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Could Shohei Ohtani win the Cy Young?
Only Shohei can experience pitch clock violation both as a pitcher and as a batter. That’s not going to happen to another player in a long time, if ever.
He didn’t do as good this game. But his calmness and adjustments were the key for him to get through 6 innings. It kinda helps when 2 of the plays were opposing runners got caught for trying to get one more base. One of them was an error but turned out to help tag out the guy at home base.
As usual, Shohei was being helpful getting the ball for the opposing team pitcher. That was funny & cute.
Not just his offense… The Angels did great to get the other runs. Let’s stop pretending he’s not on a team.
Gotta love Shohei! The dude is definitely an Angel!
….for now. :o)
I hadn’t been to a ball game in many years and when I saw that Shohei was pitching against the Mariners I asked my mother if she wanted to go to the game. We drove 5 hours each way to see him play yesterday. It was worth every bit of traffic and stiff shoulders. In spite of the troubles he had in that game he remained composed and a good sport. He is a great role model all around and it was a treat to watch him. I loved getting to see the Mariners play, too. Such a fun team! I hope Ichiro made a good sales pitch. 😉
The Mariners studied Shohei’s pitches and said he changed his pitches in the 3rd inning and threw pitches that they have not seen or expected. Unicorn man.
What made him finish the sixth is when he saw Loup warming up. Perhaps he had thoughts about the Oakland game. Hope Loup regains his confidence and talent to shut down opponents when it’s really needed.
I’m a big Ohtani fan, but I wouldn’t call that pitching “great” if trying to be objective about it. The first start was not “arguably better,” it was beyond dispute better. But I credit him with settling down after struggling, as you say, with serious command issues. As Mark Gubicza said during the broadcast, we might attribute it in part to the weather conditions as he seemed to have trouble getting good grip in the colder temps. It was reported during the game that Ohtani had never pitched in a game with temps below 50 degrees. So it’s not surprising he would struggle to adjust to that. And he still deserves a W for his first game when the bullpen blew the slim lead that he had after pitching so well for six innings.
It’s a Monster player, for me the best ever in every parts of the game