You can play baseball as a flamethrowing Super Mario in this amazing Japanese video game

Super Mario may spend most of his time rescuing princesses from castles, but he's technically a plumber. And if AL Rookie of the Year Michael Fulmer's life is anything to go by, plumbers make pretty good baseball players.
You can put this theory to the test in "Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Heroes," the latest installment in Japan's popular Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball series. Mario makes a cameo and, as you can see in the trailer below, he's a pitcher who throws literal fire. And, like Shohei Ohtani, he's also a two-way player -- watch to the very end to see him hit a flaming baseball out of the park and into a moat filled with dolphins:

The game will be released on Dec. 15 … but only in Japan, so buy your plane tickets/sign up for language lessons now.