Shohei Ohtani's opposite field HR vs. the Reds is ridiculous

Kyle Madson

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Shohei Ohtani is outrageous. 

On Friday night Ohtani launched his 13th home run of the season, which ties him for the Major League lead with Houston's Kyle Tucker. This time Ohtani wasn't dropping the barrel on a ball middle-in. Instead he took a 95 MPH fastball on the outer half of the plate from Reds starter Frankie Montas with one out and one on in the third inning and tattooed it over the left field fence for just his third opposite field dinger of the season.

Ohtani's two-run blast put the Dodgers up 3-0 on Cincinnati. Mookie Betts gave Los Angeles an early lead when he parked a solo homer to lead off the bottom of the first. 

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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.