Major League Baseball Angels' Shohei Ohtani entered the game against the Royals as the starting pitcher and No. 2 designated hitter, throwing seven scoreless innings and striking out 7, including six in a row, to earn his third win of the season.
When Ohtani started against the Red Sox on the 17th, he walked off the mound with only 2 pitches in two innings after the game was interrupted for a long time due to rain, so he started the game against the Royals in Anaheim on the 31st.
Ohtani, who has given up few runs with a 21.3 ERA so far, struck out three in a row in the first inning with his fastball and sharp changeup.
In the third inning, the first batter got his first hit, but the next batter didn't allow a run on a shortstop double play with a 0.86-kilogram fastball, the fastest of the day.
In the next four innings, he pinch-hit for first and second base with one out and turned into a double play.
After that, Ohtani picked up momentum and walked off the mound in the sixth inning with six consecutive strikeouts from first base with no outs to protect a two-run lead.
Ohtani threw 1 pitches in seven innings, allowing just two hits, two foreballs and 3 strikeouts to keep the team scoreless with a 3.161 ERA.
On the other hand, the batter had a strikeout in the first at-bat of the first inning, a centerliner in the second at-bat of the third inning, and a double play in the third at-bat of the sixth inning with one out on first base, but in the fourth at-bat of the eighth inning, he caught the changeup ball of the first pitch well and carried it to center field to mark his first hit in three games.
He went 1-for-1 in the game and went 3-for-2 with a batting average.
The Angels ran away with a 6-1 deficit to end their losing streak at 3, and Ohtani earned his third win of the season.
Otani "Thrown well-balanced"
Shohei Otani, who pitched well in the third inning, said, "I'm glad that I was able to return to my home base from the trip and play the first match. I'm glad I was able to throw well in the third round against the opposing batting line, mixing curves."
On the other hand, batting said, "It's hard to get a good hit, so I think I'm being patient now."
Commenting on the team's 3-3 record with the team's victory on the day, Ohtani said, "For the time being, I will do my best to give my savings of about 10, and I will do my best to increase it even more by the time the summer comes."
There are also player dolls that resemble popular movie characters
The game was called "Star Wars Night" and featured comical images of players portraying themselves as characters from popular movies on a large screen in the stadium.
At last year's event, instead of a bat, a doll of Ohtani holding a lightsaber sword that appears in the movie was distributed, and this year, Trout's swinging doll with a lightsaber was distributed to the first 2,5000 people.