Ohtani with the perfect water bottle spray, a breakdown

Apr 5, 2021 1.4M views 4:12

What Happened

On April 4, 2021, the Angels beat the White Sox in a wild back-and-forth that featured both teams kicking the ball around the infield. The Angels blew a 3-0 lead through a parade of errors, walks, a wild pitch, and a passed ball, and Shohei Ohtani got leveled on a play at the plate but stayed in the game. Rookie Jared Walsh hit two home runs, including a go-ahead shot, then chucked his helmet in celebration and nearly clocked Ohtani. Ohtani took it personally, grabbed his water bottle, and fired a perfect stream straight into a teammate's face as payback.

Why This Matters

This was one of those early-season games that told you the 2021 Angels were going to be fun and frustrating in equal measure. Ohtani pitched, homered, and got run over at the plate, then closed the show with a water-bottle laser to the face, which is the kind of three-act performance that became his trademark. Jared Walsh's two-homer day was the real story for Anaheim, a former 39th-round pick turning into a legit power bat after tearing it up late in 2020. Raisel Iglesias, just acquired in a trade, nearly coughed up the save with a throwing error before locking it down. None of these clips are highlight-reel routine plays, but stacked together they show why baseball blooper-and-brilliance games age better than clean wins.

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Key Moments

Who / What Is Involved

Players: Shohei Ohtani.

Key Terms Mentioned

Home Run Walk-Off

the angels and the white sox put on a

damn show usually when i do these

breakdowns of walk-off wins i'm only

breaking down the celebration and the

final play

but everything in this game was

interesting the angels have a 3-0 lead

and then they just start throwing the

ball away ohtani with the pick off move

because he was probably like hey that

should have been a double play

and now he's on third and then another

walk there to eaton

and a walk there to obrayu and now the

bases are lowered there's two

outs and now we got a wild pitch one

run's gonna score

two others advance into scoring position

and atani's just throwing the ball away

strikes this dude out but that's a pass

ball and now another runs gonna score

because

they don't get the out at first they

come home for the trailing runner ohtani

gets leveled

now it's tied up at three ohtani gets

the feet

taken out from underneath him he comes

out of the game seemingly fine after

that

big story up comes the rookie

walsh and just slams a homer this dude

catches it grabs it bobbles it

regains control celebrates with his

friends

kept his head on straight there now

iglesias

with the save attempt they picked him up

they traded for him hit by pitch

he's going to field the bunt here he's

going to throw to first and it's way

too high but fletcher is going to save

him nice athletic

slo-mo play everybody loves that

iglesias ain't done though angels

pitchers throwing the ball

away that's what happened this game look

at that tries to get the lead runner at

third

throws it into left field nice snag with

the glove and then bam and

instant regret oh no

so now the game is tied up again and the

angels are hitting and we got

fowler gets on base that's the go ahead

run we like

that trout gets out after him and we got

rindon

he's gonna work the count full and take

the walk so now there's two on

for the big bad dude jared walsh he

tore it up at the end of last season

starting this year hot had the home run

to give him the lead now

takes that pitch and the ump gives it to

him and the catcher's like wait hold up

we like really liked that pitch we

wanted it now the pitcher

foster goes change up change up

gets the strike there and then change up

so now the count is three and one and he

threw

three changed up changeups in a row and

if you're the hitter

pretty good guess in a three one count a

fastball count already and

he just threw three chain ups in a row

pretty good guess you're gonna get a

fastball here

he's ready for it outside fastball

throws it over the wall and left center

robert can't get it look at this little

bite that lower lip

bam i mean this was like a robbable ball

seemingly but you know off the bat he

knew it he pimped the hell out of it

he's having a great start to his season

and he's enjoying his life so what

throws his helmet in celebration and

almost knocks out ohtani

ohtani takes personal offense that

undoes his water bottle

seeks him out and look at that missile

right in the face here's another angle

look at this ohtani he pitched in this

game he hit a home run in this game

and he just has the water bottle squirt

laser beam shot right to the dude's face

he does it all

the the clothes are iglesias who almost

blew the game

he seeks him out and says thank you very

much man

rubs his head shakes it off gotta have a

short memory

what a fantastic game and if you want to

hear all about this from a player's

perspective Lucas Giolito stud for the

white sox is on the chris rose rotation

he's one of the hosts

and i bet they're going to talk about

this opening series because why wouldn't

they

that's what he's doing he's on the

podcast talking about the games

so go check that out on the john boy

media youtube channel or

any podcast app chris rose rotation

i hope chris rose asked him about

ohtani's water bottle spread of the face

maybe he will maybe he won't tune in