With Shohei Ohtani having 57 stolen bases heading into Saturday evening’s sport in Denver towards the Colorado Rockies, the Japanese sensation seemed to have taken one other fast step towards reaching 60 stolen bases. Nonetheless, a Los Angeles Dodgers teammate’s errant swing turned Ohtani’s stolen base into an ungainly double play.
Within the first inning, Ohtani led off the sport with a scorching single to proper discipline, measuring 111.3 mph off the bat. With the following Dodgers batter, Mookie Betts, coming to the plate, all eyes had been on Ohtani and his potential to steal bases.
On a 3-2 pitch to Betts, Ohtani acquired an unimaginable soar on Colorado beginning pitcher Antonio Senzatela and appeared to have second base stolen simply. Nonetheless, Betts swung on the full-count pitch, popping it as much as Rockies first baseman Michael Toglia. The pop-up was so excessive, in truth, that Ohtani had an opportunity to get again to first base all the best way from second earlier than Toglia caught it and flipped into Senzatela, who was masking on the play.
Nonetheless, regardless that Ohtani reached first earlier than the throw, he had rounded second because the excessive pop-up was within the air. As he hustled to get again to first, he did not contact second on his return, which means Colorado may end off the double play by merely throwing the ball to second base.
Watch the loopy play beneath, and see simply how far Ohtani was earlier than he needed to attempt to get again to first base.
