TEMPE —
As the Angels reach the halfway point of their Cactus League schedule, here are five observations from the first weeks of spring training.
Confident Ohtani
Yermin Mercedes’ body lurched forward. His knees buckled. His bat swung. The ball dove beneath it.
The Chicago White Sox catcher had struck out on a wicked curveball from Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani. And as he made his way back to the dugout, he pointed to Ohtani as if to say, “You got me.”
By that point in Saturday’s spring training game, Ohtani had thrown 58 pitches across 2u2154 innings.