ANAHEIM, California – Shohei Ohtani throws a baseball 101 km / h at the top of the first and then hits a baseball 115 km / h half an innings later, an exciting start to a historic Sunday night for the Los Angeles Angels’ two-way sensation.
Ohtani, who hit and hit for the first time in his career in the same game, retired three of the first four Chicago White Sox batsmen he faced in the top half of the first innings and three places in threw the triple digits – including a 101 mph fast ball to Adam Eaton, followed by a nasty splitter in the dirt to take a hit.
In the bottom half, Ohtani turned on the first pitch he saw from White Sox’s right-hand man Dylan Cease – a chest high, 97 mph fast ball – and started it 451 feet to right field, giving him early support.
Ohtani’s pitch to Eaton (officially 100.6 mph) was the fastest yard of any starting pitcher this season, and his home track (with an exit speed of 115.2 mph) was the player hit the hardest.
Ohtani, who underwent surgery on Tommy John after his rookie season, has collected just 53⅓ innings as a pitcher since his debut in the league in 2018. Joe Maddon, manager of the English team, committed himself in 2021 to a two-way player and charged a lot. of the restrictions previously imposed, which prevented him from being in the series the day before, the day after, and the day of his start.
On Sunday, he became the first starting pitcher to bat second in a game since Jack Dunleavy in 1903.