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Former SI MLB editor Connor Grossman and I decided to go to last night’s Yankees-Angels game to watch Shohei Ohtani pitch (and hit, obviously). Connor texted his buddy Sam Blum, the Angels beat writer for The Athletic, to make sure we were correct about when Ohtani was scheduled to pitch. We bought the tickets Tuesday night, only for Wednesday’s game to get postponed due to rain to yesterday afternoon as part of a split-admission doubleheader. And … Ohtani would now be pitching the afternoon game instead of the night cap.
We were pretty bummed that we would miss Ohtani’s double duty. And it became even more disappointing when we did our best Mike Trout impression (that we could possibly do, anyway, considering we are not gifted ballplayers) and looked at the weather report, which showed torrential thunderstorms for most of the night.
