What is it that doesn't even make a supporting role in the batting average of 0.133? The famous WS series, heroes are born separately every day

Oct 30, 2024

LA Dodgers Shohei Ohtani is stepping down with a regretful look after striking out in the seventh inning of Game 4 of the World Series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on the 30th (Korea time). AFP Yonhap News

New York Yankees Aaron Judge is staring somewhere during the defense in the top of the ninth inning of Game 4. AFP Yonhap News

Let's pick a player who has finally recovered one game after the New York Yankees have won three consecutive games.

First of all, the Dodgers came from behind to win the game 6-3, when Freddie Freeman hit a finishing grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning when the Dodgers was trailing 2-3. The first walk-off bases-loaded walk-off in World Series history. Of course, starter Jack Fleherty's good performance in five ⅓ innings with five hits and two runs in a showdown with Yankees ace Gerrit Cole was also a stepping stone for victory.

In the second game, Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was outstanding. In six ⅓ innings, one hit, two walks, four strikeouts, and one run are among Yamamoto's three pitches this season. Teoscar Hernandez, who hit the final two-run shot in the bottom of the third inning when the score was 1-1, was the top contributor to the lineup.

In the third game, which was moved to Yankee Stadium, it's all over againJuss' perfect tutta harmony stood out. Starter Walker Buehler neatly blocked five innings with two hits and no runs, and Freeman fired a superior two-run shot in the top of the first inning. Buehler has two wins and a 0.50 ERA in three World Series games, establishing himself as a pitcher of 'Big Game'.

Game 4 was an exhilarating counterattack by the Yankees. With Freeman's first two-run shot in the first inning for two consecutive days, Anthony Wolfie hit a come-from-behind grand slam in the third inning. Luke Weaver, who struck out Mookie Betts with a high fastball in the seventh inning with two outs and a runner on second base with a 6-4 lead, then blocked him with a three-out strikeout in the eighth inning, is a veteran pitcher.

Otani is striking out swinging by an outside ball in the seventh inning in Game 4. ImagesYonhap News

Fans who were watching Game 4 of the World Series on TV in Oshushi, Japan, home of LA Dodgers Shohei Ohtani, are regretting. AP Yonhap News

During the four games, Dodgers 50-50 man Shohei Ohtani and Yankees home run-run king Aaron Judge are not on the winning list. The two superstars who seemed to be able to make the World Series are silent after saying, `There is nothing to eat for a famous feast.'

Coincidentally, the grades are similar. Ohtani has a batting average of 0.133 (2 hits in 15 at-bats), two runs scored, an OPS of 0.478, and Judge has a batting average of 0.133 (2 hits in 15 at-bats), an RBI, a run scored, and an OPS of 0.411. There is no need to say that anyone is more sluggish. Fans are not looking good because they haven't hit a home run yet.

The date when the two players hit their most recent home runs is the same on the 18th. In Game 4 of the NLCS against the New York Mets at Citi Field, Ohtani pulled left-hander Jose Kintana's 90.8-mile sinker in the top of the first inning and hit a 422-foot long-range solo shot over the right fence. Since then, he has failed to add home runs in six consecutive games and 33 at-bats until Game 4 of the World Series. Ohtani's longest home run in the regular season this year was nine games.

On the same day, Judge failed to activate his cannon in six games and 28 consecutive at-bats after his superior two-run shot in the eighth inning of Game 3 of the ALCS against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. Judge has had 16 consecutive home runs, the longest in his career this season.

Aaron Judge hits a timely hit in the bottom of the eighth inning. EPA Yonhap News

After losing Game 3 the previous day, Judge "I know well that the team's batting line has sunk because of me. I want to get a hit. I want to go to bat and do my job. But now I'm not doing that. We have to get a hit out"He blamed himself. Perhaps because of this, Judge immediately hit a left-handed hit when Juan Soto, the front hitter, doubled to the right in the bottom of the eighth inning, leading 10-4 in Game 4. It looked like a spoon was lightly placed on the table.

Analysts say the two players' sluggishness is due to their weakened ability to distinguish between strikes and balls.

In the regular season, Ohtani marked 54 home runs-59 steals, an OPS of 1.036, and Judge marked 58 home runs-144 RBIs and an OPS of 1.159, respectively. It is the first time that the two league home run kings will face off in the World Series. So the fans' expectations were high.

If either of them becomes the World Series MVP, he will become the sixth player in history to win the regular season MVP and the World Series MVP in the same year. We don't know whether the series will end in Game 5 or go to Games 6 or 7, but that's close to impossible.