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Andy Nesbitt

Shohei Ohtani Came So Close to Getting Hit in the Head and MLB Fans Were Furious

What Shohei Ohtani has done for Major League Baseball so far in just his brief career has been nothing short of astounding. 

He hits mind-boggling home runs. He throws ridiculously cool pitches. He even runs really well along the base paths

The man can simply do it all. 

What fans don’t need is for Ohtani to have a pitcher hit him in the head with a pitch. That almost happened in Monday night’s Angels-A’s game in Anaheim but thankfully he was able to get out of the way of a fastball at the very last moment. 

Check out this very scary moment: 

That scream! 

Here's another look at it: 

That was waaaaaaaaaaay too close. 

MLB fans were not happy with A’s pitcher Ken Waldichuk:

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