Ohtani has 10 strikeouts in six shutout innings but Angels lose to A’s
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani struck out 10 over six scoreless innings in his season debut coming off the World Baseball Classic title earlier than Oakland capitalized as soon as he exited with Aledmys Díaz rallying the Athletics on a tiebreaking single within the eighth for a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday evening.
Esteury Ruiz singled and Tony Kemp hit a tying double to begin the rally towards Aaron Loup (0-1).
Ohtani referred to as his personal pitches utilizing the Pitchcom know-how as he additionally did throughout spring coaching given his full repertoire of choices and the addition of the pitch clock this yr.
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Rookie catcher Logan O’Hoppe singled within the fifth to interrupt up a scoreless sport and put the Angels forward. Then Los Angeles proper fielder Hunter Renfroe made a tremendous no-look catch for the opening day spotlight reels.
Ohtani raised his arms in delight from the mound and Renfroe may solely grin ear to ear after robbing Oakland’s Jace Peterson with a defensive gem to begin the underside of the fifth. Running backward towards the wall, Renfroe reached his glove up and made the seize with out his eyes monitoring the ball and landed simply in entrance of the warning monitor.
“WHAT WAS THAT” the Angels posted on Twitter with a shocked emoji face.
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Ohtani — unfazed after strolling Kemp on 4 pitches to begin his outing — pumped his first when he retired Ramón Laureano on a 101-mph pitch to finish the fourth. He walked three and allowed two hits.
Ohtani joined Dylan Cease, Gerrit Cole and Logan Webb as 4 pitchers with double-digit strikeouts, matching 1970 for essentially the most on opening day since 1901.
New A’s reliever Trevor May (1-0) pitched the eighth for the win. Dany Jimenez earned the save after placing the tying run aboard on a stroll.
Gio Urshela struck out swinging to finish the seventh after a 10-pitch battle with Oakland reliever Domingo Acevedo.
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OPENER FUNK
The Angels prolonged their franchise-record dropping streak on opening day to 6 straight, falling to 2-7 all-time in openers towards the A’s and 0-6 in Oakland. The A’s have received 5 straight season openers within the collection.
O’HOPPE’S DAY
O’Hoppe, the membership’s lone rookie on the opening day roster, turned the youngest catcher to begin opening day in franchise historical past at 23 years, 49 days. Buck Rodgers was the earlier youngest at 23 years, 237 days previous in 1962. O’Hoppe additionally turned the primary rookie catcher to begin opening day for the Angels since Bengie Molina in 2000.
In the stands cheering O’Hoppe had been his dad and mom, Angela and Michael, twin sister Mel and a gaggle of shut associates.
UP NEXT
RHP Shintaro Fujinami makes his main league debut for the A’s on Saturday. He and Ohtani had been a part of the identical 2012 draft class in Japan. Fujinami pitched the previous 10 seasons with the Central League’s Hanshin Tigers.
Los Angeles counters with lefty Patrick Sandoval.
