Shohei Ohtani is well on his way to winning his first National League Most Valuable Player award in his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
After hitting a 455-foot moonshot on Friday night against the Los Angeles Angels, he hit another on Saturday that went a projected 459 feet. He has now homered in three consecutive games and four out of his last five games.
“It’s certainly the hottest I think we’ve seen him,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said after Friday night’s 3-2 extra-inning loss. “Taking the walks in his first two at-bats and then getting a pitch he can handle to use the big part of the field like we’ve talked about and then again to line it up the middle, he’s playing really good baseball.