leadoff

“It’s pretty crazy to do, especially as the leadoff hitter, to strike out three, then hit a home run. He doesn’t have time to regroup,” Huntington Beach junior pitcher/outfielder Jared Grindlinger said.

Springer will be batting leadoff for the Jays, and Max Scherzer will be starting on the mound, and if you don’t boo both of them into vapor, then I don’t know you anymore.

He walked the leadoff batter, Bo Bichette, but manager Dave Roberts didn’t move.

With the Dodgers up 4-0 at that point, Ohtani then did his best work as a pitcher, following up two strikeouts that stranded a leadoff double in the fourth — and had him excitedly fist-pumping off the mound — with two more in both the fifth and the sixth.

After stranding a leadoff walk in the top of the first with three-straight strikeouts, Ohtani switched from pitcher to hitter and unleashed a hellacious swing.