Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman highlight Shohei Ohtani’s historic performance against the Philadelphia Phillies and talk about how they think the Dodgers will use him in the postseason. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Last night was, oh man, OK, so he goes 5 no-hit innings last night, and, you know, he’s always, he hits his 50th homer.
Which, which is cool.
50 homers in consecutive seasons.
I mean, listen, uh, we’re so lucky.
I’m so glad that we’re just now here.
We’re back.
We’re so back.
It’s, here it is.
Shohei, the two-way guy, like, as awesome as last year was, we always said, oh man, and wait till he comes back.
It was for nights like last night, and yes, the Dodgers still lost.
Yes, they did.
In typical fashion, probably Shohei’s most typical, uh, Aramayo game yet as a Dodger, where he goes 5 no-hit innings, hits his 50th homer and the Dodgers still lose.
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But this is just so cool, man.
Come on, this is, it’s ridiculous.
It’s absurd.
This is, I can’t even, and now as we head towards the possibility of Otani pitching in October, the, the, the tenor changes because as a neutral, I’m excited.
But it also is, even the people who aren’t rooting for the Dodgers are like, OK, hey, that’s your best pitcher or one of your best pitchers, you should let them throw more than 5 innings.
And what’s fascinating is that as everything with Otani, there’s no road map, no one knows how to handle this.
No one knows who’s exactly in charge, who’s calling the shots.
And so you have Andrew Friedman going out there and being like, yeah, we might not push him beyond 5 innings because we want to be mindful of keeping him fresh so that he can carry our offense.
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We’re, we’re gonna head for some pretty interesting discussions here with October starting how the Dodgers choose to line it up.
How often he can pitch.
It’s not just the fact that like, oh, OK, he might only go 5 innings.
It’s the fact that he’s going a week between starts, right?
And so does that change at any point?
That’s something I’m really interested in as we kind of start mapping out the postseason schedule.
Now maybe they lose in the first round, none of this matters, but that’s another thing I, as we go deeper into October, his availability on a day to day basis is something I’m fascinated by.