Lookout Landing · Jul 10, 2021
Slam heard ‘round the Sound gives M’s 7–3 win over Angels
Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images As Aaron Goldsmith would say, “No doubt about it!”In the third inning of tonight’s Mariners-Angels game, Shohei Ohtani absolutely obliterated a baseball. Honestly, “obliterated” doesn’t do it justice. This pitch will haunt Marco Gonzales for years to come.
With that dinger, the Angels took a 3–0 lead, with two home runs hit off Mariners “ace” Marco Gonzales in scarcely more than two innings of work. On a night where two former members of the Seattle organization were named All-Stars (Taijuan Walker and Freddy Peralta), such an ignominious moonshot felt like a harbinger of things to come.
Turns out that in 2021, with this team, harbinger is spelled Haniger.