大谷くんの快進撃が止まらない。
先発したアスレチックス戦で、99マイル（159.3km）越えの速球を12回投げ、最高時速は99.6マイル（160.3km）に達した。昨季、メジャー全体の投球数のなかで、時速99マイルを越えたのはわずか0.51パーセントだという。
ピッチングのすばらしいフォーム（写真が！）
Angels’ Shohei Ohtani homers for third consecutive game USA Today
Shohei Ohtani is taking quite nicely to life in the major leagues.
For the third consecutive game, the Los Angeles Angels’ much-hyped rookie blasting a home run, hitting a solo shot in his first at-bat against the Oakland Athletics in the second inning on Friday.
Ohtani teed off on a 2-0 pitcher from Athletics right-hander Daniel Gossett. The ball landed just to the left of center field in the Angel Stadium rock mountain.
Ohtani is only the fourth player since 1920 with a win as a pitcher and two HRs as a hitter — including one in his first Angel Stadium at-bat — in his team’s first seven games. SEAN M. HAFFEY/GETTY IMAGES
- ＜エンゼルス・アスレチックス＞２回２死、中越えソロを放ちベンチに迎えられて笑顔を見せる大谷 ＞
4/9の投手第２戦に向けて調整中（らしい）
さあ、これからどこまでいけるのか、楽しみと心配も・・・
4/9 大谷くんは、今日も世界中をびっくりさせた。もう少しで完全試合だった！！
ANAHEIM – Shohei Ohtani could not reward Los Angeles Angels fans with a home run on Sunday, as they had probably grown used to from his three previous appearances in a home uniform.
They would have to settle for a brilliant pitching performance instead.
Making his first start at Angel Stadium, the Japanese two-way sensation retired the first 19 batters he faced before yielding a one-out single in the seventh to Marcus Semien as the Angels defeated the Oakland Athletics 6-1.
In front of a rare April sellout crowd of 44,742, Ohtani unleashed a fastball that touched 100 mph and paired it with a devilish splitter and an effective slider. He overwhelmed A’s hitters from the get-go, striking out the first three batters he faced and 10 of the first 15.
“That’s as good a game,” says Angels manager Mike Scioscia, “as you could ever see pitched.”
“The kid’s obviously incredibly talented. He totally lives up to the hype,” says A’s leadoff hitter Matt Joyce. “A pitcher that sits 95-98 with some life to his ball, and then he has a splitter and a slow curveball he can flip in for a strike when he wants to, and then a slider, he’s got the total arsenal.
“He had good command of his fastball,” says Angels catcher Martin Maldonado, “so the hitters felt pressure to swing at the splitter.”
Ohtani, 23, has fashioned a 2.08 ERA through his first two starts, with 18 strikeouts, two walks and four hits allowed in 13 innings.
And after ditching his high leg-kick for a toe-tap in his hitting stance late in the spring, Ohtani has been a terror at the plate, going 7-for-18 with seven RBI in four games.
Ohtani has been sitting the day before and the day after he pitches, so his next chance to extend his stretch of homering in three consecutive games will come Tuesday on the road against the Texas Rangers.
The possibilities now seem endless.
Perhaps Maldonado put it best when he described Ohtani this way:
“He never looks like he’s out of place. He looks like a hitter when he’s batting and looks like a pitcher when he’s pitching. It’s impressive. We haven’t seen that before.’’
大谷君はホントにスゴイ！（2018.5.14）
大谷の活躍にマ軍地元紙が真っ青「恐ろしいほどの存在感…マウンドでは支配者」
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＜産経新聞＞ マリナーズ２－８エンゼルス（６日、シアトル）米大リーグ、エンゼルスの大谷翔平投手（２３）はマリナーズ戦に先発し、６回０／３を投げ６三振を奪うなど６安打２失点と好投し、３勝目（１敗）を挙げた。試合後、マリナーズの地元紙「シアトル・タイムズ」（電子版）はこの試合に関する記事を掲載し、好投した大谷を絶賛した。
記事ではこの日の試合について「マリナーズとそのファンは週末に大谷の素晴らしさを目撃し、同時に後悔と畏敬の入り混じった感情を呼び起こされた」とリポート。さらに「バッターボックスでは恐ろしいほどの存在感。そしてマウンドでは支配者のような姿だった」と３連戦で見せた投打“二刀流”での活躍を絶賛した。
大谷はこの日、最速１６０キロを計測するなど、捻挫した足首の影響を感じさせない投球を見せた。対戦したマ軍の主軸打者シーガーの「彼の能力は本物だ」とする談話も合わせて紹介した。マリナーズはエンゼルスと同じア・リーグ西地区で、「年に何度も顔を合わせなければならず、プレーオフのための激しい戦いになる」と、今後の戦いを見据えていた。
2018/11/14
大谷君が新人賞獲得！Great News!!
Angels’ Shohei Ohtani beats Yankees duo to win AL Rookie of the Year
Shohei Ohtani became the fourth Japanese-born player to win Rookie of the Year, as the Los Angeles Angels‘ two-way sensation beat out New York Yankees duo Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres for the American League award.
Ohtani earned 25 of 30 first-place votes to run away with the award. The other five votes went to Andujar, who finished as runner-up.
“Accomplishing something this special my first year means a whole lot to me,” Ohtani told MLB Network through a translator. “Especially, I think it means a whole lot for people that have been supporting me this whole time, so I’m really grateful.”
Ohtani joins Hideo Nomo (1995), Kazuhiro Sasaki (2000) and Ichiro Suzuki (2001) as Japanese players to be honored after his debut year in Major League Baseball. The Angels star was particularly proud to be the first from his country to win the award since Suzuki did so 17 years ago.
“[Suzuki] is someone that [Ohtani] watched ever since he was a little kid and always looked up to until this day,” said Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.
The Angels had high hopes for both Ohtani’s bat and his pitching arm, and the 24-year-old lived up to the hype in his first season with the Angels, hitting .285 with 22 home runs and a .564 slugging percentage that would have ranked fourth in the AL if he’d had enough plate appearances to qualify for the leaderboards.
Angels slugger Mike Trout lauded Ohtani in a statement released by the team.
“I want to pass along my congratulations to Shohei for this special honor,” Trout said. “It’s great to see all of his hard work and effort recognized with this very prestigious award. All of us enjoyed playing alongside and watching Shohei excel as a two-way player and make history along the way. I have no doubt the best is yet to come!”
In 51.2 innings over 10 starts, he went 4-2 with a 3.31 ERA and 63 strikeouts, flashing the ace-caliber stuff that had teams eager to sign him primarily for his ability on the mound.
The bat was more impressive than anticipated, however, and Ohtani joined Babe Ruth as the only players to hit at least 20 home runs and pitch at least 50 innings in the same season. Ruth did that in 1919 — his last season as a pitcher. The Red Sox sold him to the Yankees that offseason, and he became a full-time outfielder in 1920.
Ohtani will serve as a full-time hitter in 2019, as he underwent Tommy John surgery the day after the regular season ended. The surgery will likely prevent him from pitching in 2019, but he should see significant time as the Angels’ designated hitter, though he might not be ready at the start of the season.
Ohtani, a phenom in Japan for the Nippon Ham Fighters, was the subject of an intense recruiting campaign after he was posted. Although he pitched just 25 innings in 2017 because of an ankle injury, in 2016 he had a 1.86 ERA in 140 innings and hit .322 with 22 home runs. Because he was younger than 25 years old, Ohtani was subject to international signing rules, which capped his bonus at $3.557 million and limited him to a rookie salary scale (the signing team also had to pay a $20 million posting fee to the Fighters).
（2021/04/15） 2021年の大谷くんはリアル二刀流で活躍中
大谷翔平104年ぶりの2桁勝利、2桁本塁打 ベーブ・ルース以来 (Aug.10, 2022)
