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Joe Maddon not worried after Shohei Ohtani’s rough debut

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.