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Tonight in Los Angeles. Shohei Ohtani will walk to the mound to start the game. He’ll throw a 99-mph fastball, mix in a sweeper the league is hitting .078 against, a curve they have one hit off of all season. Soon enough, he’ll walk back to the dugout, grab a bat, and walk to the batter’s box to put his 96th-percentile barrel rate, 96th-percentile hard-hit rate, and 96th-percentile exit velocity to work. He’s the only player to ever be able to do all of those things at all, and he’ll do them all in one game, maybe even in one inning.
