The Shohei Ohtani circuit on Bobblehead Night keeps undefeated dodgers

Los Angeles – They are impressive because of their superstars. Exhausting because of their depth. Crushing in their ability to ensure that even the most important deficits decrease. Apparently unbeatable.

But the Los Angeles dodgers are the biggest spectacle in sport because of Shohei Ohtani.

There may not be a better team in baseball than the Dodgers, which, at 8-0, are at the best start for a champion in title of the World Series. And there may not be any more appropriate superstar to meet the moment than Ohtani, the reigning MVP which attracted crowds in the thousands of hours before the first launch for its Bobblehead and sent more than 50,000 fans to the Dodger Stadium Home Extrato with a Home Run, there is a 6-5 victory against the brave of Atlanta after having faced a deficit of 5-0.

The Dodgers have found ways to even win the night when it seems that they are ready to fight. They put themselves in this massive gap because of errors and errors, as if to recover a challenge to accelerate a return victory for another night. They hardly played perfectly during these eight undefeated games, requiring a return to win in six. They remained relentless in their ability to pierce because baseball sought to close the door on it.

Even with that, Wednesday evening let them shake their heads while Ohtani watered the bases, raising his right fist in the air while the dodgers withdrew another, a more ridiculous than the previous one.

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“Tonight, I was a little stunned,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “I was stunned by the way we played. I did not recognize this club in the first two rounds. And then, just stunned, we found a way to win this match. We did not win this match.”

They won it, in part, because Max Muncy damn the torpedoes. Nothing seemed to work to Muncy for a large part of Wednesday. He made mistakes to launch in the first two heats, directly putting the dodgers in a massive hole.

The first, a launch on the width of the diamond which skidded the dirt a few meters in front of the first goal player Kiké Hernández, extended a long round for the left -handed at high price Blake Snell and pushed through the first race of Braves. The second came a round later, when he loaded a stroke of Stuart Fairchild and whipped him in the base line, causing almost a collision between Fairchild and Hernández and triggering a three -point round. The throws, Muncy said, “I’m going to haunt myself.”

His continuing on marble struggles did not seem to appease his mind. While the dodgers dismissed the five -point deficit, Muncy struggled to acclimatize to the new trend in baseball. The “torpedo” battle in the shape of a bowling alley sparked enough attention in last week, and Muncy had struggled to fight powerful enough for the funky stick was worth it. He had only recorded two strokes in the first week of the season, so when the expedition of bats arrived at the Dodger stadium in time for Wednesday’s match, he brought one in the stick cage with him.

“It might look like the most disgusting thing I have ever had in my hands, but sometimes that’s what you need to work,” said Muncy this week after placing the order.

The swings worked fairly well in the cage he took the bats in the game. Then he went without blow to his first three strikers. In the last one, a withdrawal against the left -hander Dylan Lee, Muncy noticed that his bat was not what he thought that his swing was supposed to do. The distribution of different weights in the bat takes some time to get used to it.

“My swings felt good tonight, but just a little outside,” said Muncy. “So the last At-Bat, I decided to return to my regular bat.”

With the 5-3 score, the equally races were on the basis of the eighth round while Muncy was walking around the rack for his old bat – the one that is silver, familiar and swung her season on the right track.

He faced a change at the top of the area from Raisel Iglesias narrower, just on the barrel. He found the gap for a double, equaling the game while the Dodgers rallied from this five -point deficit.

“It was not the torpedo bat,” said Roberts with a little laugh.

The night had exposed what some assessors through sport have speculated could be the way to go to the Dodgers – thanks to their defensive alignment built to optimize offensive production rather than covering the land. The two Muncy errors allowed the Braves to jump on it, and the lighting of the second round was extended when Andy Pages badly tried a ball in the central field which slammed its glove for a double score.

“Tonight, obviously, it was the worst match we played,” said Roberts.

But the week preceding showed what was true for the dodgers a year ago: they are apparently inevitable, and no lead could be safe against them.

They had lowered the deficit long before Muncy changed his wood. Tommy Edman and Michael Comforto each have circuit blows to reduce the advance to 5-3, and the Dodgers have gradually continued to build sleeves against the enclosure of the Braves’ victory.

“I think some teams, we can tend to try to hit like a five -point home run,” said Edman. “But we just do a good job to take it in the stick by the blow and understanding that we have a deep programming, and we are able to set up a large round at any time.”

Another chance arose when Comforto evolved a simple in the right field to the eighth. When Will Smith worked Count 2-0 against the Daybel Hernández lift, it prompted Atlanta manager, Brian Snitker against this Dodgers range, it is an intimidating task.

Smith finished a walk. Muncy found the gap. And when the programming returned the next round, the scene was defined for the reigning MVP.

“For me, when entering the Channel, tied in this last At-Bat, I just felt like I had a good blow to win,” said Ohtani through the interpreter Will Ireton.

Having Ohtani certainly helps. He made it a toy propensity with the most shy oscillations. He has marked history with gargantuan performances at stake. He marked his career stages with circuits. To spend Wednesday, the first of a handful of nights of Bobblehead (the quantity of which apparently did not drop the frenzy that comes with each), looked like small potatoes. It also seemed inevitable.

“You don’t like to see him coming at any time, really,” said Snitker.

Ohtani did not wait for the opposition. When the first change of Iglesias remained standing above the plate, he swung. The Dodger stadium shook before the ball arrived on the seats of the central field.

“He continues to penetrate these situations and these moments when you expect the unthinkable of him,” said Muncy, “and he rarely disappoints.”

“Everyone knew it,” said Snell. “We knew. That’s exactly what he does. “

This is exactly what dodgers do. They are one of the two undefeated teams left in baseball (San Diego is the other), still on the top of a championship a year ago. The idea of ​​162-0 is beyond the magnitude, but at least this time, Roberts had to laugh that the possibility was a closer game.

Will they finish undefeated? Beyond, certainly not. But there is that.

“I think we are unbeatable every night,” said Roberts.

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