There goes Shohai Ohtani, the best there ever was in this game.

[uncgriff]

Move over Roy Hobbs. Just amazing.

Ohtani, the Greatest Shoh on Earth, just had the greatest game in baseball history - The Athletic Ohtani, the Greatest Shoh on Earth, just had the greatest game in baseball history

 

[uncgriff]

 

[altmin]

Yeah that was pretty good, but does it compare to UNC almost beating Cal on the same night?


Seriously: utterly amazing.

 

[sringwal]

Poor Nick Kurtz. He just put together one of the best rookie seasons, and did this:

Nick Kurtz May Have Just Had the Best Offensive Game in MLB History

Nick Kurtz had quietly been one of the most exciting players in baseball since his arrival. On Friday night against the Houston Astros, he turned up the volume

www.si.com

And then came Ohanti.

 

[ChapelHillSooner]

I can’t even wrap my head around how good he was last night.

 

[DiehardHeelFan]

Struck out the side in the top of the first inning and then led off the bottom of the first inning with a HR. Just that alone is pretty damn amazing. But 6IP, 2 hits, 0 runs, 10K and oh yeah, 3 HR’s at the plate. Had more HR’s than hits he gave up.

 

[nycfan]

Yeah, I had a super nerd moment recalling how in Star Trek DS9, Buckaroo Bokai was the last great baseball player before baseball collapsed, so went back to see their idea of great player stats (written from a mid 1990s perspective). Even a sci fi show didn’t have the audacity to imagine a player like Shohei Ohtani. The fictional Bokai was merely and infielder and more of a latter day Joe DiMaggio, with modest power numbers (but crazy batting average) by today’s standards.

 

[dukeman92]