Catcher Max Stassi, in awe of Ohtani’s adjustment since he started throwing a sinker in July, said the pitch was the best it has been Saturday night against the Astros.
ANAHEIM — If anyone should now be accustomed to what Shohei Ohtani does on the mound, it should be the player who has caught almost all of his pitches this season.A day after Ohtani took his new sinker to a higher level in Saturday night’s game, Stassi said Ohtani is now doing “video game stuff.”
“Guys spent years trying to figure out how to throw a pitch, how to get a slider going,” Stassi said. “His hand placement and awareness of how to spin the ball is out of this world, literally.” Ohtani had never thrown a sinker until he busted one out in his July 6 start at Miami. He had been fooling around with it in the bullpen. After some more experimenting, he threw it six times in his Aug. 15 start against the Seattle Mariners. He didn’t use it at all in his next start, when he was pitching through a stomach virus on Aug. 21. His following start was in Toronto, and Ohtani threw five sinkers in a grueling first inning, and then he threw only one the rest of the game.
“It was definitely better,” Stassi said of the sinker. “He had better command, better feel. It’s a new pitch. That’s the story of Shohei, sometimes the first couple of things are certain way and he’ll flip the script for the second half of his outing or the next couple innings. He had a good feel for it.”
In the third inning, he threw Astros outfielder Chas McCormick a sinker that registered at 99.7 mph and had 21 inches of run, which means movement on the arm side.
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