There can't be too many words written about Shohei Ohtani.
Not after last night's magnificent, magical, marvelous performance for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night in the clinching Game 4 of the NLCS.
In case you missed it somehow: Ohtani pitched six scoreless innings, struck out 10 batters and hit three home runs.
And now here's the stat of all stats: No player in MLB history had ever had a career with both a 10-strikeout game and a three-homer game, according to OptaStats.
Ohtani did it all in one game.
Babe Ruth feels like the guy who could've done it, but a look back at that era shows Ruth was much more likely to strike out one or two guys in a game than five, let alone double digits.
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The only other way this could've happened is if some pitcher hitting before the DH happened to have a three-HR game at some point while also having one potent strikeout game. Or, like, if Kerry Wood had lucked into a game with three home runs.
But no, none of that has happened. Because hitting is hard, and pitching is hard. Doing them both, at this level?
It should legitimately be impossible.
But that's what Ohtani does, the impossible.
He did it again Friday, in maybe the single greatest baseball game ever played.
He had a whole career in one night.
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