Or maybe he won’t once game intensity starts. There won’t be a pitch clock at the WBC, but Ohtani might keep the quick pitch tempo anyway. “I think as long as I get games under my belt, I should be fine,” he said. He owns a combination of physical and mental tools the game has never seen.Īsked about the pitch clock, Ohtani said he felt rushed, but he wasn’t worried.
Ohtani also heads into a free-agent season as a once-in-a-generation two-way player who can hit and pitch at the highest of levels. “In the second inning, I would have really liked to hit 100, but (it was) 98. “This was the first real game this year so I wanted to ease in and try to hit around 95 (mph) and I was able to do that,” Ohtani said through an interpreter about his 1-2-3 first inning. He departed after a visit from Manager Phil Nevin, content after throwing 33 pitches with two walks, two strikeouts and no hits. His final act on the mound was to hop in disbelief after his pitch to Ryan Noda was called out of the strike zone for a walk. He faced six batters through two innings and then faced two more bonus hitters in the third inning against the Oakland Athletics. The Angels’ two-way star made his last appearance with the Angels before leaving for Japan in advance of World Baseball Classic play. Shohei Ohtani was scheduled to take the mound for two innings in his 2023 spring training pitching debut Tuesday afternoon but as with everything else in his major league career, he gave even more.
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