Really, what were the odds that Shohei Ohtani was on that private plane from Southern California to Toronto on Friday? There are about seven billion humans on the planet, and one of them is an elite pitcher and hitter in Major League Baseball, so the odds were always a little long. But people in Toronto wanted to believe.
Oh course they did. Ohtani is the greatest baseball player alive, and frankly might be the best baseball player who ever played baseball, and he’s a show. He doesn’t just hit home runs: he hits CINEMATIC home runs. He doesn’t just strike out batters: When he struck out Angels teammate Mike Trout, a fellow god left to rot in the obscurity of Anaheim, for the final out in the World
