Dodgers vs. Cubs full Tokyo Series game highlights from 3/18/25
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00:00We're just about ready for first
00:01pitch the Dodgers and the Cubs
00:03starting the twenty twenty five
00:05season in grand fashion here at
00:07the Tokyo Dome in front of a
00:08sellout crowd.
00:10It was an American professor
00:11that brought the game to Japan
00:14one hundred and fifty years ago
00:15and now Japan has given back so
00:18much.
00:18Eighty two players you mentioned
00:19have come from Japan to the big
00:20leagues 13 currently on big
00:23league rosters five in this
00:24series including Ohtani and what
00:27a display this is what a scene
00:29this is for baseball in Japan
00:31and across the globe.
00:32He's a rookie last year.
00:34Sparkling first impression right
00:35away with his personality and
00:37then with his pitching went 15
00:39and three with a 2 9 1 much less
00:42heralded than Yamamoto coming
00:43over signed the four year
00:44contract but outperformed him
00:46and outperformed just about
00:47every rookie in the National
00:49League finished top five and
00:51Cy Young voting in the opening
00:53day starter here in his second
00:54year.
00:55Shohei Ohtani who has been at
00:57Ohtani who has been at the
00:58center of attention all week
01:01ready to face show team and
01:02Naga to get this game started on
01:05this one one pitch Ohtani hits a
01:08hard ground ball a second for
01:09John Birdie.
01:11There's the first out Tommy
01:13Edmonds which hit her batting
01:14right handed last year's NLCS
01:16MVP in the air but also in the
01:20infield Bush to a way to up to
01:23down in this first inning for
01:25Naga in an 0 2 hole.
01:27Naga gets him swinging and
01:30promptly one two three on nine
01:32pitches to get his season
01:33started.
01:34Here is the 26 year old from
01:36Buzan Japan Yoshinobu Yamamoto
01:39and his second season with the
01:40Dodgers the opening day starter
01:42back in his home country.
01:44He's home with a payoff and Hap
01:46takes outside to start this game
01:48with a walk.
01:49Good hand for Seah Suzuki out of
01:51our Akawa Japan in the
01:54southeastern part of Tokyo nine
01:56pro seasons in Japan perennial
01:59All-Star.
02:00He was the cleanup man for the
02:01national team breaks his bat a
02:02little teardrop up the middle
02:04that's caught by Miguel Rojas
02:06saw him off right there for the
02:08first out.
02:08Here's Kyle Tucker comes big
02:10addition this offseason takes a
02:12sting out of it bounce back to
02:14Yamamoto thought about going to
02:15second settles for the out at
02:17first to gone and happened to
02:19scoring position.
02:20Good job by Yamamoto just to
02:21take the easy out not trying to
02:23great play early on in the ball
02:25game you just trying to get out.
02:27He's got two of them in this
02:28first inning and now faces the
02:30former Dodger Michael Bush.
02:33A fastball is lifted to center
02:35field Randy Paz puts it away and
02:38Yamamoto pitches around the
02:39leadoff walk after an inning in
02:41Tokyo.
02:42No score and even Naga has walked
02:44back to back Dodgers to start
02:46the top of the second inning.
02:48Will Smith down the second two
02:50on nobody out for Kike Hernandez
02:53popped up Michael Bush one away
02:56with the shortest style of
02:58pitching you can see a lot of
02:59balls in the air much more of a
03:00fly ball type pitcher than a
03:02ground ball pitcher popped up
03:03towards third Matt Shaw makes
03:07the catch.
03:08Now Miguel Rojas wearing his new
03:09number seventy two set in the
03:11air to left in half calls off
03:14Dan's B Swanson makes the catch
03:15and show to him and Naga gets
03:17out of the nothing nothing.
03:19Let's go to the bottom of the
03:19second.
03:21Comes to a pretty beefy
03:22schedule the first month of the
03:23season they get through April at
03:25five hundred.
03:26I think it would be pretty good
03:29news.
03:30Dan's B hits it up the middle
03:32and it's in the center field for
03:33a base hit first hit for the
03:35Cubs in twenty twenty five.
03:37It's courtesy of Dan's B Swanson
03:38here in the second.
03:40Here's P.C.A. Yamamoto's pitch
03:42here's a ground ball hit to the
03:43right side.
03:44Edmund has it back hands flips
03:45on the first quickly so the Cubs
03:47have had a runner in scoring
03:48position in both innings so far.
03:50Yamamoto will try to pitch
03:51around it again.
03:52It's the young catcher from
03:53Panama Miguel Amaya stands in.
03:56That's it.
03:57Well right center field into the
03:58gap.
03:59He's back.
04:00He can't make the catch.
04:01Little one hopped the wall.
04:03Dan's B scores Amaya at a
04:05second Cubs lead one to nothing
04:07here in the second tries to beat
04:09him with a fastball upstairs.
04:10It's a real nice powerful swing
04:12head right on it gets good
04:13extension.
04:14Man it's been awesome seeing
04:16Otani here in Japan.
04:18You know what kind of impact
04:19he's got across the globe.
04:21This has got to be a split right
04:22here.
04:23Wow.
04:24Right from the second I wouldn't
04:26throw that to him.
04:27I think that was the slider.
04:28I mean that was a hard hit line
04:30drive almost 100 miles an hour
04:32off the bat.
04:33And even Naga who we mentioned
04:34had the best strikeout to walk
04:35ratio in the National League
04:37last year has a new career high
04:39four walks over the first three
04:41plus innings.
04:42Now they've leaned on him a
04:43little bit head back to back
04:44walks to open the second and
04:46then went one two three and put
04:47the pressure on again here in
04:49the fourth.
04:49Hernandez coming to the plate
04:50that's hit in the air to center
04:51field.
04:52He's back.
04:54He's at the warning track and he
04:55makes the catch.
04:57Throwing a third is not a title
04:58bring runners at the corners
04:59with two outs.
05:00Knifes is one in the shadow left
05:02field and for the second time in
05:03the first four innings the
05:04Dodgers let him and I go off of
05:06the hook.
05:07He pitches around a pair of
05:08walks no hits through four
05:10innings for L.A.
05:11Throwing a ball into a brick
05:12wall and he did it so often that
05:13he carved a little divot into
05:15the brick wall as the years went
05:16on.
05:17Four scoreless innings didn't
05:18give up a hit.
05:19Pajas takes the walk and a man
05:21aboard for Ohtani.
05:23They haven't had hits but they've
05:24had five walks so far.
05:26No for two against Semenaga now
05:29sets his sights on Brown scorched
05:31to the right side and it's so
05:32tiny that's provided the first
05:34hit for the Dodgers.
05:35Pajas goes first to third and he
05:38delivers for these fans as he
05:40always does.
05:41One hundred seven off a Dodger
05:43hit.
05:44He's going to go to third and he
05:45one hundred seven off of the
05:47bat to show he Ohtani now third
05:49time in the last four innings
05:51the Dodgers have had two runners
05:52aboard.
05:53I'll try to take advantage with
05:54Tommy Edmonds coming up smacks
05:57one left side diving try but
05:59it's down for a hit throw is
06:01late and the game is tied.
06:04Tommy Edmonds brings in Andy
06:06Pajas with a base hit to left
06:07field.
06:08Well they go four plus innings
06:10without a hit and then get two
06:12of them on back to back pitches.
06:14Hernandez chops one to third
06:16Shaw will go to second for one
06:18throw to first is high and it
06:20allows the Dodgers to take the
06:21lead.
06:23Ohtani is in the score on a
06:24throwing error and it's two to
06:26one Los Angeles throw got out of
06:29play so Hernandez will get
06:30second.
06:31John Birdie in his first game
06:32with the Cubs has turned this
06:34game with a throwing error digs
06:36this one out.
06:37He's got a base hit to left
06:38center that will bring home
06:39Hernandez three to one Dodgers
06:43Joe Smith knocks in his first
06:44run of the year.
06:46Dodgers through the first four
06:47innings had a total four base
06:49runners all those were on walks
06:51the fifth inning for base
06:53runners three hits three runs
06:55two outs on two pitches.
06:57Yamamoto saying let me do
06:58something not even breaking a
07:00sweat in this inning.
07:02And a one two three fifth inning
07:03pinpoint with the fastball from
07:05Yoshinobu Yamamoto Brown playing
07:08with fire here three and on the
07:10nine hitter with Ohtani waiting
07:11on deck.
07:12Yeah he did it last time too.
07:14You know he this is a guy that
07:16you just got to go right after
07:18and I'm sure he's trying to do
07:19it.
07:20But man fall behind and
07:21potentially walk him again for
07:23the second time and not even
07:24really been close.
07:26There's a four pitch walk to
07:27Paez and you've got to figure
07:29that that presence on deck that
07:32was looming like a defensive
07:33back bearing down on a receiver
07:35coming over the middle you sense
07:36him coming.
07:37I was as if Brown sensed Ohtani
07:39his presence and now he's got to
07:41get back with him two on two
07:42out.
07:45Couldn't lay off and Brown after
07:47the four pitch walk to Paez
07:49delivers a three pitch strike
07:50out to Ohtani.
07:53Oh show Ohtani so hot right now
07:56everywhere in every form
07:58including in the batter's box to
08:00lead off the down the line his
08:03second hit of the ball game.
08:05This one goes to the wall Ohtani
08:08starts the ninth with a double
08:11second hit of this ball game and
08:12his second one clocked at one
08:14hundred seven miles per hour.
08:17Just stays on that pitch doesn't
08:19get out over his front foot but
08:21keeps the bat going through the
08:23zone.
08:24You know it just looks so
08:25gracious and just.
08:27Tommy Edmonds moves him up here.
08:29He's a third for Tosca
08:30Hernandez.
08:32Spaceship to left field for
08:33Hernandez to score Ohtani
08:35Ohtani from an early age that
08:36was taught to be free to show
08:39his emotions be free to have fun
08:41and this is a game he loved it
08:43as a kid he was encouraged as a
08:44kid to feel free to show that
08:46feel free to enjoy it and
08:47nothing wrong with that.
08:49So that smile that you see with
08:51him on base there that you
08:52pointed out E.K. that was
08:54fostered and the Dodger debut
08:56coming here to try and finish
08:57this game off it's Tanner Scott
08:59who led the National League last
09:01year with a one seven four E.R.A.
09:03and signed the top free agent
09:05deal for any reliever this off
09:07season a four year contract to
09:08join the Dodgers.
09:11For the Cubs in the nine Tucker
09:12Bush and Shaw that's three four
09:14and five do up Tucker swings at
09:17the first pitch slashes a line
09:19drive the left of Conforto
09:20slides on to catch or delivers
09:22to two to Turner.
09:25Fly ball center field Pahez into
09:27the gap two up and two down in
09:30the ninth the Cubs now 0 for
09:32their last 20 with seven keys
09:34back to the start of the third
09:36inning 0 2 to Shaw swing and a
09:38miss that does it.
09:40Dodgers win on opening day in
09:42Japan four to one the final
09:44score the offense four runs the
09:47pitching dominant the five
09:49innings from Yamamoto and then
09:51the bullpen for no hit innings
09:53just one base runner against
09:54four different pitchers and the
09:57champions start the repeat path
10:00with a win over the Cubs.