Relive the historic journey of Team USA as they dominated the 2017 World Baseball Classic to become champions! 🏆 From Marcus Stroman’s incredible pitching to Adam Jones’ iconic home run robbery, these are the top plays that led the U.S. to their first-ever WBC title.
In this video, we look back at the most clutch moments against powerhouses like Japan and Puerto Rico. Whether you're an MLB fan or a Team USA supporter, these highlights are a must-watch!
Key Players Featured:
Marcus Stroman (MVP)
Adam Jones
Giancarlo Stanton
Eric Hosmer
Timestamps:
0:00 - The Journey Begins
2:15 - Clutch Moments & Defense
5:30 - Semi-Final vs Japan
8:45 - Championship Final vs Puerto Rico
10:20 - The Final Out & Celebration
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Team USA Baseball, World Baseball Classic Highlights, 2017 WBC Champions, USA vs Puerto Rico Final, MLB Highlights, Marcus Stroman WBC, Adam Jones Catch, Baseball Greats, Team USA Best Plays, World Baseball Classic 2017.
In this video, we look back at the most clutch moments against powerhouses like Japan and Puerto Rico. Whether you're an MLB fan or a Team USA supporter, these highlights are a must-watch!
Key Players Featured:
Marcus Stroman (MVP)
Adam Jones
Giancarlo Stanton
Eric Hosmer
Timestamps:
0:00 - The Journey Begins
2:15 - Clutch Moments & Defense
5:30 - Semi-Final vs Japan
8:45 - Championship Final vs Puerto Rico
10:20 - The Final Out & Celebration
#TeamUSA #WBC #WorldBaseballClassic #BaseballHighlights #MLB #USA
Tags
Team USA Baseball, World Baseball Classic Highlights, 2017 WBC Champions, USA vs Puerto Rico Final, MLB Highlights, Marcus Stroman WBC, Adam Jones Catch, Baseball Greats, Team USA Best Plays, World Baseball Classic 2017.
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00:00This is his kind of park here
00:02in Phoenix.
00:03High fly ball right field well
00:05struck.
00:05That is well back back to the
00:07wall.
00:08She's got his kind of park
00:10indeed as the United States
00:11takes a one to nothing lead.
00:14He just keeps getting better
00:16each and every year.
00:18He said the key to the breakout
00:20year last year was the fact that
00:22he finally had a good April.
00:23Well guess what.
00:24He's off to a good start this
00:26year in March.
00:37The first pitch he gets a look
00:43at in the world baseball classic
00:45and he knocks it out of the yard.
00:49The USA on top of Mexico two to
00:52nothing.
00:54Little easier to see now why the
00:56Atlanta Braves and the United
00:57Rangers have always gone to the
00:58postseason 14 straight years they
01:01have been in the postseason and
01:03the biggest reason as with the
01:05New York Yankees Chipper Jones is
01:08the National League version to
01:09meet of Derrick Jeter.
01:12Swing and a high dude drive left
01:14center field way way back very deep
01:17high and gone.
01:18A grand slam for Veritek.
01:21A whole new ball game for Team
01:23USA.
01:24Amazing what one swing of the bat
01:26can do.
01:27Before this inning started we were
01:29worried about the mercy rule and the
01:31United States getting embarrassed.
01:34All of a sudden now at the base is
01:35loaded Jason Veritek.
01:38Everybody here is excited.
01:40I don't think there's anybody in
01:41Boston that's surprised.
01:433-2 to Lee is lifted to right field.
01:45Back goes Butcher way back when
01:46taking it.
01:47It's gone!
01:49Derrick Lee with a two run shot.
01:52This game isn't going to last long.
01:54And the U.S. leads it 4-0.
01:57Opposite field home run for Lee.
02:00Joe that's where our guests hit a
02:02few uh you get a few to scrape the
02:04wall here at the stadium haven't
02:06you?
02:06Not to mention a few out in the
02:08parking lot but hey give Derrick
02:09Lee credit he got a break watch
02:11he's right on the monitor right
02:12there that that ball is low and
02:13away just off the plate and you
02:16know the wind is blowing out here a
02:17little bit but he shot it out the
02:18way he had to he had to hit it.
02:21Well Ken Griffey Jr. charged a
02:24good shot to Ville and what a shot
02:25that is.
02:26That's why you wanted to make it
02:27happen with Jeter because of the
02:29wind blowing the way it is it
02:31wouldn't have mattered much with
02:32Ken Griffey Jr. but he got every
02:34bit of that and just like that
02:36there's seven up on the board and
02:39they are getting ever closer to
02:40the surrender rule and it's a 15
02:43run lead after five innings.
02:45Team USA after the embarrassment
02:47of the game against Team Canada
02:50has come out with a little more
02:52determination.
02:53I mean they were athletic and
02:55they were they were aggressive and
02:58they they they embraced the game
03:01but the reality was their their
03:03skills were just very limited and
03:05the tools to play the game were
03:07just not in place at that time.
03:09Any chance you can trade for this
03:10Griffey fellow?
03:12How about his son?
03:14I saw his son hanging out on the
03:15field before the game.
03:16Trey.
03:16Yeah I think he's in the dugout I
03:18think he was bat boy or ball boy.
03:20Speaking of Trey that is the second
03:21three run homer of the day struck
03:24by Ken Griffey.
03:25He told Jeff Francoorer in the taxi
03:28on the way to the ballpark he was
03:29going to go deep in the seventh and
03:31then he told the team as he went out
03:32there to hit he was going to.
03:33Swing it high fly ball very deep to
03:36right center field for Godotne
03:37away backing up turning around it
03:38sails it is gone and he's done it
03:40again.
03:42Chipper Jones gets the United States
03:44on the board with a solo homerun
03:45here in the second inning.
03:47Another launch for the Atlanta
03:49Braves star as he takes Uehara
03:52out of the ballpark.
03:54You want to know why the Atlanta
03:55Braves have been in the playoffs
03:56the last fourteen straight years
03:59you're looking at the number one
04:01reason he's been there for all of
04:03them he is there right now for
04:05Team USA.
04:06And this is a guy that just has
04:08suffered suffered from the
04:09stomach flu dropped about twenty
04:11pounds but this last week or so
04:13was showing great power.
04:15Well this is he just gets
04:16extension and it's something that
04:18we've seen for the last fifteen
04:20years with Chipper Jones and he
04:22has the sweetest swing from the
04:23left side.
04:24Well you have to give the pitcher
04:25credit for thinking Derek Lee
04:27might be swinging in this
04:28situation and might not just lay
04:30it over the plate.
04:30There's a swing that arrives
04:31shot well to left center field
04:33sailing back back back and gone.
04:35Derek Lee ties it with that one
04:38swing.
04:39It's three three in the sixth
04:41inning.
04:42His third home run in the world
04:43baseball classic.
04:45Well this time Lee gets it.
04:48The last pitch was away 3 0.
04:50He went after it.
04:52He went after it.
04:52This time Samisa tried to sneak one
04:54middle to the inner half of the
04:56plate.
04:56He didn't get it inside.
04:58Derek Lee pulled his hands inside
05:00the ball.
05:01Drove the ball over the wall.
05:02And this is something that
05:03Sanaharo was concerned about the
05:06power of the American ball club.
05:08He figured to counter that by
05:10having pitchers that had good
05:11control and wouldn't leave the
05:13ball over the plate.
05:14And you know what for all those
05:15critics that said this thing was
05:17going to be more like an all-star
05:18game.
05:18I wanted to take a look at Team
05:20USA's dugout when that ball went
05:22out of the park.
05:23You got Red Sox and Yankees
05:25hugging each other.
05:26You got Dodgers and Giants getting
05:28along.
05:29This thing is far from being an all-star
05:30game.
05:31This is a team and a country on
05:34both sides well represented.
05:36Well in this situation Lee's
05:37looking for a thing that's to
05:38drive the ball out of the
05:39ballpark.
05:40This pitch is down and in and for
05:43a right handed hitter that can
05:44be deadly because you just drop
05:46the head of the bat onto the
05:48ball and it will go a long way.
05:50They fired up Derek Lee as he
05:54rounded the bases.
05:56So you're talking about that
05:57dugout celebration and really
05:59came alive for the first time
06:00today.
06:01Everybody on the rail in each
06:03dugout on the first and third
06:04base sides.
06:063-3 tie bottom of the ninth
06:08bases loaded two down.
06:13Up the middle.
06:14That's going to sweep through
06:15a base hit and the ball game
06:17is over and the United States
06:19has defeated Japan in the
06:21ninth inning by final score of
06:23four to three.
06:27Alex Rodriguez with a game
06:28winning single that he muscles up
06:31the middle.
06:33Team USA defeats Japan for the
06:36three.
06:38And he got shaken up in the
06:39play although he stayed in for
06:41a while.
06:42High five on the right field
06:44line.
06:44This one might go.
06:45Song back into the corner.
06:47He's there at the wall and he
07:07had a chance to catch that ball
07:13because it was at the smaller
07:14part of the wall where he could
07:16have gone over.
07:17We don't know how far back it
07:19went but it wasn't where the
07:20wall is 16 17 feet.
07:22Watch and you'll see G man song
07:24going all the way back to the
07:25track and then he made contact
07:27with the fence.
07:29As he leaped up and missed it.
07:31Well it's almost when he jumps up
07:33he sticks to the fence.
07:35He didn't find the wall which is
07:37what outfielders hope to do get
07:39to the wall first and then make
07:41their attempt.
07:42Craig Griffey delighted.
07:44Little surprised I think that
07:46dad did it again.
07:48He'll slowly bring that right
07:50hand down the handle of the
07:52bat.
07:53One and two drives the ball in
07:55the air to right field sending
07:56stairs back and this one is up
07:59and over and gone.
08:00Tie game in Toronto.
08:03No stranger to the hitting
08:05background here at the Rogers
08:07Center.
08:08Uclus has done this a time or two
08:10before.
08:11He's got good power to all
08:12fields and it's not the way
08:14you'd probably teach hitting
08:16but it works very well for
08:17Uclus.
08:18As we look at Uclus' swing.
08:20Rather unorthodox but he's
08:22able to generate unbelievable
08:23bat speed.
08:24Delmonico looking on Team USA
08:26leading one to nothing and a man
08:29at second two down.
08:31That ball is ripped.
08:33Right field way back.
08:35And out of here.
08:37Home run Jimmy Rollins.
08:39The littlest guy on the field
08:41will touch them all.
08:43And the U.S. is on top three
08:46to nothing.
08:47The former MVP goes yard to
08:50right.
08:51Well that ball got out in a
08:52hurry too.
08:53High fastball.
08:54He jumped all over it and
08:56there was an awful lot of
08:57thunder.
08:57Watch this beautiful swing.
08:59Belt high fastball.
09:02Uclus with a high ride to deep
09:05left.
09:05Boca Chica gives it a token.
09:07Look that one is lost into the
09:09night.
09:11Wow.
09:12Three to one U.S.
09:13Well he pounded him in on a pitch
09:15that knocked him off the plate on
09:17the first pitch.
09:18Well the swing speaks for itself.
09:20He got all that.
09:21You know all of a sudden
09:22Harold looked like a backdoor
09:23cutter.
09:23You saw where Soto was setting
09:24up.
09:25But 2-0 got what he was looking
09:27for.
09:27That's perfect swing for Fenway
09:30Park.
09:30And that's hard to do.
09:32You have to really work on
09:33getting that kind of an arc on
09:34your swing and be able to
09:36perfect it.
09:37He's done that.
09:38The 2-1.
09:40And Wright lines it into the
09:41right field corner.
09:43The U.S.
09:44wins it.
09:49David Wright with a walk off
09:52knock.
09:53And Team USA moves on to the
09:56semis.
09:57Santa Maria.
09:59And they're.
10:01Oh boy.
10:03Excitement emotion.
10:04There it is right there.
10:20Five three in the ninth.
10:23And Team USA rallies to win in
10:28Miami.
10:30The next one two.
10:32Swing and a drive well struck
10:33to the left.
10:34That one's got a chance.
10:35And that one is.
10:37Gone.
10:42International salami for David
10:45Wright.
10:47David Wright in his big league
10:49career is in on the four
10:51Major League Grants lands.
10:54Runners go.
10:55And Jones sends it into the
10:57left center field gap.
10:58That's going to score a pair.
11:07That one's going to score a pair.
11:08Team USA with its first lead of
11:10the ball game.
11:16The base hit for Joe Mauer.
11:18Oh is that pretty.
11:19That's going to roll a bit.
11:20Pagan's got to go get it.
11:22Braun's being waved around.
11:24The throw home from the B-list is
11:26too late.
11:27One nothing U.S.
11:34Wright sends a drive out to
11:35right center field.
11:36Rios and Pagan are there.
11:38And Angel Pagan can't make the
11:39catch.
11:40And Captain America's catched in
11:42with the bases loaded again.
11:46Five runs batted in for David
11:48Wright this evening.
11:49Ten for the tournament.
11:50But.
11:50Adam Jones behind in the count
11:520 and 2.
11:52Andrew Miller is up and ready.
11:54Hoping he won't be needed.
11:57And he won't be needed.
12:00Adam Jones delivers.
12:02And the U.S. locks it off to
12:04open pool play in Miami.
12:07The U.S. with a winner in
12:09their first matchup in pool C.
12:12Keeps the inning alive and puts
12:14a man aboard in front of the
12:15one of the big power threats in
12:18the lineup.
12:18Giancarlo Stanton.
12:22Stanton to left.
12:25Good night now.
12:28There's the big fella.
12:30The end of the night for
12:31Irvin Santana.
12:33The U.S. has grabbed its first
12:35lead of the night.
12:36Well they're all big innings but
12:37this part of the lineup pretty
12:39strong for the Dominican.
12:41Clipper looking for a clean
12:42inning here in the seventh.
12:45Hit well at the right center
12:46field.
12:47Jones still on the move running
12:49out of room.
12:50And he makes the ball.
12:51He makes the ball.
12:54He makes the ball.
12:58The local guy saves the day.
13:01Manny knows he's got it.
13:03This ball's crushed.
13:04But in the night air and some
13:07good fans cooperating by letting
13:09him get up there and get it.
13:11Wow.
13:11Most of the fans.
13:13That was awesome.
13:15And Baltimore teammates tip their
13:17caps to one another.
13:18Tyler Clipper just says oh my
13:20God.
13:23McCutchey in the left center field.
13:25That's going to do some damage.
13:28Yellich scores.
13:29Cosmer right behind him.
13:32And cuts comes through.
13:35On the ground for Crawford.
13:39And Team USA is headed to Los
13:41Angeles.
13:43They've done it.
13:44The Americans have slayed the
13:46giant.
13:46Japan brings the infield in
13:48second and third with one gone.
13:51Shattered bat.
13:52But sooner has trouble with it.
13:54The run scores.
13:56That little bobble right there
13:57from an awfully good infield
13:59and defensive team has given
14:01the USA the lead.
14:03But tonight it's the United States
14:05moving on to the finals.
14:08Team USA going farther than they
14:11ever have in World Baseball
14:13Classic history.
14:15Jim Leland smiling for the first
14:17time in two weeks.
14:18And the Americans have a date
14:20tomorrow with Puerto Rico.
14:22It all boils down to this matchup
14:24tonight.
14:25After two weeks of tournament
14:26play.
14:27It's the U.S. and Puerto Rico
14:29vying for the title of World
14:31Baseball Classic champion.
14:33Kinsler grounded out to open the
14:35ball game.
14:36Kinsler with a swing and a drive
14:38well hit to center field.
14:39Hernandez is back.
14:41And it's gone.
14:44Well there's some of the early
14:45offense the U.S. was looking
14:47for.
14:48And finally a sinker that's up.
14:50He has not thrown many sinkers
14:52up.
14:52But this one is up over the plate
14:54and Kinsler does not miss it.
14:57And Hernandez swings and misses.
15:00Marcus Stroman has worked to the
15:02minimum through three.
15:04Marcus Stroman is in post season
15:06mode tonight.
15:07His longest no hit bid in his big
15:09league career has been six
15:10innings.
15:11two hits.
15:13Soft contact to second.
15:15Two quick outs.
15:17Stroman has matched the longest no
15:19hit bid in the tournament.
15:22Chopper to shortstop.
15:23Another grand ball by no hits
15:25through six for Marcus Stroman
15:27tonight.
15:28Marcus Stroman has been brilliant
15:30tonight.
15:31Top of the seventh inning he has
15:32not allowed a base hit.
15:35The guy strokes an extra base hit
15:37into the left field corner.
15:38Something for Puerto Rico fans
15:40to finally get excited about.
15:42First base hit of the night.
15:44And that's going to be all for
15:45Stroman.
15:46What a performance.
15:47Stroman departs with a seven
15:49nothing lead.
15:50Took a no hitter into the
15:51seventh and leads to a
15:53hero's exit.
15:54One out left.
15:55And a crowd of over fifty one
15:57thousand strong hasn't finned a
16:00bit.
16:00Carlos Correa represents the last
16:03out tonight.
16:04From Robertson's ground at a
16:06third base.
16:07Arenado's got it.
16:08The US has a WBC title.
16:12The Americans had never even
16:14gotten to the final game
16:15before.
16:16Tonight they took on a team that
16:18had lost a team that led the
16:20tournament in every major
16:21offensive category.
16:23And not only did the US win
16:24tonight.
16:25They won in shutout fashion.
16:27Bases are loaded nobody out.
16:29It's not their biggest moment
16:30for USA where they can
16:31capitalize right here.
16:320-2.
16:33Turner to left field.
16:35And deep.
16:36Peralta back.
16:37It is gone.
16:47USA.
16:50What a swing.
16:52What a moment for Turner.
17:06Turner.
17:07Turner.
17:09To the World Baseball Classic
17:11Grand Slam.
17:12Gotta throw him a change up here.
17:15Oh.
17:16What a mistake.
17:18What a moment for Mr. Turner.
17:22Arthur also talked about a big homer.
17:24Go meet him at home plate.
17:25Well, they sure did that.
17:28Look at that.
17:29Got the kid waiting for you with a big hug.
17:32And King Griffey Jr.
17:34Now Trey Turner.
17:35Turner having another big game.
17:37Two for three.
17:39Turner to left field.
17:40Did he do it again?
17:42Yes, he did.
17:43It's gone.
17:44Trey Turner.
17:46Trey Jabu.
17:47We talked about Goldschmidt being America's first baseman.
17:52Oh, Mr. Trey Turner's America's shortstop.
17:55Wow.
17:57What a swing.
17:58Boy, he is locked.
18:00And the two biggest stars in the world are going to lead their teams on the field.
18:05Mike Trout and Team USA.
18:08Shohei Otani and Team Japan.
18:12The eyes of the world on not just those two players,
18:15but the two tremendous teams who are minutes away from going head-to-head
18:21with a World Baseball Classic Championship on the line.
18:25It has been such a great tournament.
18:27Goosebumps here on the field.
18:29Simply goosebumps is the reaction.
18:32I'm looking around this beautiful ballpark.
18:34Everyone standing in awe, really, of these two great teams
18:39who have had this journey over weeks to get here
18:42and really months when you consider the journey to put these rosters together.
18:47We have now played 47 games in this World Baseball Classic,
18:51the most watched tournament in the history of this event,
18:55and it's culminated with two of the great baseball powers in the world
18:59meeting at a final for the very first time.
19:02Here we go.
19:03Trey Turner has been awesome the last two games.
19:06Had the home run that Team USA will never forget.
19:10Two-one pitch.
19:10Turner hits another one down the left field line.
19:13He's done it again.
19:14It's gone!
19:17America's shortstop, Trey Turner.
19:20We talked about the wave.
19:22He's riding a big wave.
19:24Trying to throw that cheese inside.
19:27Trey Turner was absolutely ready for it.
19:30What a week for Trey Turner.
19:32Tenth pitch of the at-bat.
19:33Here it comes.
19:34Schwarber.
19:35Tries it to deep right field.
19:37It is gone into the second deck.
19:40It's a one-run game.
19:42What an at-bat.
19:43And the longer the at-bat, the more hope for Team USA.
19:47Schwarber cuts the lead.
19:49What a swing.
19:50What an at-bat.
19:51He got the splitter.
19:52He was set up for the splitter.
19:54The splitter was up.
19:55And Schwarber did not miss it.
19:57What an at-bat.
19:58What a swing.
19:59What a change of possibly momentum.