Ohtani 1 hit in 7 at-bats amid 25 points ‘historical bombing’ ‘silence’…Team sets new record in 44 years

The LA Angels simply bombed the home team’s mound at Coors Field, the “grave of pitchers.” However, Shohei Otani (29) took a break.

The Angels won 25-1 with 28 hits in the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) away game against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado on the 25th (Korea Standard Time). The Angels, who lost three consecutive games, recorded 42 wins and 36 losses this season, beating the Houston Astros to second place in the American League West.

Coors Field, located at a high altitude of more than 1600m above sea level, is a stadium that tends to stretch far due to low air resistance. This often leads to batting battles. The Angels, who lost 4-7 in the previous day’s game, blocked their home team Colorado well and swung a huge blow.

The Angels scored the first run with David Fletcher’s two-run timely hit in the top of the second inning with a bases loaded with two hits and a hit. Since then, he has failed to score additional points as follow-up hitters have stepped down with double plays and strikeouts, but the Angels’ “real attack” began in the third inning.

In the top of the third inning, the Angels, who opened the door with leadoff hitter Mike Trout hitting a solo home run, hit home runs for three consecutive batters, including No. 4 Brandon Drury and No. 5 Matt Thais. In addition, the Angels added two runs with Taylor Ward and Otani’s consecutive timely hits, followed by Hunter Renfro’s three-run double and Mickey Moniac’s two-run shot in the third inning alone.

Big innings didn’t stop at one time. The Angels scored eight points in an inning this time, with Drury, Thais, and Renfro hitting three consecutive timely hits in the fourth inning with one out and runners on first and third bases, and Moniac’s two-run double and Fletcher’s three-run shot exploded, making the score 23-0 even before the half of the game came. In the sixth and eighth innings, the Angels added one point each with an infield grounder, making it up to 25 points.

While he was at it, the Angels challenged to win a team shutout by more than 25 points, which has never been seen in modern baseball. According to Sarah Reims of MLB.com , the record was not recorded in the live ball era (after 1920), which was the beginning of modern baseball, and the shutout of more than 25 points in the major leagues was once in 1883 (28-0).

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Colorado scored a point with Brenton Doyle’s midwall solo shot, failing the Angels’ challenge for the record. However, the Angels’ 25 points set a new record for the first time in 44 years, breaking the team’s highest score (24 points) in a single game in 1979.

On this day, Renfro and Moniac each hit five hits, and four players (Drury, Renfro, Moniac, and Fletcher) had more than four RBIs. Trout, the center hitter, also hit three hits, including a home run, to some extent, freeing himself from his slump in June (batting average of 0.164, OPS of 0.658).

However, Ohtani, who had been hitting hard in June before the game (0.377 batting average, 10 home runs, and 1.356 OPS), had only one hit in seven at-bats, one RBI, and two strikeouts. Except for scoring one point with a timely hit in the third inning, he stepped down with a fly ball to left field in the first inning, a strikeout in the second inning, a straight hit to right field in the fourth inning, a grounder to second base in the sixth inning, and a double play in the eighth inning. 토토사이트