record-breaking<\/a> debut season for the Dodgers last year after undergoing his second Tommy John surgery in 2023.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cJust talking to the doctor, he was very confident that I was able to come back at full form.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Ohtani\u2019s 101.7 mph was the Dodgers\u2019 fastest of the season and the franchise\u2019s second-fastest since the beginning of 2023. Four of the seven pitches which have clocked in at over 100 mph for the Dodgers this year were thrown by Ohtani on Saturday, according to MLB.com.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere\u2019s a little bit of stress, and that\u2019s when you start seeing the hundreds and trying to bully guys,\u201d said manager Dave Roberts, per MLB.com. \u201cAnd I still thought the sweeper was good, the sinker was good, but no one knows himself better than he does. And so, again, today I thought he was still in control, and it was still good to see triple digits.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n While Saturday\u2019s pitch was the fastest of his MLB career, Ohtani has previously dialed it up to 102 mph for Team Japan during the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Remarkably, that pitch was also to Pasquantino.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201c(Ohtani) keeps doing that to me,\u201d said the Royals man on Saturday, per MLB.com. \u201cI just saw the fastest pitches he\u2019s ever thrown in his career \u2013 two of them are against me. His two hardest throws. I need to talk to him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The Japanese star allowed one hit to Bobby Witt Jr. and one walk to Maikel Garc\u00eda during the first inning at Kauffman Stadium, before sending the Royals down one-two-three in the second. In total, he threw 27 pitches, 20 of which were strikes, and struck out one batter \u2013 Jac Caglianone.\n <\/p>\n
\n At the plate, he went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts.\n <\/p>\n
\n During his five seasons with the Los Angeles Angels, Ohtani had 86 starts on the mound, going 38-19 with an ERA 3.01.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Shohei Ohtani threw the fastest pitch of his MLB career on Saturday as he continued his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-80265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}