Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani returns to unprecedented dominance
Maybe there was nothing wrong in the first place.
Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani returns to unprecedented dominance originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Los Angeles Dodgers hadn't kept Shohei Ohtani in the batting lineup while he was pitching in nearly a month.
But they allowed their two-way superstar to be just that on Wednesday night against the San Diego Padres , and he didn't disappoint. Playing on the road, Ohtani led off the game with a solo home run. He then proceeded to throw five shutout innings and lower his season ERA to 0.
73. Turns out, Ohtani might be just fine. There remains no one like him on the planet, and after there were some worries about his overall workload this season, Ohtani appears to have returned to that realm where no one else has ever existed.
Because a leadoff home run and five scoreless pitching innings in the same game? No one else does that. Shohei Ohtani hits the first pitch of the game out of the park āļø pic.