Vinnie Pasquantino Jokingly Pressed Shohei Ohtani On Wild Fastest Pitch Stat

Shohei Ohtani is utilized to signaling stats that shot has ne'er seen before.

One of nan wildest stats nan two-way superstar has, though, is astir nan batter he's faced erstwhile throwing his hardest heat. Ohtani threw the fastest transportation of his MLB career, a 101.7-mph four-seam fastball, to Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino successful June. He threw an moreover harder pitch successful nan 2023 World Baseball Classic, which deed 102-mph, for nan fastest transportation successful his career.

Incredibly, Pasquantino was connected nan receiving extremity of Ohtani's 102-mph heater too, and he's starting to deliberation Ohtani whitethorn person a problem pinch him. He had a hilarious response to nan stat backmost successful June, and he precocious sewage to mobility nan superstar arsenic he served arsenic an MLB players ambassador astatine World Series media day.

"World Baseball Classic, we faced each other. And pinch Kansas City this year, why do you propulsion truthful difficult to me?" Pasquantino simply asked. "Why? Why do you dislike me?"

Ohtani responded that Pasquantino is simply a really bully hitter, truthful he has to. He's right, arsenic nan Royals slugger led his squad pinch 32 location runs and 113 RBIs this year. That wasn't a bully capable reply for Pasquantino though, arsenic he responded, "You propulsion excessively hard, Shohei."

Check retired nan hilarious infinitesimal below:

Ohtani and nan Dodgers are headed to nan World Series after an all-time performance from nan superstar wherever he deed 3 homers and threw six scoreless innings while striking retired 10 batters successful Game 4 of nan National League Championship Series to adjacent retired nan Brewers. He deed 55 homers successful nan regular season, down only Cal Raleigh (60) and Kyle Schwarber (56).

On nan mound, Ohtani had a 2.87 ERA successful 14 starts and 47 innings sounded pinch 62 strikeouts successful his return to pitching this year. He's won some of his postseason starts frankincense far, punching retired 19 successful 12 innings. He has 5 playoff homers this year, too, nan astir extracurricular of Blue Jays prima Vladimir Guerrero Jr. pinch six.

Ohtani is doing things ne'er seen before. Hopefully he has it successful his bosom to return it a spot easier connected Pasquantino adjacent season.

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