Shohei Ohtani gets 10 strikeouts and three home runs in single game to secure World Series spot
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Liopleurodon
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I don't watch or follow it either, but even i said damn reading the title.
I love how the homers break up the pitching in that compilation. It's like he's rubbing their faces it in by showing how "easy" it is to smash the ball and then it's just strike...strike...strike.
MastAndo
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Especially given the context (a deciding game of a postseason series), I'd venture to say it's one of the greatest single-game performances in all of sports history. Simply incredible.
Fun factoid though - on 6/23/71, Rick Wise of the Phillies threw a no-hitter and also hit 2 home runs. It was against an awful Reds team in a regular season game, so it doesn't quite compare, but I was surprised to hear something similar had happened before.
Fun factoid though - on 6/23/71, Rick Wise of the Phillies threw a no-hitter and also hit 2 home runs. It was against an awful Reds team in a regular season game, so it doesn't quite compare, but I was surprised to hear something similar had happened before.
HeisenbergFX4
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I think hitting a round ball with a round bat and making it go where you want it while someone is throwing it 100 mph is the hardest thing to do in sports
This is what it looks like to the hitter, watching on TV is very misleading on how easy it looks
Just the numbers behind it are bonkers,
.4 seconds to make a decision and act on it, about the same amount of time as blinking
Dr Bass
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I actually think that camera angle makes it look faster than it is. It actually looks like it's "speeding up" as it crosses the plate because of the way the camera lens distorts the image. The ball loses about 10% of its speed by the time it's crossed the plate. It's similar to tennis where a 120 mph serve takes under half a second to get to you, and the distance in the court is a bit longer than a mound to home plate, and some of those pros can serve over 150 mph. But if you watch court level camera views it (again) looks like the ball is gaining speed as it gets close to you. It often makes the game look super human, but it's just not the case. For those who actually play there is nothing outrageous going on in any of this. Yeah these guys are the best of the best but they are still just normal people with normal human faculties.
That said, hitting a 100mph pitch has to be one of the toughest things in sports. Coming back to tennis, returning certain serves that are basically impossible to even get a racquet on has to be up there. But then again a bat is much smaller hitting surface than a tennis racquet.
Alex Anderson
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Amazing performance but I'm still chapped over the yankees losing to them in a series that should have been closer than what it was without Boone putting in a guy who hadn't pitched for a month in Game 1 and the comedy of errors in Game 5 i think it was. I'm not saying the Yankees would have WON but it easily could been NY up 3-2.
I was kinda glad Shohei had done nothing in the playoffs before that game.
He is such a unicorn. A 6'4" Japanese guy who is fast, hits twice as well as any other Japanese import before him who is also an ace pitcher. HOW DO YOU EXIST?? I've seen a lot of japanese pro wrestlers that tall who aren't coordinated for shit.
I was kinda glad Shohei had done nothing in the playoffs before that game.
He is such a unicorn. A 6'4" Japanese guy who is fast, hits twice as well as any other Japanese import before him who is also an ace pitcher. HOW DO YOU EXIST?? I've seen a lot of japanese pro wrestlers that tall who aren't coordinated for shit.
Wheeljack539
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He's pretty much an anime/manga character in real life.
LiquidMetal14
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That is some super impressive stuff. The guys worth whatever they're paying him
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Not every hitter hits the ball like shohei. Hes a freak. It just sounds different coming off of his bat.
Wilhelm_85
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Good Lord... I knew he was good, but that's insane.
Avid Reading Horse
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Really more what it looks like to an umpire... but I mean a lot of the time they can't even figure out whether the ball was in the strike zone even after the fact
To be fair though, in real life the batter gets depth perception on account of binocular vision.