Ohtani ‘Awkward’, ‘One Hit’ Stake in LAA’s 28 Hit Bombing, “I can’t believe I scored such a large number of points without MVP performance.”

Ohtani Shohei (29, Los Angeles Angels) stopped the good trend in June for a while. However, unlike the individual players, the team made Otani feel awkward by escaping consecutive losses and scoring a large number of points that will go down in history.

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.

On this day, the Angels’ batters hit the Colorado mound with 28 hits. Hunter Renfro and Mickey Moniac each hit five hits, and four players (Renfro, Moniac, Brandon Drury, and David Fletcher) scored more than four RBIs. Central hitter Mike Trout 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).

In particular, he scored 21 points in just two innings in the third and fourth innings. With the start of the third inning, Trout-Drury-Matt Thais hit three consecutive home runs, and since then, he has scored as many as 13 points in the third inning alone by combining Hunter Renfro’s three-run double and Mickey Moniac’s two-run shot. In the fourth inning, the Angels also made eight big innings in an inning, with Drury, Thais and Renfro hitting three consecutive timely hits with one out and runners on first and third bases, and Moniac’s two-run double and Fletcher’s three-run burst.

However, eight of the nine starting hitters recorded multi-hits, but there was only one player who had only one hit, so it was Otani. He only had one hit, one RBI, and two strikeouts in seven at-bats, but except for one run with a timely hit in the third inning, he stepped down with a fly ball to left field in the first inning, a straight hit and strikeout to right field in the fourth inning, a grounder to second base in the sixth inning, and a double play in the eighth inning.

Prior to the game, Ohtani had a monster stat of 0.377 batting average, 10 home runs, and 1.356 OPS in June alone. On top of that, he hit three hits, including his 25th home run of the season, in the previous day’s game, so the silence of the day was even more unexpected. 스포츠토토티비

According to OPTA, a U.S. sports statistics company, this is the first game in Major League history that has scored more than 25 points and recorded less than one hit even though a former MVP was included in the lineup. Otani won the American League unanimous MVP award in 2021. However, Trout, who also won the MVP three times (2014, 2016, 2019 season), hit three hits.

The Angels also set several records on the day. The 25 points was a new record for the first time in 44 years, breaking the team’s highest score (24 points) in a single game set in 1979. Also, according to Sarah Reims of MLB.com , the 24-point victory was tied for third place with the highest score difference ever since 1900, making it the highest score difference in 16 years since the Texas Rangers (27 points difference, 30-3 victory) in 2007. While at it, the Angels tried to shut down the game by more than 25 points, which has never appeared in the live ball era (since 1920), but Colorado scored a point with Brenton Doyle’s midwall solo shot in the bottom of the eighth inning, failing to challenge the Angels’ record.