shohei ohtani alert

ONE MORE HOMER

I just tuned in and he did it, good for him!

50/51 and there is over a week left.

5-5 with 2 homers, 2 doubles, and 2 steals

what a player

oh my god

MLB Network is going overboard, saying stuff like the greatest baseball player of all time.

Slow down a moment...

you are fucking kidding me

No fucking way

WOW!

what

the fuck

it will be interesting seeing the research roll in tomorrow to see how this compares with the great single offensive games of all time

i remember Nomar getting 10 RBI once, like shohei has today. it was 2 slams i think, making up the preponderance. but this blows that away

the record for total bases in a game is Shawn Green w/19 (6-6, 4 HR, 2 doubles), Shohei is at 17.

on the day he annihilated Green's single season Dodger HR record too.

Three more batters till ohtani is back up. Why not get a cycle today too while you're at it?

Damnit norby

ho lee shit

I kinda don't know what to say

Except that it's insanely on brand for Ohtani to skip a 50/50 day and go straight to 51/51

Final batting line today: 6-for-6 with 3 HRs, 2 SB, 2 doubles, 10 RBI.

Forgetting 51/51 for a moment (lol), I actually can't remember a game I've seen with a better batting line. Clemenza, you got a recent comparison for me?

Is he going to pitch in the postseason? I would not put it past him at this point.

Since RBI became official in 1920, only one MLB player has had, over the course of his entire career (same game or not),

a game with 10+ RBI
a game with 6+ hits
a game with 5+ XBH
a game with 3+ HR
a game with 2+ SB

That one player is Shohei Ohtani. He did all of it today. pic.twitter.com/njXOmwHKnm

— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) September 20, 2024

uhh

every single hit today was an absolute rope

Just saw the whole thing in sequence. To (possibly) make it all even more amazing, he was 3-3 with 2 SB..then hit the 3 HR. And if he hadn't been thrown out at third (on the third hit, I think), he would have had a cycle, too.

Funny comment on the tweet above: "If he had had this game for the Angels, they would have still lost somehow."

A year ago to the day he had Tommy John's* surgery.

So what record is he breaking next? I believe in the 5hr game.

only 2 HR shy of Judge for the MLB lead now

He's got 9 games left to play around with still. I believe

he needs to stop running imo, unless they're in deep danger of losing the bye

Boooooooo

priorities, man

I don't see the dodgers reigning him in. Not sure they even could if they tried

Funny misspell

I don’t really have anything to add but wanna post in this thread anyway

Dude is living in a different reality than the rest of us. As for future records, I can definitely see him hitting 5HR in a game. In this game he was about two feet from another HR on that first double of the game. If that one had gone out, there'd be no question about whether this was the "greatest game ever".

MLB Network is going overboard, saying stuff like the greatest baseball player of all time.

Slow down a moment...

is he going to reach bonds/mays/ruth levels of WAR for a career? probably not. but he is clearly doing entire levels of stuff that no other baseball player has ever done or likely will do. i mean jfc

He’s amazing

i know i'm a little late to the party here but holy moly what ohtani did

I think James once devised a kind of provisional Game Score for hitters, but googled and found nothing. Probably on his website, and all that stuff's gone now.

Shohei surely locked up that MVP award with that game

One thing about the SB thing that bothers me is that Ohtani is stealing in the "new era":

pitch clock
limited pick off attempts
increased base size so there's 4.5" less distance to cover between bases
etc.

It doesn't overshadow what he's done, but it's definitely not the same when people start trotting out the historical comparisons.

Is there a SABR way of devaluing the >2022 stolen base or revaluing the <2022 stolen base?

51/55, though? To me, that more than negates the things you point out.

lol

https://sports.yahoo.com/verdict-shohei-ohtanis-bat-not-good-023611674.html

The only tiny, tiny asterisk I'd add to last night--I'm really not trying to being a gadfly here; it's a really tiny one--is that the third HR was off a position player. When I watched the highlights last night, I did think "That guy's a pitcher?" when the last one floated up to the plate--just had that confirmed now.

well that’s what happens when you comprehensively murtalize the other team - if anything it’s further proof that shohei can’t be stopped

put another way, if shohei wasn’t so good, it’s unlikely that position player would have been in the game at that point

tough to give shohei an asterisk for that

my asterisk is that home runs/stolen bases seems like an arbitrary pairing

is there a sabrmetric deep dive that explains the significance?