Shohei Ohtani's Struggles in the Playoffs: A Deep Dive
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00:00They got a little bit of a problem with Otani right now, right?
00:06I mean, he's 0-19 with the bases empty.
00:11Now look, that's a tough stat.
00:13Obviously, he leads off the games.
00:16He has a 38% strikeout rate, which is one of the highest in the playoffs so far.
00:21So like Judge, Otani has struggled here in the playoffs.
00:24Dave Roberts doesn't seem completely concerned about it, though.
00:28I thought he didn't look comfortable versus Minaya.
00:32The heater's away.
00:34You can see he was just kind of trying to keep the ball away from Shohei.
00:37That's what they're going to do.
00:40Shohei's very good with the ball close to him.
00:43So they're just going to stay away, hard away, and if it's spin, it's going to be away.
00:48Just didn't feel comfortable.
00:50And then after that, I thought the righties that came in, they weren't about to give in
00:53too many.
00:54At least he took his walks.
00:56They're not going to say a bad word about a guy they give a billion dollars to, ever.
01:03No.
01:04The guy did not have a hit for two months and they'd still knob him.
01:08At least he took his walks, your man said up there.
01:12All right.
01:13But I do notice watching him that the Mets seem to be doing something very specific,
01:19and Dave mentioned it there.
01:22Everything is to the outside.
01:23Everything.
01:24And they are not letting him get anything on the inner half, because that's where he
01:29pulverizes everything.
01:30They kill you.
01:31On the inside.
01:32And the Mets pitchers have been good enough so far, and most of the guys in the Padres.
01:37I think he had one homer in the Padre series, where everybody's just leaving him outside.
01:41If he wants to go take it to left field, by all means, go ahead and do it.
01:45But they are not going to let him turn inside.
01:47You make a mistake to him, he's going to make you pay.
01:50Yeah.
01:51That's it.
01:52That's it.
01:54That's it.