AHAHEIM, Calif. — Some players who are struggling at the plate will punctuate a strikeout or popup by snapping their bat in half over their knee. Not Shohei Ohtani, who must have taken some kind of Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to his lumber.
The Angels' two-way star, who has gotten off to a sluggish start to 2022, opted for a more healing approach during Monday night's game against the Miami Marlins — performing CPR on his bat during the sixt inning, proper two-hand compressions and all, in the dugout, much to the delight of teammates.
"I loved it," Angels first baseman Jared Walsh said Tuesday. "And I also love that ... I don't want to speak for him, but it seems like he's gotten really comfortable in the U.S. playing. I don't know if we would have seen that in 2018. So I think it's cool that the fans are getting to see his personality like we do."
