Shohei Ohtani Is Doing The Impossible
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Major League Baseball's current home run leader is also... one of its best starting pitchers? It might seem too strange to be believed, but Shohei Ohtani is changing everything we thought we knew about what's possible in professional baseball. Today, we're joined by The Athletic's Jayson Stark who tells us about some of the Angels superstar's most impressive achievements and whether or not he can sustain his two-way play for an entire 162 game season.
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| 0:07.0 | Hi there, Wondry listeners. Hannah and Sruti here from TrueCram Podcast Redhanded. |
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| 0:46.0 | Where quarter of the way through the MLB season and so far Angel star Shohe O'Connie has been lighting people up on the mound. |
| 1:00.0 | Got him. For Shohe O'Connie tonight. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, and he's also leaving the league in home runs. |
| 1:13.0 | Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, Shohe O'Connie, what can you do? |
| 1:19.0 | Today, the athletics Jason Stark breaks down just how unprecedented O'Connie's performance the season has been |
| 1:26.0 | and how he's changing what we think is possible on a major league diamond. |
| 1:31.0 | Is it the best players in the sport and he's better than almost all of them at both these things he does? |
| 1:39.0 | So when you see him doing things that you have literally never seen, my mind is blown every time. |
| 1:49.0 | I can't believe I'm watching what I'm watching. |
| 1:52.0 | From Wondering in the athletic, Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Wednesday, May 19th, and this is the lead. |
| 2:03.0 | So Jason, we've got 162 games season fans are back in the stands. |
| 2:07.0 | Stadiums are selling absurd food concoctions again. |
| 2:10.0 | How have you been enjoying this somewhat normal baseball season? |
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