Tonight, Shohei Ohtani:
⚾️ hit a baseball 114.0 MPH
⚾️ threw a baseball 101.6 MPH
⚾️ ran to first in 4.16 seconds
If that sounds completely insane, that's because it is.
Last night, Mike Trout homered and Shohei Ohtani doubled and singled but none of the other Los Angeles Angels had any hits at all and the Angels lost to the Blue Jays, 4-3.
Shohei Ohtani struck out 10 Oakland A's tonight and allowed 0 runs. It wasn't enough for a win because the Angels gave up the lead after he stopped pitching.
Mike Trout had a pair of home runs, a single, and a sacrifice fly to drive in 5 runs and Shohei Ohtani had three singles and two stolen bases as the Brewers defeated the Angels, 7-5.
About ten years ago, MLB tested out the idea of allowing each team to pick one time in each game where a batter could swing an invisible bat and hit a home run.
Some people loved it but most thought it was really stupid.
Shohei Ohtani has now hit 30+ homers in 3 straight seasons and struck out a total of 502 batters while doing it. 😮
Babe Ruth never once struck out more than 3 batters in a season that he hit 30+ homers. No, seriously.
Stop saying "since Babe Ruth". Shohei is one of a kind.
Shohei Ohtani may soon pitch left-handed in MLB games to certain batters. 😮
They're waiting for delivery of a special six-fingered glove so he can quickly switch hands without violating the pitch clock rules.
No limits to what this guy can do. It's insane!
Shohei Ohtani was 1-for-7 striking out twice and Mike Trout got yanked from the game after just four innings as the Los Angeles Angels defeated the Colorado Rockies, 25-1.
Shohei Ohtani pitched 4 scoreless innings and struck out 4 batters and singled and walked twice and stole a base and scored a game-tying run from second on a single and hit a home run to put his team up by two runs as the Los Angeles Angels lost to the Seattle Mariners, 5-3.
Bartolo Colón swung at 610 pitches during his big league career and his helmet stayed on for only 27 of them. It's a MLB record that will never be broken.
no one in mlb history had thrown a complete game in one game of a doubleheader and homered in the other game
shohei ohtani threw a 1-hitter inthe first game today and has already hit 2 home runs in the second game
this is crazy
Shohei Ohtani went 3-for-3 with 2 home runs and struck out 10 batters while allowing only 1 run as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Chicago White Sox, 4-2.
Shohei Ohtani fell just a triple short of hitting for the cycle to push his OPS over 1.000 and hit back-to-back home runs with Mike Trout for the 9th time as the Los Angeles Angels lost to the last place Colorado Rockies, 7-4.
The stuff that doesn't show up in the box score...
This throw attempting to catch Christian Yelich stealing second base sails into center field but Francisco Lindor convinces Yelich that he has the ball so Christian stays put. Base saved.
Bryce: "(Ángel Hernández) just told me if I saw the replay that I would know that I was wrong."
Interviewer: "I take it you've seen the replay...?"
Bryce: "I didn't need to see the replay."
Chris Sale has already thrown 6 pitches today with over TWO FEET of horizontal movement. It's insane.
Jonathan Schoop audio: "What the f**k is that?!?" 😂
Shohei Ohtani singled and doubled, was intentionally walked, and hit his MLB-leading 35th home run as the Los Angeles Angels defeated the New York Yankees, 4-3.
This is legitimately crazy.
Rizzo this year before this happened:
53 games, 11 HR, .304/.376/.505 (.880 OPS)
Rizzo this year after this happened:
46 games, 1 HR, .172/.271/.225 (.496 OPS)
Many people don't believe that just seven years ago there was a hill in CF in Houston with a 30° incline and a freaking flagpole on top of it (on the field and in play!) but there is video evidence.
Shohei Ohtani hit 171 home runs in these past 3 seasons and struck out a total of 542 batters while doing it. 😮
Babe Ruth never once struck out more than 3 batters in a season that he hit 30+ homers. It's true.
No one's ever done anything like this before.
MLB team records, last 8 days:
7-0 OAK
7-1 LAA
6-1 ARI
6-2 CIN SF
5-2 ATL BAL PHI
4-2 SD
5-3 TB
4-3 MIA SEA CLE TOR
3-4 CWS CHC MIN NYY LAD
3-5 BOS COL
2-4 PIT
2-5 HOU MIL STL TEX
1-5 DET WSH
1-6 NYM
0-7 KC
Tell me an MLB record that will never be broken.
Please contribute. I'll start.
Fernando Tatís Sr. hit two grand slams...
...against the same pitcher...
in the same inning. 😮
61% of the TVs in Puerto Rico were tuned to the World Baseball Classic game between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico!
𝟲𝟭%! 😮
Meaningless, my ass.
Chris Davis begins receiving deferred payments next year for a 15-year period. He will get:
💰 $9.16M/year from 2023-2025
💰 $3.5M/year from 2026-2032
💰 $1.4M/year from 2033-2037
The total is $42M.