Wednesday night, two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber threw a no-hitter for the New York Yankees, the first one from any pinstripe pitcher since David Cone's perfect game in 1999 and the second no-hitter thrown this week.
That's a tough act to follow. It's difficult to upstage the Yankees most nights, let alone one when the discourse varied so drastically from ranking this among other great Yankee performances to discussing what is so wrong with baseball that no one can hit anymore.
But then Shohei Ohtani took the mound on the West Coast, and the discussion around Kluber's performance momentarily took a back seat as the baseball world watched to see what the Los Angeles Angels phenom would do next.