There is seemingly no limit to what Shohei Ohtani can do on a baseball field, with his performances turning into nightly journeys into the annals of baseball history. But what the incomparable Angels star was able to do during a doubleheader on Thursday against the Tigers somehow raised the bar on his growing list of accomplishments.
Ohtani took the mound in the opening act of the twin billing and did something that even he had never done before by notching his first career shutout. He held the Detroit lineup to just one hit in Los Angeles’s 6–0 victory, striking out eight on a season-high 111 pitches.
If there was any downside to the showing, it was that the league leader in home runs went 0-for-5 at the plate. In typical Ohtani fashion, he quickly atoned for the goose egg, blasting two homers in the nightcap as the Angels swept the day with an 11–4 win.
