In his veryfirst look on the mound at Fenway Park, Shohei Ohtani supplied a glance of what it should haveactually been like to watch Babe Ruth in his batting and pitching primetime with the Boston Red Sox.
Starting on the mound and striking 3rd in the Los Angeles Angels lineup, Ohtani was exceptional in both functions Thursday afternoon.
He tossed 7 nothing innings and struck out 11 Red Sox batters without a walk in an 8-0 success, throwing 81 of his 99 pitches for strikes.
At the plate, Ohtani had 2 strikes in 4 at-bats. In a five-run 8th inning that broke the videogame open, his blistering line drive off the Green Monster in left field was struck so hard that it foreshadowed the end of his day as a pitcher.
Yes, even the hand-operated scoreboard at Fenway Park couldn’t include Ohtani on this specific day.
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