Shohei Ohtani reaches 50-50 milestone in commanding fashion | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz breakdown the stats from Shohei Ohtani’s outstanding 50-50 milestone game against the Miami Marlins. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Jordan before we hop into some specifics.
Can you just read out o Tai's line from yesterday, his bounding line?
So uh Mr Otani yesterday in a 20 to 4 victory in a baseball game over the market house, Miami went six for six already.
Again, 66 games don't have those very often.
Three home runs, two doubles, two stolen bases.
And as you mentioned, 10 runs batted in, uh that is a 16 total bases for the day, 10 of the 20 runs were driven in by Hot Tai, the leadoff hitter, 10 RB I from a leadoff hitter just hilarious.
This game was just an avalanche of, of fun facts for all of this to happen at once.
You know, he's, this has been kind of a slow build, a gradual march towards this milestone.
Previously thought to be unthinkable, unfathomable, unreachable.
Remember this dude hit a walk off grand slam to get to 4040 in the same game that he got his 40th steal.
And we were like, well, that was ridiculous.
This dude is a superhero.
This dude is a movie character.
This dude is not real and then he's like I got you that was actually not even the appetizer.
You were just, you were just smelling what was to come because what we just saw on Thursday was possibly the greatest offensive performance we have ever seen in a single major league baseball game.
It is at least one of them.
And the fact that it was to get to somewhere that no player had ever reached before is overwhelming.
It is an overwhelming thing as so many things about Oana, I don't want to be a party pooper to the Marlins.
I don't know if the greatest offensive performance of all time can occur against the 2024 Marlins.
However, especially when the last one was against Vidal Bruja, right?
So like a position player.
However, however, what I really did love about last night is the talent gap between Otani and other major league baseball players was so evident, so obvious and so on display right where it was so clear that he's operating in a league of zone.