The ULTIMATE Nori Aoki World Baseball Classic highlight reel! 🇯🇵

Here's a left fielder down or a cheek I'll be the left fielder when two for four against China and two of their five hitters I hope he's the lead at first held on by Leslie Anderson. Here he goes pitches low and the ball is dropped by Pestano the catcher for a stolen base. Hey he's at second base looked in quickly but there's all based on the inexperience in what they have seen so far from the moves of Chapman I like kick that's going to score a run the single by Aoki Ichiro comes home to score it's to nothing Japan with runners at first and third and the guy they wanted at the plate was at the plate clutch hitter Aoki puts the ball in play it doesn't take a whole lot. He's dropping it in front of the outfielder he capitalized he piled on the plate covered his balance is way off but the bat still in the strike zone. Maya has made two relief appearances for Cuba and ending in two thirds scoreless in the opener against Japan against the team he is facing here tonight he walked one and struck out two in that relief appearance to two delivery on the way and that one to the gap towards right center field. So Pete is coming will not have a play and Aoki is on with a two out single here in the first boy that was a reflection of Sunday wasn't it. Look at this reach out. He got things started against all those Chapman not with the best swing but what matters is it's a knock no matter where paper anyway you put it it's a base hit. Now it's three to fastball it is and this ball is through for a base hit. So Aoki is on with his seventh hit and 20 at bats here in the classic with one away. Boy he's going to want to see more of team Cuba on the mound. He continues to be the toughest guy to get out. So now you know there's a situation in which he's two for two in and Aoki lines it up the middle that's going to be a base hit says plate is coming the runners coming home. Here's the throw and in with a hand touch. Nice play by Akiyama he scores the run it is a three nothing lead and an RBI he gets it and Japan takes advantage he will more get everything started with his good eye and great instinctive base runner and to me who has become the toughest out in this lineup. He hits everything hits it hard and very consistently to the big part of the field. Wonderful slide. Sato and moved up trying to cut that line down couldn't do it. Run scores celebration RBI three three for three. OK. You get six out of a starter like you did with the sentence and can pay you. But then from there on you're using four guys. Yeah. The six standing up as opposed to what you have seen Japan do in this game. That's going to be a base hit. I don't get a run in. H.R.O. will score RBI single OK gets his fourth hit and second RBI of this game and a five nothing lead for Japan and it is what they have been expecting for a long time. When each year old gets something going better things happen. They said RBI is seventh run battered into the classic intro scores and it is a six to Japan lead. It is so much easier when each year gets on base to really disrupt the timing of the defense. We already saw confusion by them playing back. We saw the pitcher with each year at their base throwing from the wind up though each row crosses for the first time in the ballgame with Japan's sixth run runner on at first only one away. Valentin has it thrown a second it's the six double the Japanese team has hit in this tournament and OK gets a fastball out over the plate. He turns this ball a chance to get out of the ballpark but it hits high on the wall and right. He's able to get to second base with this double Vladimir Valentin plays it very well but he's got no shot at Aoki who runs well. I think stop Bogarts will hold it. That saved the run. What great reactions by Xander Bogarts who plays shortstop for the Red Sox. He clearly saves a run that ball was headed down the left field line clearly and RBI base hit for sure. Pops up looks at the runner and decides he has no chance at Aoki. But Aoki guides this down the third base line and Bogarts saves a run for Vandiver for the time being so that they would be available later in this round. That ball is spanked to center field Aoki. Aoki doesn't play center field very just twenty eight starts but he makes a terrific read here broke immediately and has to reach high over his head to make a catch running away from the infield. Now the two to fastball little loop or left field charging Aoki tagging his Bogarts. He will stop. Just not deep enough to take a chance. Aoki moved from right to left at the start of this inning. Ball was lined right Adam Bogarts immediately went back to tag but because it was so sharply hit right at the left fielder he couldn't take a chance. Bogarts is tagging Aoki has his momentum going toward the plate and throws a one hop strike to Kobayashi he's out by 20 feet if he keeps running another reason you can't chance it. Well that just continues the theme here dribblers fielders choices and hit by pitches. Leiter the left he has a hit in the gap it goes and it rolls to the wall Aoki will be easy to check in on this summer he'll be with the Houston Astros stays on this ball it's away from him and watch how he extends through the zone and drives it to the alley all the way to the wall in left center Aoki with his third double of the classic.