LOS ANGELES – Imagine a player recording four extra-base hits in a World Series game for the first time in over a century, then walking five times in the same game to make it a perfect 9-for-9 single. And then realize that the performance was by far the weaker of that player’s past two home games.
Well, that goes for Shohei Ohtani, who had his best game ever the week before in his previous game at Dodger Stadium, hitting three home runs in three official at-bats and recording the same on-base percentage of 1.000, while also striking out ten and pitching six shutout innings.
In those two games – the deciding game of the NLCS and the first Dodgers home game in the World Series – Ohtani has an on-base percentage of 1.000, a slugging percentage of 3.429 and an OPS of 4.429. Add in an ERA of 0.00 and they represent the two best consecutive home games ever played, or very likely ever will be played.
Some claim that Ohtani is the greatest talent since Babe Ruth, but they have no arguments for that. And even Ruth didn’t throw and hit at the same time that often. Ruth is really the only one close as an all-around player comp, and he did it in the segregated era. There’s no other real comp, but if you break down what he does into categories, here’s what I came up with for Comps:
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