With Shohei Ohtani having 57 stolen bases heading into Saturday night time’s sport in Denver in opposition to the Colorado Rockies, the Japanese sensation appeared to have taken one other fast step towards reaching 60 stolen bases. Nevertheless, a Los Angeles Dodgers teammate’s errant swing turned Ohtani’s stolen base into a clumsy 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 subsequent Dodgers batter, Mookie Betts, coming to the plate, all eyes have been on Ohtani and his capacity to steal bases.
On a 3-2 pitch to Betts, Ohtani received an unimaginable bounce on Colorado beginning pitcher Antonio Senzatela and appeared to have second base stolen simply. Nevertheless, Betts swung on the full-count pitch, popping it as much as Rockies first baseman Michael Toglia. The pop-up was so excessive, in actual fact, that Ohtani had an opportunity to get again to first base all the way in which from second earlier than Toglia caught it and flipped into Senzatela, who was overlaying on the play.
Nevertheless, though 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 under, and see simply how far Ohtani was earlier than he needed to attempt to get again to first base.
