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11 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Yeah that’s ridiculous.  Plenty?  LOL

Maybe prime juiced Bonds.  And that’s only if you don’t take Ohtani pitching in to consideration.  WAR with both is just asinine.  

To me the conversation is basically Bonds, Ruth and that’s prolly it. Hank, Willie a few others have some longevity arguments but no one else has ever been like this.

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So, now, let’s break down the Ohtani game:

First, he went 6-for-6. That has happened just 75 times in baseball history—10 times in the last 10 years.

Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon vs. Diamondbacks, 2014

California’s C.J. Cron at Boston, 2016

The Mets’ Wilmer Flores vs. the Cubs, 2016

Washington’s Anthony Rendon vs. the Mets, 2017

Houston’s George Springer at Oakland, 2018

Milwaukee’s Christian Yelich at Cincinnati, 2018

Cincinnati’s Phil Ervin at Colorado, 2019

Boston’s Rafael Devers at Cleveland, 2019

Washington’s Luis Garcia Jr. at Kansas City, 2023

Shohei at Miami, 2024

It’s interesting—but certainly not meaningful—that the last six times a player has had six hits in a game, they did it on the road.

OK, so just going 6-for-6 in a game is absurd and super-rare. There are many, many fewer 6-for-6 games in baseball history (75) than no-hitters (326).

Now, let’s add a few things. Shohei Ohtani had 17 total bases. That has happened just seven times in baseball history. The other six all involved players who hit four homers in a game.

19: Los Angeles’ Shawn Green, 2002 (4 homers, single, double)

18: Texas’ Josh Hamilton, 2012 (4 homers, double)

18: Milwaukee’s Joe Adcock, 1954 (4 homers, double)

17: Brooklyn’s Gil Hodges, 1950 (4 homers, single)

17: Philadelphia’s Mike Schmidt, 1976 (4 homers, single)

17: Cincinnati’s Scooter Gennett, 2017 (4 homers, single)

17: Shohei, 2024 (3 homers, two doubles, single)

OK, so that’s even more rare. Next: How many players have hit three home runs and stolen a base in the same game? That would be 20—a wonderful list that includes Shohei, Barry Bonds, Eric Davis (he did it twice!), Barry Larkin, Willie Stargell, Joe Carter, Paul Goldschmidt and, obviously, Joey Votto (!).

Now, how many of them hit three home runs and stole two bases in the same game?

Um:

Shohei Ohtani, Sept. 19, 2024: 3 home runs, 2 stolen bases.

 

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20 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

 

Question. So when this dude tries to sell it for millions, how can he prove that ball is legit? What's to keep anyone dude from selling a baseball and claiming that is the ball?

I imagine you can get some sort of authentication from MLB/Experts. It’s all on video. They can see who caught it.

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1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

I imagine you can get some sort of authentication from MLB/Experts. It’s all on video. They can see who caught it.

Plus, they usually put special balls in play (that’s what she said) when a significant milestone is about to be achieved. I assume that happened yesterday. 
 

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3 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Plus, they usually put special balls in play (that’s what she said) when a significant milestone is about to be achieved. I assume that happened yesterday. 
 

yes that happened yesterday.  they interviewed him and he said he was glad it was over and gave an example of having to put the special balls in play every time he came up.

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