Just when the baseball world thought it had seen it all from Shohei Ohtani, the superstar had another trick up his sleeve as he called his own pitches in the Angels' season opener against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
Ohtani started his second consecutive Opening Day for the Angels and he did so by using the PitchCom device, with a bit of a twist. Instead of the catcher relaying the pitch calls to Ohtani, now it is the other way around.
The 2021 AL MVP keeps the device under his jersey, close to his left shoulder, according to ESPN's Tim Keown.