ANAHEIM, Caliph. – Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels suffered a good scare, after the Japanese left the game after an action in which he was kicked in the foot in a rough play in man against the Chicago White Sox.
After the White Sox had men in second and third with two outs in the fifth inning, they came close 3-1 on the board with a wild pitch from Ohtani. The Japanese struck out Yoan Montcada, but the shot hit the floor and catcher Max Stassi made a bad shot at first to complete the out, with Adam Eaton scoring from the front and Abreu, who ran from from the middle, he came swept to man, where Ohtani waited to put him out.
Abreu kicked Ohtani’s legs, who stood on the floor for a few seconds, but then got up to walk toward the dugoout without apparently any serious injuries.
Steve Cishek took the last out of the top of the fifth inning after relieving Ohtani, who worked four innings and two-thirds in which he allowed two hits, three runs, one clean, gave away 5 bases per ball i poncho a set.
The Angels reported during ESPN’s broadcast that Ohtani was not relieved of any injury issues and that the Japanese only felt general pain after his performance and would be re-evaluated on Monday.
At the start of the match, Ohtani made his first game as a pitcher and batsman historic by making a 101-mile throw at the top of the first inning and then hitting with a 115-mile starting speed in first pitching he saw on his first turn at bat.
Ohtani retired the first three hitters from the Chicago White Sox with three throws of at least 100 miles, including a 101 straight to Adam Eaton, which was followed by a rude splitter who hit the floor to get the punch out.
Down from the first episode, Ohtani connected the first shot he saw from the White Sox right-hander Dylan Marry, a 97-mile straight at chest height, and sent it 475 feet through the garden. right to give himself morning offensive support to himself.
Ohtani’s pitching at Eaton, officially 100.6 miles, is the fastest done by any pitcher in the current season and his home run, with a starting speed of 115.2 miles, is the hardest hit also in the current Calendar.
Ohtani, who underwent Tommy John surgery after his rookie season, had amassed just 53 innings and a third of work as a pitcher since his Major League debut in 2018, but Angels manager Joe Maddon went decided to use him as a pitcher and hitter in 2021 and lifted several restrictions that kept him out of the lineup the day before and after his exits as an opener.
On Sunday, the Japanese became the first pitcher to bat second in order in a game since Jack Dunleavy did so in 1903.