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On a night he pitched six hitless innings against the Colorado Rockies, Shohei Ohtani still was not happy with his stuff.
In the Dodgers’ 4-1 win on Wednesday, the two-way star still did more than enough to complete a three-game series sweep at Dodger Stadium.
He hit a leadoff home run as a hitter, the second-straight time he has done so in a pitching start. He gave up only one run in his six innings on the mound, after walking one batter and hitting another to lead off the fourth.
And he finished his outing with seven strikeouts — turning over a combined no-hitter bid that wasn’t broken up until Tyler Freeman’s single off Tanner Scott with two outs in the eighth.
It was evident early, when he dropped an audible F-bomb after yanking a 2-0 fastball en route to walking Ezequiel Tovar in the second.
Frustration mounted again in the fourth, when he followed up a full-count free pass to TJ Rumfield by plunking Hunter Goodman –– allowing the Rockies to eventually score their lone run against him on back-to-back ground balls.
Even after he concluded his night as a pitcher, allowing no further damage in a performance that (in a sign of his pitching dominance so far this year) slightly raised his ERA to 0.82, Ohtani looked disgruntled back in the dugout.
His final line was six innings, one run, no hits, four walks, one hit batter and seven strikeouts.
A gem for anyone else. A disappointment for the superstar four-time MVP.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
