Stop me if you heard this one before: Alex Bregman walks off the Dodgers to give the Astros a dramatic come-from-behind victory. No, this isn’t 2017; this is 2024.
Talk about a roller coaster of a game. To start, Ronel Blanco didn’t have his best stuff, requiring 49 pitches to obtain his first six outs. Shohei Ohtani blasted a 92 mph fastball for a (thankfully) solo 443-foot home run with a 118.7 mph exit velocity. While Blanco’s velocity and spin rate were on par or higher with his season averages, in addition to nine strikeouts this evening, the right-hander has nearly matched his previous career-high for innings pitched in a season (125 1⁄3 innings in 2023).