United States vs. Venezuela Game Highlights | 2023 World Baseball Classic

What's very very rare when you get this many great players on the field at the same time. We're going to have a show tonight here in Miami from Lone Depot Park in Miami Florida. Quarterfinal matchup it's the United States and Venezuela. Our team Perez coming off a great year in the big leagues and a good performance against the Dominican Republic. A great year in twenty twenty two. But tonight one of his biggest starts of his career Allen hit off hit for Mookie Betts team USA's lineup has so many big names none bigger than this guy Mike Trout first pitch swinging a little pop up shallow center field Acuna hustling in and nobody's going to get there. Betts is going to try for third the throw hits Mookie and rolls away and that will allow Trout to go to second and the ball kicked into the dugout out of play and Mookie can come home to score the first run of the game on a base running right there. Talk about putting pressure on the defense. He certainly did that understanding. Acuna has a really good arm. Acuna was going to go all out to run in. Nobody out runner at third. He hits a U.S.A. Sondheim there did a nice job cutting it off but in the scores Mike Trout and it's to nothing. I'm going to talk about twenty twenty two National League MVP taking a professional at bat. Now we've seen three professional at bats gets that change up. I think he just saw it too many times there. Arenado Goldschmidt around second. He's going for third and still nobody out first and third with two runs in Kyle Tucker with the infield and punches one through. Arenado is going for third now Tucker behind him to second the tag he's safe. I'll tell you they thought he got him. It's three nothing as Goldschmidt scored. I think he got off the base right there. I think he's out. He's out. Team USA has come to play. They've knocked the starter out of the game with one out in the top of the first inning. Anderson comes in and he'll catch it. The team USA may jump ahead three nothing. We talk about Lance Lane his twenty twenty two year with the White Sox the area three nine nine hundred twenty four strikeouts though. I just think for me when you look at Lance Lane he's an old school type pitcher. But you see he's what you get. He's going to trust this stuff. First pitch maybe just an announcement that this game is not anywhere close to being. Oh absolutely not. Luis Arias playing in what is now his home ballpark only two hits in first round play. He's got really good numbers against Lance Lane eight for twenty three. Up in the zone. All you got to do is touch it. Oh it was gone as soon as he hit it. What a moment. There was a lot going on in the first inning flips that one down the left field line and it's going to fall. He said Peralta kicked it up against the sidewall. J.T. real Muto in the second with a lead off double. That's the third hit for Team USA where they have not hit the ball very hard but they found the spot. Chase that's ball for he bets first pitch swing ground ball to short Jimenez to second one out to beta first got a double play and on to they got flipped up and landed hard on the infield dirt. Trey Turner who came in with a hard slide checking on him excellent turn to the double play. Nothing malicious about it. Barkley slide. He was actually trying to stop Teaming on teammate who had the last left line drive down the right field line. Santander is not going to get there up against the wall. Kyle Tucker against his teammate with a two out double now two for two in tonight's game and he'll give you the salute. Tucker at second two down the one one on the ground the third Suarez has it the long throw. Got it. Garcia works around that two out double won't necessarily go back to back fastballs. I'm known for that. Got to be careful here though. It's very hard and it goes by Alvarez. That's not an easy play that far out of the outfield off the bat one hundred and fourteen miles an hour. That one is another softly hit ball but Jimenez made the throw to second and Altuve couldn't come up with it after Jimenez did a great job getting to the ball and then made a terrific throw across his body. It got by Altuve and Team USA is set up beautifully now with second and third and nobody out on the ground and diving Jimenez has it. You've got to get up quickly and he throws out the speedy trade Turner. What a play. That's two good plays now for Jimenez. We know about the gold glove that he won with the Guardians Luis Garcia to that's to centerfield. There'll be plenty deep enough to get a run home. Acuna is there to make the catch tagging from third Kyle Schwarzer. He will score and it's four to two USA another two to here comes trout lines one to third caught by Suarez. Sometimes you do your job as a hitter and you still make it out. One run for Team USA four to two. This is a good mound visit. Andy Pettitte and Lance Lynch calm him down a little bit wanting to tell him hey you got to be careful with one of their hotter and hotter hitters just because he's hitting down in that order doesn't mean he's one of their top guys. Three to Suarez strikes out swinging. He dug deep for that one. And Lance Lynn one hit no runs for Venezuela. He got three four five for Team USA line drive left field Peralta lays out and makes a catch. What a play. He hit the turf hard. He sure did. It was an all out effort right there. What a fine play. Tucker's two for two so far he plants that one down the right field line toward the corner. It is gone home run. We tell who has the last laugh for the teammates. Mr. Tucker they couldn't have come in a more special and important moment. Cut connected he is in two hand finish all vintage Tucker right there. It's the bullpen's turn for Team USA and the state's leading five to two and a thirty seven year old right hander going to face the easier part of this lineup. Three one that is nowhere close ball for that's the last thing that Mark DeRosa wanted to see a lead off walk a little check swing pop up behind the mound charging in and a total excuse me hit Venezuela will take it way outside and it goes to the backstop. Now you've moved the runners now to they can go to work one to that. Nobody wants to see that Daniel Barrett right now is having a really really hard time. Yikes Altuve he's coming out of the game and I think it's his hands on top of their bases loaded and that one goes to the backstop. Everybody will move up a run in now just no idea where the ball is going. It looks like he's got the yips. I mean he can't throw a strike right now. Two walks a hit batter a very wild pitch and now Daniel Barrett is coming out. The lead for Team USA is definitely on the line. Arise Anderson the throw to second to get the out there. What a play. A run comes in. It's a one run game but that could have been so much worse for Team USA. Salvi Perez tying run a third one out with the lead still at five to four. That one is live and scrambled to get back in the second Salvi Perez. It's five to five Valencia Venezuela your leader your Capitán Sandoval Perez Acuna to center field. Trout on track to make the catch. Arise will tag. He'll come in to score. Two outs below the bullseye for the left handed hitter the shortstop Jimenez and he hits one the other way or not a lot of play stands up and he got him. Go Glover for a reason I'm glad him Glover for another reason. What an absolute play by Nolan Arnado. And this is a guy Nolan Arnado who loves to hit the fastball. What a play by Arnado. Wide drive left center field it was one or two and maybe harder coming off the bat Goldschmidt speeding around toward third Acuna cut it off. The lead is on the line out of the bullpen Jose Kihata three to Tucker Kihata saves the lead for Venezuela for now. Now Luis Arise has been in the middle of just about everything where he looks hitterish doesn't he. He does. He hammers that one down. If it's fair it's gone. Venezuela Luis Arise is here and on top of it a bad flip for the ages. Talk about a no doubt hitter can't afford a walk with your Kihata three to it is inside ball for he did walk in Alonzo to shallow right Santander. Nobody's going to get to Alonzo taking his first hit of the tournament two on nobody out. Bases are loaded with nobody out to run game. You know Bracho against Trey Turner Turner to left field. Got to throw him a change up here. Oh what a mistake. Got the kid waiting for you with a big hug. And Ken Griffey Jr. he's on cloud nine. He might have zoned out there. Oh absolutely. Acuna 0 4 2 does have a sac fly and a line out. He's had good swings tonight. That one is lying to left field and straight over the head of Tucker. Blakey for second in there with a head first slide. He struck him out with a change up his one to Torres strikes out on the fastball Torres line drive right center field. Mookie Betts is going to get there and make the catch hard hit ball. But it's an out. We go to the ninth. It's nine to seven. Ryan Presley and the United States one out away from the semifinals Santander a pop up Arnotto sprinting in Presley coming over to be our not. And the United States is on to the semifinals a team that has won a World Baseball Classic championship but may never have had a more dramatic single win in this tournament than tonight. Coming from behind Trey Turner's eighth inning Grand Slam the swing that turned this game around.