[Special commentary]Shohei Otani No. 9 home run! He pitched six innings without a hit and his ERA was an astonishing 0.82! Joe Tori and Big Papi also highly praised him.

Shohei Otani has once again broken common sense. In today’s game between the Dodgers and the Rockies, Ohtani hit a home run against the leadoff batter for the second consecutive game in which he pitched, and he pitched overwhelmingly with zero hits, seven strikeouts, and an ERA of 0.8 in the 6th inning, earning his 5th win. This season’s No. 9 shot is an oversized arch to the back screen. It was a match that showed off the true power of “real dual-wielding,” in which he single-handedly dictates the flow of the match by throwing and hitting. Coach Tory and Alex Pappy will thoroughly explain this game from their respective perspectives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 Coach Torrey’s perspective: “A guy who can do things like little league” Coach Torrey says: “This guy’s doing it in the major leagues like he’s doing it in little league.” Everyone must have seen a kid playing No. 4 as an ace in a baseball game when he was a kid. He was the only one on the team who was on a different level, and was overwhelming in both throwing and hitting. Shohei Ohtani is recreating that feeling on the world’s highest stage, the Major League Baseball. In the first inning, he struck out a batter on the mound, and immediately after that, in his own turn at bat, he hit a home run into the back screen. What’s more, he pitched in two consecutive games following his last appearance. A normal player would be preoccupied with just pitching as a starting pitcher. He stands on the mound, paying close attention to everything from arranging the game, responding to the opponent’s batting lineup, and managing the number of pitches. However, Ohtani is able to carry his concentration on the mound directly to his turn at bat. This cannot be explained by mere talent alone. Coach Tory asserted that his mental structure is fundamentally different from other players. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚾ Alex’s explanation: “How abnormal is two consecutive games?” What attracted Alex’s attention was the “abnormality” of the leadoff batter’s home run. Imagine your routine on the day you start as a pitcher. He carefully prepares his shoulders in the bullpen, takes a final look at the data on the opponent’s batting lineup, and then takes the mound and concentrates all his attention on his first pitch. Immediately after that, he steps into the at-bat and hits a home run? If you think about it normally, it must be difficult just to switch from pitcher mode to batter mode. And it’s two games in a row. In the last game against the Padres, he hit the first pitch and turned it into a home run. If something like this were to be seen in front of their eyes, the opposing team would completely lose their will to fight. His record as a pitcher is also impressive. He pitched 6 innings, allowed no hits, and had 7 strikeouts for his 5th win. His ERA is 0.8. Frankly speaking, Alex said that the existence of this man who has achieved top-notch results in both hitting and pitching at the same time is unusual. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💪 Puppy’s commentary “Four pinches and Shohei’s stubbornness” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Puppy focused on the biggest crisis that came in the 4th inning. He gave consecutive walks to the first batter, with no outs on 1st and 2nd base. For a normal pitcher, this is the worst development that could lead to him conceding a lot of runs. From a batter’s standpoint, it’s a situation where your adrenaline is running high, thinking, “Okay, here’s where we go.” However, Shohei got through this crisis with just one point. Particularly impressive was the final confrontation with Tovar. Instead of shaking it up with a breaking ball, he dared to enter the game with just a straight ball. He threw three fastballs in a row and struck out three. He threw three fastballs in a row and didn’t even let them hit the bat. Shohei’s determination and pride as a pitcher was evident here. Shohei Ohtani is a pitcher who shows his true potential in situations of crisis, and uses his power to overwhelm opponents. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 “Invisible power” created by the sweeper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ There was an even more interesting scene in the second inning. There was a batter who was convinced that the in-course pitch was a ball and challenged it (requesting a replay), but the decision remained as a strike and was not overturned. Why do batters think that pitches in the strike zone are balls? The answer lies in Ohtani’s greatest weapon, the sweeper. After seeing that curve ball that curves to the side so strongly, it looks like the straight ball that comes in the direction of the ball is farther inside than it actually is. Because he has a sharp curveball, a fastball that comes from the same arm swing will be many times more useful. This pitching technique, which messes with the batter’s vision and judgment, is the true reason behind his astonishing ERA of 0.8. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Shohei Otani completely dominated the game in both pitching and hitting. He gave the team momentum with a home run to the leadoff batter in the first inning, and on the mound, he overcame a four-ball crisis with the fewest runs allowed, and continued to confuse batters’ decisions with his combination of sweeper and fastball. It was an overwhelming performance that is unprecedented in Major League history, with one player completely controlling the flow of the game. This season is still going on. How far will this man extend his records and how far will he go to rewrite the common sense of Major League Baseball? 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