DETROIT -- Shohei Ohtani looked his manager in the eye and in just a few words, left no doubt of his intentions.
"I'll finish it," Los Angeles Angels manager Phil Nevin recalled Ohtani telling him after the eighth inning of what became his first complete game in Major League Baseball. "He wanted it. I could see it, too."
Ohtani polished off his one-hit shutout of the Detroit Tigers, then continued his extraordinary day in the second game of Thursday's doubleheader, hitting two homers to increase his major league-leading total to 38 before leaving the game with cramps.