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Shohei Ohtani Came So Close to Getting Hit in the Head and MLB Fans Were Furious at the Pitcher

This was way too close.

Andy Nesbitt

Shohei Ohtani Came So Close to Getting Hit in the Head and MLB Fans Were Furious at the Pitcher
Shohei Ohtani Came So Close to Getting Hit in the Head and MLB Fans Were Furious at the Pitcher /
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What Shohei Ohtani has done for Major League Baseball so far in just his brief career has been nothing short of astounding. 

He hits mind-boggling home runs. He throws ridiculously cool pitches. He even runs really well along the base paths. 

The man can simply do it all. 

What fans don’t need is for Ohtani to have a pitcher hit him in the head with a pitch. That almost happened in Monday night’s Angels-A’s game in Anaheim but thankfully he was able to get out of the way of a fastball at the very last moment. 

Check out this very scary moment: 

That scream! 

Here's another look at it: 

That was waaaaaaaaaaay too close. 

MLB fans were not happy with A’s pitcher Ken Waldichuk:

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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