EVERY AT-BAT: Garrett Crochet vs. Shohei Ohtani at Fenway! 🔥 | 大谷翔平ハイライト
Otani with seven home runs over his last 12 games and 37 for the year to lead the National League. He climbs in. Crochet comes home and off we go with strike one. Oh, Tomy’s actually hit better off of left-handers than he has right-handers, but this is not your typical left-handed pitcher. He’ll throw inside a lot too with two strikes and he’s just going to come after you and bully you. There’s the inside part. He’ll command the fast ball, cutter, uh, occasional sinker, and then the breaking pitches slider is really tough. 26 years old out of a small town in the Gulf, Ocean Springs, Mississippi is 1-1 to Otani is lifted in the air to deep center field. Raphael is going back onto the track. It is going to dead center field. [Applause] The 38th of the year for Show Otani is to dead center at Fenway off Garrett Crochet. Well, I said he did own him. He had four strikeouts in his first five at bats and he took a fast ball to the not the deepest part of the park. But the center fielder will tell you all you need to know as a starting pitcher when he’s just kind of sitting there looking uhoh. There are not too many guys that get it out right there in this ballpark. And for Otani, his sixth home run in his last seven games, his eighth out of his last 13. Strike on Will Smith, 0 and2. Well, a lot of the wins have come on the road for Crochet. For whatever reason, his team has not given him much run support at home. He hasn’t had many wins at home. hoping to shake that but got treated rudely on the first at bat of the game. If there’s been a time to get Crochet, it’s been the first couple innings. He sits down Will Smith for the first out of the night. First fast ball he threw to Otani was down. He missed it. And then this fast ball that he ends up hitting out of the ballpark ends up being right down the middle. thing of beauty. Zotani comes up and fouls it back. Went deep to lead off this game. 38 home runs after he hit 54 in his first season with the Dodgers. He’s on pace to pass that. And he’s pitching again. I would think at some point in this at bat a fast ball up above the zone and maybe in. That’s been where teams have most successfully gone against him. Two out of his last 24 on elevated fastball strikeouts in half those at bats. See, now that ball being down gives him a chance to hit it where the third baseman is. Now, this ball should go up. If he’s not going to go with a breaking ball, raise the fast ball even more. There’s no way that Otani can get to it. But with it being down, watch how he defensively gets on it and almost got that inside the third base line for a hit. One, two from Crochet. Otani swings and misses. There it was. Got him with a high fast ball. Crochet bounces back from the two-run first with a scoreless second. Mr. Everything’s at the plate. It makes what Kim does right there that much more important with Otani coming up here. Tying run at third. Go ahead run at first. And Otani who’s one for two in this game with a home run to lead off the game. There’s that throw and the pitch up and in. And Otani uh in this game has taken advantage of a mistake fast over the middle of the plate, but then when they got him, they got the fast ball up. We talked about it. They made the pitch. I think he’s he’s done. He’s leaving. He’s going home. Where’s he going? Just kidding. He’s going to get a He waved like he was on his way out. Going to get one of those pads. So, here’s the target when the first time when he was trying to uh get him out and see where the pitch was right down the middle. That didn’t get him out. But then look, he went higher with the target and delivered. Beat him to the barrel of the bat. All right, so tying run 90 ft away. Go ahead run at first with Kim Speed. First one from Crochet. Otani hits it. Foul. Dodgers looking for a fourth win out of their last five games. Red Sox trying to get things headed in the right direction again with his tough start to the second half. F1 from Crochet. Fouled back and it’s 0 and two. Yeah, Crochet knows he got away with one right there. He’s the the little discussion of or disgust on catching that ball. That pitch caught too much part of the plate. They tried to go up and he pulls it and gets away with it just because of the good velocity. Strikes him out on three pitches. Garrick Crochet’s sixth strike out of the game gets Otani and strands two keeping Boston ahead.
Boston Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet faced Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani 3 times in their matchup, see how it turned out!
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