Luis Urias of the Milwaukee Brewers and current member of Team Mexico in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, hit perhaps the biggest home run of his career during the fourth inning of Mexico and Japans semifinal game. With two runners on base and two outs, Luis Urias launched a three run home run off Japan phenom Roki Sasaki.
Luis Urias hits a three run home run off Japan phenom Roki Sasaki in World Baseball Classic semifinal game.
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For Luis Urias, this was his first home run of the World Baseball Classic and it could not have come at a better time. He also was the player who hit the go-ahead RBI in the quarterfinal game against Team Puerto Rico to cap off an epic comeback. It is safe to say that he has had an incredible past few baseball games for Team Mexico.
The pitcher on the mound, Roki Sasaki, is a 21 year old star in Japan. He threw a 19 strikeout perfect game last year that included 13 consecutive punch outs. For Urias to hit this home run against a pitcher who consistently throws above 100 MPH and has a wipe out split finger change up is impressive.
List of people on the planet with HRs off Roki Sasaki and Jacob deGrom:
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The winner of Mexico and Japan will face Team USA in the championship game on Tuesday night. Team USA is the defending champ.
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