Shohei Ohtani is UNBELIEVABLE 🤯🔥 

Man... Ohtani is really making Mookie Run a lot!!

A Japanese samurai with two swords.

This kid is a monster. How fun it must be to see him live! ❤

I just love the way he carries himself on the field. Focused, Respectful, and as lighthearted as you can be while competing. I'm a lifelong Pete Rose fan and Bar None He has the sweetest swing ever, especially with how quick his hands are through the zone. Love Griffeyjr but. That's just batting. His Speed and Base running is just fun to watch. It's not fair at all to anyone who has ever played bball that with all that; He is also a legitimate Ace with 5 pitches including a 100+ heater. Incredible Month!!! He just keeps on doing the unbelievable.

Shotime a beast. Talent+physical gifts+healthy obsession. Dude hits, runs, AND throws...smh...thats unfair.

Had the pleasure here in So Cal of seeing him with The Angels and now again all his games televised

What's scary is Ohtani is a perennial All-Star and MVP contender even if he doesn't pitch. That's crazy. It wouldn't surprise me if he someday wins the MVP, Cy Young, and Hank Aaron award all in the same year.

The best looking baseball player ever. If he stays healthy, watch out. If this team doesn’t win 110 games and the WS, it won’t b his fault. Gotta love my fellow Asian professionals🏆👊🏽👍🏽

1:09 is him who is starting to get MVP time again.

Ohtani a hitting machine 😮

He's always been this good for the Angels for the last 6 yrs. Why are you just noticing it now? Bandwagon fans are all over the place.

Why do Otani's batted balls fly so far despite his seemingly light swing? Ohtani's hitting form looks quite different from that of many other major leaguers who swing with the power of their upper arms. Ohtani's swing form is unique in that there is not much power in his upper arms or upper body. The three characteristics of Ohtani's swing are what we see. (1) Natural dynamic vision to see the movement of the ball, (2) A stable and smooth swing trajectory that does not shake his body axis due to his overwhelming strength of his torso, lower body, legs, and hips, (3) Instantly finds the best timing for hitting the ball and captures the timing with certainty. These three things are performed with a big body that has been trained through diet and training for the past 10 years. As a result, he can hit a moving ball as far with a steady and efficient swing as if it were a driver shot of a stationary golf ball. Ohtani's hitting style is characterized by his ability to instantly find the optimal sweet spot for a pitch coming into the hitting zone, and to ensure that he hits the ball just right. His swing appears stable, smooth, and unshakeable, with no effort until the follow-through, when he captures the best timing to ensure that he hits the ball at the right moment. Despite this, the ball flies a long way. This is because the power generated by the swing trajectory is efficiently concentrated on a single point on the ball without waste and converted into the ball's flying power. Ohtani is able to hit the ball this way because, first, he has an unshakeable torso axis and strong legs and lower body, and second, he has good dynamic vision, which is the reason for his excellent pitch selection.（His good eye for the ball, which is the result of his natural dynamic vision.） He trains not only his upper body but also his lower body intensively, so that his legs and back, core, and axis are stable when he swings, and his body does not shake with the force of the swing. This is due to the strength of his well-trained legs and back muscles. If we compare Shohei Ohtani's swing with that of other sluggers, focusing on the relationship between the upper and lower body, we can see a significant difference during the swing. Many players swing with their upper bodies with great force and hit the ball, but when they follow through, their lower bodies, which are supported by an open stride, are defeated by the rotational force of the swing of the upper body, which has a longer trajectory than the stride, and in many cases their feet flop or their lower bodies are jolted by the swing. However, when looking at the follow-through of Otani's swing after hitting a just-meet shot, the lower body hardly swings at all, and the body axis remains stable, smooth, and clean. Naturally, like other hitters, Otani's upper arm movement should be greater and stronger than that of his lower body, but the overwhelming muscular strength of his lower body, including the length of his legs, absorbs and supports the impact of the swing trajectory of his upper body. When we compare the upper and lower body movements, we see that his lower body strength overwhelmingly outweighs his upper body strength. This is what seems to mechanically affect the distance of the ball when Ohtani hits it. (Ohtani: lower body strength >= upper body swing, other hitters: upper body swing >= lower body) In his case, being a pitcher from a young age may have contributed to the strength of his torso and legs and back. To reduce the burden on their overworked arms and shoulders, pitchers intentionally focus on training to strengthen the lower body, including the legs and hips, which stabilize the trunk and axis. In his case, more than 10 years of training as a pitcher since his boyhood may have formed his overwhelming core stability and leg and hip strength, and may have had a positive effect on his hitting form. If so, this may be the result of his pursuit of becoming a pitcher and hitter at the same time, a dual role that is very difficult to achieve. Another factor that may have contributed to his hitting is the way Japanese high school baseball education is conducted. Japanese high school baseball hitting instruction often adopts the "meat hitting" method. The bodies of Japanese high school students are often thin and without muscle strength, as they have not yet fully matured. In teaching these skinny and weak students to hit the ball, they often teach them to hit the ball at the best time, rather than hitting it with their upper arm strength. In other words, they teach them the "meat hitting" method, in which the ball is surely caught at the sweet spot and sent flying far away by its repulsive force. This approach is similar to the swing theory of hitting long shots in golf. In other words, this method has much in common with the theory of hitting the ball on the club's sweet spot and converting the acceleration of the club head into the force of the ball's flight with a stable swing trajectory that does not sway the axis. In Japanese youth baseball, a coach often uses this phrase when coaching skinny, ineffective players, "Don't swing hard for home runs. Aim for a single hit first, and think that a home run is an accidental extension of a single hit (when the conditions are right). The important thing is to hit the center of the ball with high accuracy and without missing the best timing." He is now putting these theories into practice in the MLB with a body much larger than that of the average Japanese boy, which he has built up through self-discipline. Accurately analyzing Ohtani's hitting technique is tantamount to finding a methodology to make the ball fly farther and more efficiently. He has such a reasonable and efficient body movement. And it is not a movement that is beyond human beings, it is just a phenomenon that is truly possible by human in this planet.

I been a Dodger fan for over 30 years and he is by far the most talented player i remember watching. One of the best ive ever seen already TBH. When uts all said and done hes gonna break a lot of records

he is the pitcher 😂😂😂

How the heck is betts stuck at third when ohtani made it to second base? How slow is Betts running?

Excellent video Great job Thanks for posting

He is really fun to watch. I keep watching his performance on youtube unknowingly.

ダイジェストで見ると ベッツがいつも走っている。

This foo just flicks the bat with precision and that ball flies ..dope ass bat control..not a swoll ass dude .crazy

He plays yhe game like a kid lol. Just seems yo always be having fun and hustling

He’s back!

Could this hulk of a man be the coming of the third Bash Brother !

Idk how we got him or can afford him lol but i happy as hell about it. Just wish he was able to pitch this yr. The whole staff is injured lol

only problem is he runs too fast. 😂

Traemos un super equipo. Puro Dodgers raza..

I'm not enough. I WANT MORE!!!

Can only imagine saying one thing in my head before pitching to ohtani… “this fucking guy”

It’s like he bats with an aluminum bat.

He makes the game look easy. It is really. I never understand why batters swing at stuff that is not even close to a strike. Yes, they have tendencies, but still. I hit over 400 in high school for a reason. I never get behind in the count. I make the pitcher throw a hitters pitch. I never swung at anything outside the plate or high/low. Also, watched every pitch a pitcher threw and memorize their tendencies. If they are at 3 balls and 0 strikes, what do they do? If they throw an easy over the plate pitch, then I would memorize that. When I went 3 and 0, I remembered what they threw next. So I sat on it. Sure enough, the pitch was right down the pipe and I slaughtered it for a dinger. I was unpredictable as a batter and drove the count. Pete Rose was my favorite batter of all time. He reminds me of me. Pete Rose was possibly the best hitter in baseball with his style and his base running fantastic. The Big Red Machine was my favorite team to watch every chance I could. Pete squashed the batter's zone so you had to pitch a perfect pitch to him for him to swing. Watch his video's if you want to learn how to hit. Otani is also in that crowd. He's tough to pitch to. I really like his style. He simply makes contact and doesn't try to do to much out else. That's the way you do it. No secrets to hitting.

I want to point this out, so you can't un-see it. Watch various ball players in a game. Strike out, foul one off etc. Then watch Ohtani. After every swing, he practices and re-enforces his swing plane and fundamentals. Especially if the previous swing didn't achieve what he wanted. He hits lots. He hits lots of dingers. Watch him in the box, and see how many hits he thinks he missed and should have had. I think he needs a raise :)

Why is he so good?

During swinging, the upper body moves through a wider range of motion than the lower body, including the length of the bat. In other words, their lower body has to support the greater force produced by the upper body, otherwise the body axis will be blurred.　As a result, impact on the ball is also reduced, affecting distance. The strength of the rotational force generated by this upper body in many hitters causes their body axis to sway during the follow-through. Unlike other hitters, Otani's lower body hardly sways at this point. That is how strong his lower body is and how well it can absorb shock. Mechanically, it is very efficient in sending the ball farther. However, this must be a great burden on his legs and back. The pain in his armpits last year and the tension in his lower back this year may be the result of this strain. Is being both a pitcher and a hitter putting more stress on his back than other players? Or does being both a pitcher and a fielder at the same time work in a positive way so that the pressure on his back is not concentrated in one place, but rather distributed, so as not to break his back? When he finishes his entire baseball career, it will be clear which is correct. It has been rare in his past career for him to concentrate on being a hitter for an entire year. Therefore, common sense cannot determine whether it will be a positive or actually a negative thing for him. It is important to remember that Ohtani who has strong legs and back muscles and a lower body that he is today because he has been both a pitcher and a hitter at the same time.

STOP IT!!!!! HATERS CANNOT ACCEPT THIS!!!!🤣

The whole team is unbelievable. To have Ohtani sandwiched by Betts and Freeman is unfair to the other teams. Then you examine their pitching and you are blown away again. Only Steinbrenner would have been willing to compete financially with the Dodgers for talent but his son won't.

Make the baseball smaller so it's harder for Ohtani to hit it! It's way too big he can count the stitches on the ball as it runs into his bat!

i BET he is

The Gambler love that nickname.

Is Ohtani gonna pitch this year?