Breaking down Shohei Ohtani’s 10 strikeouts and 3 homers in his Game 4 two-way NLCS show 🤩

Players to hit three homers in a series clinching game. We’re talking the great Bambino , we’re talking Reggie Jackson. Adam Kennedy 02 A L CS game five. Adrian Beltre, the Hall of Famer #### hernandez back in 2017. I was there for that one that you can tell stories about that one and Otani in NL CS game four so much to digest when it comes to Otani, we’ll get to the pitching in just a 2nd 1st, the hitting he’s not getting cheated , right? Alex, he’s smoking the ball. This was incredible. Yeah, I mean, the story too, the first couple of games was, you know, what’s wrong with Otani? He was slumping, you know, all he was three for 29 prior to that game on Thursday. And, you know, everyone was trying to figure out what was wrong with him. He was pulling off some pitches , he looked a little off balance. It was like he was kind of in between, you know, a little late on the fastball early on the offspeed pitcher, he goes back and ends up, you know, taking batting practice outside. We saw this on Wednesday for the first time. All year and, you know, everybody made a big deal about it, but he’s trying to get a feel back. He’s trying to figure out where he’s at. Um, you know, and what he needs to do to get back to it sometimes facing a tough lefty too, helps you keep that front shoulder in a little bit longer on a tough breaking ball behind the count is able to hit it down the line on Thursday for the triple. Then he stays in there a little bit better on a hanging breaking ball from Quintana today to start off with the homer gets a cutter on the inner half. 31 gets the bat head out off of Patrick and hits this one a country mile. But Then a 1299 mile an hour fastball from mcgill in the inner half all of a sudden is able to stay in like that. That’s really tough to do right there. You know, three homers, you can see the splits here from the series for Otani. Yeah, he went from being one for 7 to 4 for 73 homers, 10 punch outs and, and an NL CS MV P Will smith, obviously the guy calling the game there for shohei Otani and on the mound, you know, there’s so many different aspects of pitching here, you know, this release point, velocity, movement, spin rate, everything working in concert tonight. Yeah, when a starter comes out, we look for him, you know, the, is the release point there? What does the stuff look like? Does it have that on it from the get go? We saw him, you know, command wise, kind of like Bieber kind of like Scherzer. It took him just a few pitches, but this man found it. We talk about. Is it coming out good? Yep. It was 100 miles an hour and look at these, these are perfectly executed. They’re placed up there. And Then when you start working this sweeper, look at the different shapes. The different speeds is what we’re after. This is what it looks like from the box ball starting on the inner half and Then again, running out of barrel. The splitter tonight was the pitch for me, zero for five with five K’s on the splitter. When guys were swinging, this is what he came over here with. This is now come back into the arsenal and oh, by the way, I could not build a tape without saying he went 446 he went 469 and Then 427. None of this makes sense. Again, my brain is having a hard time wrapping it itself around what he did tonight to go out there and have those shapes and to be that dominant a pitcher and punch out 10 to hit over 1300 ft of homers balls out of the stadium. Truly greatness like Mookie Betts said, the great starting pitching staff as a whole effort here for the Dodgers pushing them two earned runs in 28 and two thirds. The Dodgers starting pitching was absolutely unbelievable. Otani coming in and batted two and seven in 15 games in which he was the starting pitcher, offensive juggernaut in this.

MLB Tonight discusses Shohei Ohtani’s impressive performance in the Dodgers’ 5-1 win over the Brewers in Game 4 of the NLCS.

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46 comments

  11. Maybe MESSI can go out and score 3 goals and switch to being a goalie and blocks the final penalty kick and wins the world cup… only available on PS6 console…. PS5 is old school…

  30. I think he has to be removed from the contestants of any baseball MVPs… he just cannot be compared, almost unfair that he exists😅😅😅

  36. There were MVPs and All-Stars all around Ohtani, and he made them look as if they were just other fans. When Shohei does his thing, he is just on another level from everyone else.

  37. We are witnessing history. Undisputed GOATs come once in a lifetime. I can only think of Tiger Woods. Any other, Brady, Jordan, Messi, Djokovic, can be debated (Mahomes, LeBron, Cristiano, Roger/Rafa…). But Shohei Ohtani is the greatest player ever to play baseball and his calm demeanor makes it even more extraordinary. Let’s rejoice

  38. It’s the pitching helped his hitting, he can suddenly read the ball much better than when he’s not pitching, I’m pretty sure pitching and hitting are related to him.

  39. 皆さんお忘れかもしれませんが、彼は2度目のTJ手術明けなのに、
    この投球パフォーマンス。おまけに肩の脱臼手術も受けてるんですよ。
    大谷の体ってどうなってるの？？ｗｗ

  44. The only reason people underestimate this performance is because it actually happened, not just in the pages of history. When something unfolds right before your eyes, it no longer feels distant or awe-inspiring — it feels real.

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