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00:00A jam-packed Tokyo Dome, full and buzzing for Shohei Otani.
00:08His numbers from last season with the Angels, another MVP caliber campaign as he finished runner-up.
00:18Strike three, swinging. A K to begin Otani Senshu's evening.
00:25Shohei's got now a one-two. Freezes Chang, second strikeout for Shohei.
00:33Utilizing both sides of the play, but here it is. Front door breaking ball.
00:38On the righty way. Pitches don't really encourage a whole lot, as you know, by pitching coaches.
00:44It's not practice often, but look at the reaction. A front hit flies open.
00:47Froze.
00:52Strike three, swinging. Back-to-back punches for Shohei Otani.
01:01Tipped into the glove, another strikeout.
01:070-2 pitch to Chen Chen. Called strike three. Fifth of the night for Shohei Otani.
01:15And it brings it in to the fourth inning. Four shutout innings on the mound tonight.
01:23Shot to left center field. Shohei Otani off the wall.
01:29Newt Barr scores. Kondo rounds third and heads home. Welcome home, Shohei Otani.
01:36There's not much more to add with what he does on an everyday basis.
01:41The threat that he is with the bat. Spoiling and just hammering good pitchers. Pitches like that one.
01:49Otani ropes a single into right.
01:54He reaches for the fourth time tonight. Shohei Otani is due up.
01:59First pitch. Roped into right field. Otani comes through. Japan's lead is four.
02:07Oh, Hokkaido. So many memories.
02:11Shohei, you know, such a great student of the game. You see him every time there's a pitching change.
02:17He goes out there and gets his information. Gets all whatever he needs in terms of patterns, pitches, tendencies.
02:26Otani. Hammered to right field. Down in front of the wall. And one hops off of it.
02:32Kondo will score. Otani with an RBI double. Japan leads 6-1 in the fourth.
02:39Otani-san back in a Samurai Japan uniform for the first time in a major international competition for more than six years.
02:48The 0-1 pitch. Taken high and deep to right field. Otani has blown the roof off the Tokyo Dome.
02:57Shohei Otani with a three-run blast in the first inning. 448 feet.
03:04Shohei Otani's second start here in the World Baseball Classic. First one against China. He was terrific.
03:10Threw a lot of strikes. Filled the zone against a very inexperienced team.
03:15His first strikeout of the tournament. Otani's first strikeout of the night.
03:19He strikes out swinging here against Otani and 1-0-2.
03:24He delivers the 1-2 and has his third punchout in two frames.
03:41Otani bunts it to the left side. Field goal.
03:45Otani bunts it to the left side. Fielded by Losor so the throw is wide and gets away.
03:53Kondo at third.
03:59He strikes out Dominic Fletcher.
04:04Nope. Some filth off the table for strike three. Back to back for Otani.
04:1193. Shohei's back up.
04:15Otani right field. Otani with a titanic swing in Tokyo.
04:22The Dodgers are teeing off on Togo in the third. The second home run of the inning.
04:28And now 4-0 L.A.
04:30You would call that in the States just kind of a cement mixture there.
04:34The pitch was even away but Shohei stayed on that thing.
04:37Stays close with that front side and just generates all kinds of power.
04:42And here comes Shohei. All the phones out. Trying to get their own perspective captured right here.
04:49There's an absolute take. Right center field. It is off the wall.
04:57To second goes Otani. To home goes Otani. It was a home run.
05:04And the question is without the fans would have it been a home run?
05:09After review, recall in the field stance. Home run.
05:13Yeah, like I said, an absolute take.