The Los Angeles Angels aim to make the playoffs to convince Shohei Ohtani to stay in town. Will this happen?
With Jose Quijada (relief) who will suffer a Tommy John, it’s one more pitfall for a club that is currently out of the half-game playoff portrait.
Brief. All that to say that to make the playoffs, the club will need everything that Shohei Ohtani can offer his club.
And yesterday, he gave a performance… à la Shohei Ohtani.
In five innings of work, he gave up four earned runs (he’s been giving a little too many runs for two games), but he still got 13 guys in the mitt, which is his personal best. He also has an RBI and three hits as a batter, of course.
In the victory of his team against the Cardinals, he therefore reached the mark of 500 career strikeouts as a pitcher. And since he also has at least 100 home runs as a hitter, he joined Babe Ruth in an exclusive category: 500K and 100CC in career.
In the last week, Ohtani has 11 hits as a batter and 21 strikeouts as a pitcher. No one has ever done that in modern major league history in a week.
I can’t wait to see if the Angels make the playoffs, anyway…
- The Yankees won their game, but there were injuries (Oswald Perara, Harrison Bader) and Aaron Boone was criticized.
- Wander Franco: a game that makes you react.
- Carlos Correa’s past is catching up with him.
- Max Scherzer needs to give more.
- Another loss for the Blue Jays.
- It is ultimately a Tommy John that Robbie Ray suffered.
