Marcus Semien ruined the fantasy, but only for the day. The seventh-inning single by the Oakland Athletics shortstop felt more like a delay of the inevitable than a death of a dream.
It's silly to predict any pitcher will do something that has happened only 23 times in major league history, but that speaks to how dominant Ohtani was in his first start at Angel Stadium, as well as how the 23-year-old has already expanded the public's collective sense of what is possible in baseball.
Ohtani had pitched against the Athletics in Oakland only seven days earlier, which was supposed to work to his opponents' advantage.