Shohei Ohtani has major expectations to live up to after signing a $700 million deal this past offseason with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and so far he has been worth every penny.
Ohtani is hitting a blistering .361 so far with tremendous power, and his blast last night was one of his most satisfying to date.
Shohei Ohtani has major expectations to live up to after signing a $700 million deal this past offseason with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and so far he has been worth every penny.
Ohtani is hitting a blistering .361 so far with tremendous power, and his blast last night was one of his most satisfying to date.
Shohei kicked off the scoring in the fourth inning of last night’s 10-2 win over the San Francisco Giants with a majestic 446-foot shot to right center field that made its way completely out of Oracle Park and had a good chance of hitting the water if he had pulled it a bit more.
Statcast showed that the homer had an exit velocity of 113.4 miles per hour and Ohtani’s bat speed was 82.3 mph, per MLB Stats.
There are few things in baseball as pretty as when Ohtani unleashes a deep home run to right field, as the power he generates with his textbook swing is a sight to behold.
He has his Dodgers on a tear, having won 17 of their last 21 games en route to opening up an early 7.5-game lead in the NL West.
LA leads the majors in nearly every major offensive category and is getting some dominant starting pitching as well from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, James Paxton, and Gavin Stone.
Ohtani is putting himself in the early running for the triple crown and would be the early frontrunner for MVP if his teammate Mookie Betts wasn’t off to an equally incredible start.
