Posted on 10/18/2025 3:43:08 PM PDT by Mariner
There has never been an MLB player like Shohei Ohtani, and he just authored his masterpiece — "The Ohtani Game" — on Friday in Game 4 of the NLCS.
Facing a Milwaukee Brewers team that held the best record in MLB during the regular season, Ohtani posted three mammoth homers in a 3-for-3 night at the plate and struck out 10 in six-plus scoreless innings on the mound, almost single-handedly pushing the Dodgers to a 5-1 win that ended a series sweep.
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He’s an amazing player. I’m not a Dodger fan, but Ohtani is fun to watch.
Saw the 20 minutes of game highlights. Very exciting.
I am not a Dodgers fan either. I am a Giants fan.
But credit where credit is due.
We’re not likely to see a talent like this again in our lifetimes.
It’s clearly among the most impressive performances ever in a major league baseball game. But whether it was the greatest game of all time, there might be argument. What about game 6 of the 1975 World Series between Cincinnati and Boston?
Meh. For over a half a billion he can learn English like everyone else
Blech
He is an amazing baseball player. Toss in there his unusual size for a Japanese person. Truly a freak (in a great way)
Why bother
they mean’t from a personal stand point...not the over all game, just HIS game.
Amazing player and probably an unprecedented individual performance. But enough with all the talk that he’s the greatest player who ever lived. That would be …The Babe.
Batting:
HRs per 162: Ruth 46, Ohtani 45
RBIs per 162: Ruth 141, Ohtani 106
Lifetime BA: Ruth .340, Ohtani .282
Lifetime OBP: Ruth .474, Ohtani .374
Lifetime SLG: Ruth .690, Ohtani . 582
Pitching:
ERA: Ruth 3.00, Oh 3.00
W-L: Ruth 94-46 (.671), Ohtani 39-20 (.661)
So far.
Ohtani understands English.
Speaking English when Japanese is your first language is hard for most people. My grandparents spent a combined 200 years in the United States and while they understood English very well, speaking English was another story.
Blech
A greart achievement, for sure, but the fact that the 10 strikeouts were against postseason Brewers lessens it somewhat.
That’s why I stopped watching sports (except horse racing). The woke Dodgers are now in bed with the LGBTQIA gang.
I'm afraid not, and it's not even close.
Let me take you back to 1966:
Tony Cloninger, a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, hit two grand slams in a single game on July 3, 1966, during a 17-3 win against the San Francisco Giants.
Mr. Cloniger also pitched a complete game, and the two grand slams resulted in a then-major league record of nine runs batted in for a pitcher.
Have a nice day.
Please explain blech. What exactly are you trying to say?
Take a gander at his MLB stats. Good, but nowhere near the top.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/39832/shohei-ohtani
I had forgotten that performance. I think it is close. Ohtani did it,especially the 2 hit 10 Ks in a playoff game vs a team coming off to impressive playoff victories. The pressure on Cloninger was not as high even though those Giants had Mays, Cepeda, McCovey. It’s close but I’ll still give the nod to Ohtani, if only because of the importance of the game.
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