0:00 [Music] Japanese ma major league baseball phenom Shoi Otani might be the greatest baseball player of all time. >> That's what everyone's saying. >> He's the man. >> The game yesterday was unbelievable. Yesterday was game four of the NLCS. The the Dodgers are now going to World Series because of this performance. >> Show balled out. And also what I'm mad about, Joe didn't bring it up one time. >> Not one time. He didn't say in Japan. We have a guy named Shi. >> This is your countryman. He's not >> because he's a traitor. He came here. >> That's why he don't count. >> But aren't Are you here, too, though? >> He's like, "No, no, I'm not." >> That's the same. >> So, check this out. You're going to see in this video, you're going to see him pitching. He got 10 strikeouts. >> Damn. >> He pitched six innings and he got three home runs. This is all of it.
0:50 >> Damn. >> How many strikeouts? >> Damn. Hundos. He's throwing hundos, too. >> Damn. >> That's a homer. homework. >> That one was out of the park. Or one of these goes out of the park. Yeah, that was out of the park. >> I think there was two of them that went out of the park. >> Crazy. >> Yeah. >> Like to be able to do both. >> To do both is in ████ >> cuz I remember like a year ago they would always be like, "Oh yeah, like pitchers can't hit, dude." >> No, cuz pitchers are usually ████ >> Yeah, pitchers are ████ >> Well, they're like It's like the body type is just different, you know? You're long and lanky. You can ████ whip your arm and then to to knock a home run, you're usually like a beefcake. But this guy's both, >> dude. 10 strikeouts. >> He's unbelievable. >> Yeah. Look at that. Boom. >> Bro, and when he makes contact. >> Yeah. And you hear it. You hear >> There was one pitch that was inside the box. >> Oh. >> And he like it looked like he stepped
1:40 back a little bit and hit a homer off it. I was like, "Oh my god." >> That was all that was that's the end of the video. So that that was all him just kicking ass last night. >> So yeah, apparently uh only 12 hitters ever hit three homers in a game. Uh >> he hit >> and he in a postseason game only only 12 hitters ever and he and he hit Yeah. four. >> Wow. >> Yesterday while being the pitcher >> while striking dudes out. That's nuts. >> While being a winner in gambling, too, probably. >> A big time winner. Well, >> it was his manager. He was embezzling. It's not his fault. >> But I bet he's a good gambler, though, is all I'm saying. >> I I wonder I wonder if it was actually him and then the manager was a fall guy. >> He was placing bets for him. >> Got to have a fall guy. >> Check this out. Only 26 pitchers have ever recorded 10 plus strikeouts, two or less hits, and no runs in a postseason start.
2:30 >> And he just did both in the same game. >> No runs in this. >> That's insane, man. >> And this is a team that they lost to in the regular season like six times. >> They got swept. >> They never beat him until the playoffs. >> The Brewers, >> which is crazy. I didn't know that stat. >> Shout out Brew Crew. You guys got absolutely wrecked. in in another uh video that I saw that I really liked cuz they cut to um uh the teammates cuz for us we hear those stats. Okay, cool. That's pretty crazy. But like those guys that live and breathe baseball, they really know what those stats are. So when he started knocking those homers out and striking people out, you see his team like pull off their hat go like like >> these are grown men, professional baseball players. >> They're like we're witnessing ████ history right now. It was crazy. >> They couldn't believe it. You know what's so funny too? I was talking to some of the Dodger fans at our gym and they watch every game. They're like, like you said, they're super into baseball. They know all the they're
3:21 telling me percentage, RBI's. I don't know what the ████ that means. But they were telling me they're like, "Shi's not doing good. He's not playing well in this series. We'll see what happens. We may not make it to the World Series." >> Earlier this season, he was kind of >> like a couple days like like a couple games like game one there was >> he was not doing well at this playoff series. Yeah. >> And then for him to do this >> and he won MVP last night for this. So basically he he was he because he he had a quiet time in this whole playoff series and then he just went off last night and earned MVP because of one game because it was just that crazy. >> It's cuz he was charging his Japanese magic. It's like how Goku has to com like before he turns super super saiyan he has to charge right. So they're like he's not doing good cuz he's in the middle of charging. He's charging >> but now it was he was saving it >> to explode for this. He was edging for this moment. Have you ever seen him set up to hit a baseball?
4:11 >> It's the most Japanese baseball player ████ I've ever seen. >> So technical. It's like a ritual >> because everyone Yeah. Everyone does the regular baseball ████ They have like this American swag to it, right? He does this like um like bat >> like it's almost like he's a samurai going to war. Puts the bat down, touches like touch the corner, touch the corner like whatever. And then he's almost like a kendo stick like you know like he's like the way he does it. >> I like how he sticks it straight up too. straight up like he's a ████ samurai. Like he's ████ ready to go. And it's like the way he does it looks so ████ Japanese. Looks sick as ████ >> This ████ is clean, bro. >> So clean. >> So he had more home runs in his first 674 games than Babe Ruth. >> Babe Ruth also used to be um a pitcher as well. >> So it's a it's a pretty decent comparison. Yeah. >> Um he also had the same amount of wins as a pitcher in his first 455 innings
5:01 pitched as Babe Ruth, which is crazy. Um, and he because he's considered like the top top top, right? The great great bambino. Uh, Otani was not uh also he wasn't so like when he came into the league and I didn't even know this till recently. He was not drafted by the Angels. He was cuz he came out of Japan, right? He he basically had a bunch of teams that were lined up to pick him cuz they all saw him playing in Japan. They had tons of footage on him. He picked the Angels cuz he thought like this is the best destination for me. And he was like he could have gone to the Dodgers then. He loves Disneyland probably. >> I think he loves Disneyland. Yeah, >> Disneyland. Disneyland is good. >> He loves smaller world. >> But the thing, so he's been in the league like what I think eight years now or seven years. He couldn't get it done with the Angels. And so eventually he left for the Dodgers. >> They are too crazy.
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7:33 they're more fast-paced or like they don't Yeah. They don't go on for as long as the American ones or something. >> I didn't realize how big baseball is over there. >> It's like >> So it's like the American football here. >> Yeah. >> I would say baseball might be even bigger than football or like soccer, but those two are the biggest out there. Yeah, >> they have cool ass stadiums, too. >> Yeah, >> they sell out. It seems like every everyone in Japan goes to those games. >> I think it's just US somewhere in the Caribbean and Japan. I think South Korea is also into it too, but not as much. But yeah, I think those are the only places that are like really big on American baseball >> cuz the Dodger Stadium in Japan is open now. >> Wow. Really? >> I didn't know if there's a Dodger stadium. >> Is there Is there not like a Dodger >> Is there not a Dodger stadium in Japan? >> I don't even know. I don't even know. I thought you think you're messing with me. >> Can you check just in case I am?
8:24 >> They got funny team names though. I got to I got When you look it up, you're like It's funny cuz it's like you could tell it's a Asian person that just made up an American name and they're like, "That's a good name." >> They have a a Tokyo Dome, I guess, that they play baseball in. >> I thought the Dodgers were going to open their own >> Well, they So, the Dodgers played the season opener at the Tokyo Dome this year. Maybe you're thinking of that >> cuz that's when the season opened. Yeah. You know what's crazy too is everyone says um the Dodgers are ruining baseball because they have the largest salary like like in by far in baseball >> cuz it used to be the Yankees, right? >> Winning it because >> How is it ruined? >> Because they're saying that you can just buy wins basically, right? Like >> it still doesn't guarantee that they're going to win. >> That's correct. Cuz look at the ████ Mets. >> The Mets have the second highest salary cap in baseball and or highest salary in baseball and they didn't even make the playoffs.
9:14 >> Wow. >> Yeah. So >> Anthony telling us he was saying that Otani took a pay cut >> or the way they did the structure so he would get less they would have more money to spend. >> He he basically has it backloaded so like his contract he gets all the money later so that he he doesn't have to pay as much taxes. >> Pretty cool. >> It's very Japanese I think. >> Oh if it's for taxes mainly that's even better. >> It is mainly for taxes. It's like structured for >> I thought it was to like have a bigger budget to acquire better teammates or something. I'm sure that's part of it, but the but the big slice on it apparently is taxes cuz he cuz he he he doesn't have to he can go wherever he wants and get paid. >> Is it true because you wanted better teammates? >> Taken. >> That's a lot of money. >> But wasn't it like um like um what you call it like a thing that they've been doing since the 80s and 90s of like
10:04 drafting players from Asia cuz I remember Nommo was a big thing. Remember Hideo Noom? That was a big in was in the 90s. Yeah. Ichiro. There was like >> I mean he also has a teammate who >> he's the goat though. >> I mean they don't play like Otani obviously good players from Japan and Korea but like >> for a outofcount player to be the goat >> cuz we don't even have that in basketball yet. All of our everyone's like homegrown. It's pretty crazy for like someone else to be the goat. >> And when I see this guy's face on buses and I see everyone wearing his jersey, you're like, "Oh, this guy's special, dude." You see these like little cholo dudes rock. Yeah. I think that that's the coolest thing. That's the thing I love culture. >> I like that chino. >> Yeah. Like that. That's cool. >> You celebrate by going to Little Tokyo and eating like sushi or some ████
10:54 >> Like that's the kind of advocacy I I ████ I'm for. You remember people are always like, "No, you should just like everyone." It's like, "No, you need a ████ bridge, dog." >> Yeah. >> You need some way Yeah. You need some way for them to like respect respect whatever on their own accord. Like you can't just be like, "Don't be mean." >> There's another Japanese guy on the team called Yamamoto who's who's a very He's very good as well. >> Everybody was saying he was helping out Otani's slump, right? >> He was a lot, especially with pitching. But >> he's like the in the shadow. >> Well, he's not like hitting He's not bombing like 40 home runs a year. >> He's not He's not him. >> More of a role player. >> Like right now, hitting 40 home runs a year is insane. >> That's crazy. >> Sounds like a joke. >> Home runs? >> That's Sounds like a guy that's lying about his career, >> right? >> Yeah, I do 40. >> Huh? That's like when I was a kid. When I was a kid, it's like it's like how how what's your erra or or what's your what's your batting average? And I was
11:44 like 700. >> Well, it's 700 cuz cuz the coach used to underhand pitch it. >> So, it's like not even like I cannot play baseball in Japan. They're too good. I'll go to America. >> Dang. That's funny. If that happens someday and he skyrockets here, >> anytime I turn on a Dodgers game, which is very rare, >> and I see Otani play, he does amazing things. I remember one time he hit a grand slam just like as soon as I turned on the TV and I was like, I've never seen a grand slam before. >> I have at Denny's Mookie Mookie Mookie Betts, his his Dodgers teammate last night said that he is Michael Jordan and we are the Bulls. Like, >> yeah, after that game, >> it gave me chills. That's dope. That is crazy. It's a lot of respect, right? >> Oh, yeah. >> Cuz Muki was the guy. >> It's also crazy, too, cuz he Otani can't understand what the ████ they're even
12:34 saying. >> Who's a Michael Jordan? >> Boo. I am not a ████ Did I do a good job? Who's a Michael Braxton? >> Tony Braxton. >> Unbreak whose heart? But having his translator always next to him, you would think that there would be like almost like a a wall between him and his teammates, but they all seem to just like love him and they all like >> probably got some ████ awesome manners. >> Yeah. >> I mean, he's he's getting water for them and winning the game. Like, >> yeah, dude. Just a nice guy probably. That's freaking sick. >> Probably like folding everyone's bed sheets and ████ Like, dude, this guy's ████ cool.
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