June 21, 2022: Shohei Ohtani hit two three-run homers and drove in a career-high eight runs. Ohtani is the eighth player in Angels history to have eight RBIs in a game. It was also the most RBIs in a game by a Japanese-born player. His two dongs were hit 423 and 438 feet.
June 22, 2022: Shohei Ohtani pitched eight scoreless innings and struck out a career-high 13 batters. After a pregame ceremony delayed the start of the game, Ohtani gave up back-to-back singles. Then he retired 16 batters in a row, including 10 by strikeout, before issuing a walk. Ohtani retired 23 of the last 24 batters he faced. In the seventh inning on a humid night, his fastball was still hitting 100 mph.
Only one other player in history has had a 10+-strikeout game as a pitcher and an 8+-RBI game as a hitter in his entire career. Atlanta's Tony Cloninger struck out 12 on April 12, 1966 (Opening Day), but lost a complete game in 13 innings. On July 3, 1966, he knocked in nine runs (he also hit two grand slams) against the Giants. He pitched a complete game that day, too: 9-7-3-2-5.
Oh, there's more Ohtani:
June 15, 2022: The Angels were only two outs away from being no-hit for the first time since 1999, when Ohtani tripled down the right-field line off Tyler Anderson of the Dodgers.
June 25, 2022: Ohtani hit another home run on Saturday night, estimated at 462 feet. It was the hardest hit ball of his career, 118 mph off the bat! It was also the hardest hit home run by any Angels player since 2015 (when Statcast was born).
June 23
Dodgers – 012 211 111 – 10 16 1 Reds – 000 100 400 – 5 13 0
June 24 (five games with binary linescores: only 0s and 1s):
Orioles – 110 100 010 – 4 5 0
White Sox – 010 000 000 – 1 1 0Athletics – 000 100 000 – 1 6 0
Royals – 001 011 00x – 3 8 0Phillies – 000 000 000 – 0 5 1
Padres – 000 001 00x – 1 7 0Nationals – 000 001 010 – 2 9 0
Texas – 000 001 000 – 1 8 0Rockies – 000 001 000 – 1 5 1
Twins – 000 000 000 – 0 3 0June 25
Astros – 000 000 111 – 3 8 1 Yankees – 000 000 000 – 0 0 0
It's insane to think that you have Trout AND Ohtani on the same team, and yet the Angels have not made the postseason since 2014 (swept by Kansas City in one of the division series that fall). Trout went 1-for-12 in that series with three walks, his only hit being a home run.
ReplyDeleteLos Angeles is five games under .500, 11.5 games behind Houston for the AL West, and 6.5 game behind the third WC spot.