Shohei Ohtani highlights: Dodgers DH crushes 451-foot HR vs. Royals

Kyle Madson

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There are no players in baseball that can do what Shohei Ohtani does when he's hitting and pitching. There are also very few who can do what he did against the Royals on Sunday in their series finale vs. the Dodgers. 

Ohtani in the bottom of the third got a 2-1 sinker from Royals starter Brady Singer that caught way too much of the zone. The Dodgers' designated hitter dropped his bat head and sent a soaring blast 451 feet to left center field at Dodger Stadium. The exit velocity was a scorching 114 MPH. 

There are a handful of players capable of hitting a ball that hard. There are very, very few capable of doing it toward the opposite field side of center.

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Kyle Madson neither likes writing about himself nor writing in the third person. Nevertheless, he persists. While Kyle has spent most of his writing career covering the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and San Francisco 49ers, he’s never lost the love of baseball that has resided in the deepest recesses of his soul since he began playing T-ball at 4 years old (no matter how hard John Fisher has tried). Aside from writing, Kyle also hosts a radio show, the Insiders, with James Ham on ESPN 1320 in Sacramento. When he’s not being a sports dork, Kyle loves being a normal dork and traveling, visiting museums, diving further into K-Pop fandom (#SKZ) and hanging out with his wife and cats. Don’t follow him on Twitter or Instagram at @KyleAMadson.