Key Moments of the Game
Home runs, go-ahead hits, and Japanese-vs-Japanese duels in order
- Shohei Ohtani's bottom-of-the-1st homer (104.6 mph, 381 ft)
- Pages answers right back with a homer to tie it up in the 1st
- Rojas' 9th-inning double brings home a run for the fight till the end
Early Game
Man, I was already too hyped from the bottom of the 1st, my heart couldn't take it. First pitch fouled off, then a fastball right down the middle, and Ohtani crushed it to left-center — 104.6 mph, 29-degree launch angle, 381 feet! WOOOOOOOO!! I literally yelled in front of the TV. Coming out swinging with a bomb like that right away, that's just so Ohtani. And then right in that same bottom half, Pages goes and hits one to left-center too to tie it up 2-2! That 1st inning energy was up there with the best of the season.
Key Moments
But man, it got rough from there... Moreno had already given Arizona the lead in the top of the 1st, and then in the 4th Tovar hit a monster one (105.4 mph, 429 feet) to pull them back ahead again. Ohtani also went down swinging on a perfect 92.7 mph four-seamer to end the 3rd, and in the 5th he squared up a 97.7 mph ball but it stayed at a 24-degree angle and got caught right at the center fielder — man, that one really stung. If that ball had dropped when the Dodgers were trying to claw back, ugh, just thinking about it. But there were still two outs left, so I was trying to stay positive and keep watching.
Ken-chan's Take
From the 5th inning on, Tovar and Perdomo just kept chipping away — 2-5, 2-7, 2-8 — the gap kept widening, and honestly I was just sitting there with a beer sighing at the TV. Tovar got him again in the 8th, 2-9, and yeah, that was a tough one to sit through. Ohtani also faced a nasty 98 mph sinker from Garcia in the 7th but ended up chasing a sweeper for strike three. Ouch... but hey, he already hit that huge homer in the 1st, so I'll call today a win for him. Get it back together for the next game, big guy, not the next at-bat — the next game.
Then in the bottom of the 9th, Rojas doubled to left-center (98.1 mph, 284 feet) to bring one more run home, making it 3-9 as the game wrapped up. The loss stings, but Ohtani's 1st inning homer and Pages' shot that tied it up even for just a moment — that rush was 100% real, so I'll take the good with the bad today. Tomorrow, resetting the mind and cheering them on again.
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