a prescripted plot it would be much more different

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@@tavomontana3302 Anyone around 40 yrs old remembers when TV started to talk about "football-spectacle" as a single word term (futbol-espectaculo) and how it defined the modern soccer with teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid, which we just recently learned were paying off to referees and media to be portrayed as the biggest winners of that sport.

Not to mention the Japanese fan bowed before the hug, such a beautiful moment that embodies love of the game

Yeah more than major league baseball fans so awesome 😊

You could say it was... a world baseball CLASSIC. I'll see myself out now

@@QwnntmThat’s a good idea

Beautifully scripted by the script writers. Ohtani vs Trout for the last out. Lol.

Oh wow I didn’t know that

It’s doesn’t matter whether you can understand Japanese or not cuz they just say “Murakami did it! Murakami! Murakami! Murakami diiiiiddddd itttt😭😭😭😭 Sayonaraaaaa (walk-off)” lol

@@mi_dy3385now that you mentioned that i re watched it and heard it lol. Still, so much fire.

Great speed and a great jump

And it was not close! He had a fantastic read and had to slow down to not lap Ohtani.

He was flying!!

@@robertbutchko4275 Ohtani cannot run until it was clear it was a double. He does not need to take risks. The runner on First has more time to run back if the ball was caught, hence can take more risk.

There was nobody out so they had to hold up. Had there been two out they would have crossed the plate much sooner. The second base runner is more vulnerable than the first base runner because second base is closer to the outfielders so it's a shorter throw, so the first base runner can move up farther and still have time to get back to first if the ball is caught. The second base runner doesn't have that luxury. The Shuto was probably already close behind Ohtani when they realized it wasn't going to be caught.

then maybe you know why the commentator repeats 'sayonara'. 'Sayonara gachi' is Japanese for walk off win. 😉

@@noriyukitakano2366 yes it is! That’s the first time I have heard in a very long time. It was very なつかしい hearing that.

Shuto . ..Plays for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks NPB🇯🇵......

I also liked Mike Ferrin on SiriusXM. You can really hear the emotion in his voice when he called it.

@@TypeRyRy oh

That's so true. The calls in English tend to sound casual while the calls in languages like spanish and Japanese sound like the announcers sound like fans in the seata taking in the emotions.

@@szlava3641 in most of the countries in the tournament, baseball is their #1 sport and they have a ton of pride and passion for it. In America, baseball isn’t #1 like it used to be. It makes sense that these foreign guys have this reaction.

@@SirGreyy I’m in Canada and only follow the MLB supporting the only team in my country the Blue Jays. I’m exposed to the American version of the game and the broadcast style but I notice this kind of foreign broadcasters passion for other sports like soccer in particular. It’s very different and exciting to hear even though I only speak & understand the english language.

​@@szlava3641 Different sport, but the call by the Japanese broadcaster reminded me of that Icelandic broadcaster going crazy when his team upset England in the FIFA 2016 Euros.

his name is Kaz Sasaki,who was Seattle Mariners closer.

@@46ntnneh63 Oh I think I vaguely remember him, he pitched during the 2000s right

Japanese baseball broadcasters always sound like that when an exciting play happens.

They're anime announcers

Japan's broadcasting was by the far the most energetic and I love it but its actually ironic to call it far elite. In fact its so devoid of content its hilarious. Its essentially MURAKAMI HIT IT! MURAKAMI... MURAKAMI!!!! AAAAAHHHH OHTANI IS COMING HOME AND.... SHUTO HAS COME BACK. GOODBYE (means Walkoff in this scene). The other announcer didn't even get a word in because he was so awed that Murakami hit the ball and was saying GO GO COME HOME. They essentially just turned into fans.

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It's going to be hard to top this game!!

Yeah that game was a treat for all baseball fans, first we get the Trea Turner grand slam and then this...WBC has been amazing to watch 👍 By FAR the best WBC ever. Go USA 🇺🇸

Thanks México for giving us 27 runs in this Wbc series, very exiting year !!

ez game for Japan vs USA

Pretty good point. I’m American and this whole attitude of “wbc doesn’t mean anything” is so annoying. Mean anything to who? 4 out of the 5 Dominican mlb players on their roster said winning the wbc would mean more than the World Series and the other said it would be tied. There was a player who was called by his country’s president and asked to play. The guy on Taiwan who is trying to make the mlb wasn’t gong to play and got so much backlash from the Taiwanese that he basically had no choice. I’m going to misspell his name so I won’t try but the Cuban national on the Mexican team was granted citizenship directly by the president because he said he’d play if he got it. I’d say the wbc sure seems to mean something to a lot of people.

Baseball is growing in popularity globally. It's just declining in the US. Hopefully this tournament will get more Americans back into the game!

Can’t agree enough!! I’m sure these games with such beautiful endings will make more base ball fans in the world, and I really hope more MLB players will be participating on next WBC.

@@jasonanno3881 Mexico had to pull all the stops to get his citizenship, Arozarena is a player you don't refuse if he wants to play for you. Some say that Skip Baylerss is loud, annoying, and they're not really wrong. But he hit the nail in the head when he said about the WBC on Undisputed. "it means nothing, to who? It means to us (fans)"

it was not his tournament so far, but this one moment was enough to make Murakami a legend. Really enjoyed the match, from Germany ~

Thank you for your perspective. You are the first Japan person I write something.... the call of that play from the Japan transmission was the best... the only thing I could understand was “sayonara!”... but it was great. Best wishes against USA. I will be rooting for Japan... from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷...

@@cmorales5 Before Murakami hit, sports commentary said “become a legend”. It was iconic

@@AJ-fo2pl well I cannot read that...

@@AJ-fo2pl ご指摘ありがとうございます

We lost to a great team well done

🇲🇽🤝🇯🇵Good Game!

Siempre es gratificante enfrentar a un rival tan honorable como Japón. Me da gusto que le hayan ganado el campeonato a los gringos en la final, jaja! Saludos desde México.

Yep, he made the team specifically for such purposes. But scoring that game-winning run has to be too good to be true!

Yes that was Makihara, who also did a couple of years as the closer, so he knows how difficult it is😆

Praying for USA win, because USA winning will grow the game much more than Japan winning.

@@aljon5947 America will surely win. But Japan will not give up.let's have a good game.

​@@aljon5947what???😂😂

ok japan won😭😭

@@aljon5947 Thank you

I’m half American and half Japanese

@@specialk9999 nice to meet you brother! my name is dave born raised and still livin in beautiful island paradise okinawa japan

@@pigeonchatter4536 nice to meet you too. I live in the U.S. now. Lived in Tokyo for 13 years growing up. Okinawa is a very nice place! Went on vacation there a few times when I was a kid.

@@specialk9999 come and visit again anytime bro not sure when you were here but now it is a big time resort island kinda like hawaii

@@pigeonchatter4536 that’s cool it’s expanded! The last time I was in Okinawa was 1992, a very long time ago.