Pitching in Major League Baseball is difficult with the quality of hitters in the game today.
MLB pitchers need to have confidence in themselves and believe in their ability to get any hitter out at any moment.
You will not often find an MLB pitcher admitting that a hitter is difficult to get out.
According to Foul Territory on ‘X,’ Cleveland Guardians pitcher Matthew Boyd describes just how hard it is to get Shohei Ohtani out.
Pitching to Shohei Ohtani is… difficult, says @mattboyd48 of the @CleGuardians @BallySportsCLE pic.twitter.com/bJpudb7pjD
— Foul Territory (@FoulTerritoryTV) September 20, 2024
Boyd is a starting pitcher for the Guardians and holds a record of 2 wins and 1 loss this season with a 2.52 earned run average.
While pitchers need high confidence in themselves to perform well in the Major League, Ohtani has become a whole new problem to deal with.
The analytics of the game today are so advanced, that weaknesses of hitters can be found and exploited by pitchers.
Boyd describes how difficult it is to pitch to Ohtani saying that he can cover the entire zone and take multiple different pitches deep at any moment.
Ohtani came off of a career game on Thursday where he went 6-6 hitting with 3 home runs and 10 runs batted in.
This historic game for Ohtani landed him the first player in MLB history to reach 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season.
Ohtani has been the main topic of MLB news as of late and will look to continue his amazing season into October.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Ohtani will look to cause some problems for opposing pitchers in the 2024 postseason.
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