A look at the box score will tell you most of what happened in a baseball game, but not all. One such missing element is smart fielding even on routine plays. And one of the best players to make these smart plays is Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui.

Matsui is not only great at chasing down the ball. He has had an eerily accurate eye for bounces off the corner walls at Yankee Stadium. Whatever position he makes a catch in, his throw to the relay infielder is almost always on target. He seems to have this extra sense of exactly how the action on the bases is unfolding, and delivers the ball to exactly the right spot to minimize the runners' advances.

You won't see any of this in the box score. But it's one of those less-than-headline aspects that makes Matsui so much fun to watch, even if there isn't anything big going on.