Shohei Ohtani is struggling.
You wouldn’t be able to tell if you looked at his numbers. And you wouldn’t be able to tell if you watched his back-to-back home runs on Tuesday and Wednesday.
However, over a much longer stretch of play, Ohtani isn’t exactly playing like himself.
Through May 16, when Ohtani got hit with a pickoff attempt against the Cincinnati Reds and suffered a bruised hamstring, Ohtani was slashing .360/.430/.669 with 12 home runs, 30 RBIs, and an OPS of 1.099 in 44 games.
Since May 17, Ohtani is slashing .