I love playoff baseball. I think I'm done with regular season baseball, but hook playoff baseball to my veins.
I still can't believe Shohei Ohtani exists. When I describe him, he sounds fictional. Like I dreamt him during a fever. He's a unicorn, except unicorns don't exist.
Ohtani started game 4 last night, striking out 10 across six-plus scoreless innings. Got that? 10 ks of shutout ball in a game the Dodgers would win 5-1 to put LA in the World Series.
Now how did the Dodgers score those 5 runs? Well, 3 were solo home runs by the aforementioned Shohei Ohtani. One led off the game, and another travelled 469 feet, all the way out of Dodger Stadium.
Many believe this is the single greatest game by any player in the history of the game. Even if you put aside the 3 home runs:
- He's the 1st player in MLB history with 3 homers and 10 strikeouts as a pitcher
- He's the first pitcher with 10 or more strikeouts and no runs allowed in a postseason pennant-clinching game
- He's the first Dodgers starter with multiple strikeouts on 100-plus mph pitches in a postseason career since pitch tracking began in 2008
Insane.
