Shohei Ohtani's Historic 6-for-6 Game: Best Ever in MLB?

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00:00Well, first things first, Maranci, what did you think of Otani in that performance?

00:07I don't think I've ever seen a guy go off like that in a baseball game.

00:11I'll tell you what, Scott, as it settles in right now, I figured I had to rock the Dodger

00:16gear today in honor of it.

00:19How is that not the best game in the history of Major League Baseball, Scott?

00:22The guy went 6-for-6 with 3 home runs, 10 RBIs, 3 home runs, 6-for-6 at the plate, stole

00:32two bases, and oh yeah, all in a game in which he became the first 50-50 player in the history

00:39of Major League Baseball.

00:42It's the greatest game ever, and I don't think it's a stretch to say he's the best player

00:47ever.

00:48I don't like to get into, and I know the New York media and the L.A. media, it's always,

00:54wow, you're having a better season than Judge, Judge is having a better season than Otani,

00:58and this, that.

00:59They're both great players, so I don't want to get into that, but it's hard not to say

01:04that Otani really is arguably the greatest player ever when you throw in the fact that

01:08he can pitch.

01:09And he's coming off a Tommy John surgery.

01:12He's injured, which is like, oh, don't worry, I can't pitch, but I'll hit for you.

01:16Unbelievable.

01:17I'll tell you what, if he, if the Dodgers are able to win the World Series this year,

01:22I think it'll be the greatest year in the history of, like, baseball, right?

01:26I mean, players have had great individual achievements, but how many players have had,

01:29like, a great individual achievement, did something that's never been done before in

01:33the history of the sport, and then won the championship to top it off, right?

01:39They need to win the championship.

01:40Now, baseball is a different sport, you know, and players aren't judged by championships.

01:45It's not like basketball, where there's only five guys on the court.

01:48You can only do so much if you're one dude, right?

01:50I mean, Otani's played in nearly 900 games without playing in a playoff game, right?

01:55He was still great on the Angels.

01:57The Angels sucked.

01:58So it is what it is, but we all know, Scott, that true greatness is championships, right?

02:05So he's got all the individual accolades already.

02:07He's got, like, he won the World Baseball Classic, he was the freaking closer and struck

02:12out Mike Trout to win the game and the championship.

02:15So he's done it all, except the World Series.

02:19I think the Dodgers are right there, as long as they can, like, roll together some sort

02:23of pitching staff for the playoffs, because that's the Dodgers' issue, guys.

02:27The Dodgers can smoke the ball, all right?

02:29The Dodgers can hit for real, but the Dodgers' pitching staff is just absolutely besieged

02:35with injuries, and it's really going to be a day-by-day operation once they get to the

02:39postseason who's pitching every day.

02:41So it could be a problem for them.

02:43Well, it's bound to be a problem.

02:46When your pitching is all broken and you have nobody that can pitch and you're throwing

02:51anything like a noodle against the fridge to see if it'll stick, I think you're going

02:55to have problems.

02:56There's no doubt they can score runs, play defense, everything else, but if you can't

03:01pitch and get guys out and the other teams raking, too, all the teams in the playoffs

03:05can hit.

03:06All the teams in the playoffs are good.

03:09The problem is, their pitchers get hurt all the time, like one after another.

03:13They're a mess.

03:14They're a mess.

03:15They're a mess.

03:16They're a mess out.

03:17Yeah, but Bobby Miller's not going to be pitching in the playoffs.

03:19Stone's out.

03:20Glasnow's out.

03:21Kershaw's broken.

03:22And Buehler, you can't trust.

03:23Yeah, but like I said, Stone, Stone, no, you can't.

03:28That's a problem.

03:29So as I stated, they still can put this thing together.

03:33It's going to be built, and now you've got Yamamoto, right?

03:36Jack Flaherty's going to have to step up.

03:38So they traded for Flaherty.

03:39You're going to have Yamamoto.

03:40It's going to be sorted by committee, which is tough to get by, you know, like for multiple

03:46series.

03:47I can't dispute that.

03:48But at the same point in time, they still have about two weeks or so, give or take.

03:53They're not first out of the gate.

03:54They're going to have a buy, most likely, to get this thing set.

03:58They're going to be in the mix.

03:59I think them and Philadelphia are on a collision course.

04:01You know, to see what's going on.

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