Coming into the game yesterday, Angels manager Joe Maddon said he hoped to get at least five innings out of Shohei Ohtani. He didn’t even get a single out.
After going nearly 700 days without making a major-league start, Ohtani’s 2020 debut went as wrong as it possibly could go, as he allowed five runs and failed to record a single out versus the Athletics.
“It just wasn’t his day,” Maddon said following the game. “Fastball wasn’t coming out, there was no deception in his pitches. The walks were a big part of that.