It’s always fun to see athletes forced to play out of position, but there was nothing quite like seeing A’s catcher Jhonny Pereda take the mound to pitch to Shohei Ohtani. Arguably the greatest player in baseball simply had no answers to to Pereda’s stuff in one of the most staggeringly weird at bats of the year.
Scorching the gun with pitches in the 60s, Pereda’s bizarre mechanics set up Ohtani perfectly to bite on an 89 mph fastball high to strike out. The crowd was laughing at the whole thing, even considering they were playing in Los Angeles — but that’s to be expected when you’re killing an
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