While Mookie Betts, who was the undisputed leadoff player this year, suffered a broken left hand after being hit by a fastball, Ohtani began to take the helm of the table setter on Wednesday. After changing his batting order, Ohtani played the role of a runaway train with three hits, two RBIs, two runs scored and a walk and one stolen base in the first game, and the previous day (19th) he exploded a whopping 476 feet (145.1 meters) of homeruns to rank No. 1 in home runs in the National League (20 home runs). Ohtani’s bat continued to fire. 토토사이트 추천
In his first at-bat in the top of the first inning, Ohtani stretched out his bat as hard as Colorado starter Ryan Feltner’s 94.7-mile four-seam fastball drove into the middle of the strike zone. The missed ball headed for the foul zone on the left side, and as a result, Colorado third baseman Ryan McMahon threw himself into the net to catch it, Ohtani started the game with a foul fly. However, Ohtani’s bat flared up in the attack in the top of the second inning.
With Gavin Lux’s hit, Cavan Biggio’s pitch, and Kiké Hernández’s walk, Ohtani once again stuck out his bat on Feltner’s 96.5 miles fastball on the third pitch. The ball, which stretched at a whopping 108.5 miles (175.6 kilometers), easily passed the shortstop’s key. It then led to a three-run double that cut through the left-center field. Ohtani successfully produced a hit in four consecutive games, before hitting home due to a timely hit by Freddie Freeman, a follow-up hitter.
In his third at-bat, Ohtani produced 106.4 miles (about 171.2 kilometers) of bullet ball, but only grounded out to the third base. In the top of the sixth inning, he pulled the curve of 82.9 miles (about 133.4 kilometers) for the fifth pitch against Colorado’s changed pitcher Nick Mears, completing a multi-hit by pulling out a hit that fell in front of right field. The score was not reached due to the failure of the follow-up hit, but the speed of Ohtani’s batting was 104.3 miles (about 167.9 kilometers) this time as well.
However, the result at his fifth at bat was regrettable. At the top of the eighth inning when the score was tied 6-6, he faced Jake Bird with two outs and runners on first and second bases, but when both pitches were fouled, he was at a very disadvantageous count of 0B-2S, and Bird threw a slider that caught him off guard, striking out Ohtani with three pitches.
A very fierce slugfest has been taking place since the first game of the Shiritz. It was the Dodgers that smiled first in the first confrontation on the 18th. The Dodgers won 9-5 at the time, but it didn’t feel refreshed. It is because the game could have gone in a strange direction by giving up as many as four points in defense in the bottom of the ninth inning. The same was true of the previous day (19th). The score was only 4-9 until the Dodgers’ attack began in the top of the ninth inning, but Miracle happened.
The Dodgers got a chance to load the bases with one out in the top of the ninth inning, and Jason Heyward exploded the Grand Slam, chasing Colorado 8-9 to the chin. After creating another chance to score, starting with Ohtani’s hit, Teoscar Hernandez scored a come-from-behind three-run shot to win 11-9. It was the first time in 95 years since the New York Giants on June 26, 1929, that the Dodgers reversed the game, which was separated by five points in the ninth inning.
Colorado Rockies scored the first point. With Ryan McMahon’s hit and Jacob Stallings’ walk, Colorado Rockies blasted Michael Toglia’s first three-run shot. The Dodgers also launched a counterattack. With Lux’s hit, Bizio’s ball hit, and Kiké Hernández’s walk in the top of the second inning, Ohtani hit a tying double. Then, the Dodgers started leading the game 4-3, as Freeman made an upset timely hit.
Colorado tied the game with Sean Bouchard’s grounder after Toglia’s triple in the bottom of the fourth inning, and the Dodgers widened the score to 6-4 again thanks to Hayward’s timely hit in the top of the fifth inning. However, it was not easy to predict the result until the last minute of the game. Colorado made the balance 6-6 in the bottom of the seventh inning by taking advantage of the Dodgers’ errors. And Colorado smiled at the end of the day. With one out and runners on the first and third bases in the bottom of the ninth inning, Brenton Doyle, who showed great performance the previous day, made a sacrifice fly to end the game.