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Shohei Ohtani's splitter is so devastating that hitters are now 1-for-44 with 30 K's against it

It's hard to even put into words what Shohei Ohtani continues to do on a Major League Baseball field. In 150 some odd years of men hurling white spheres and swinging wooden sticks, there's no real comparison. 
As a hitter, Ohtani has six homers, 17 RBIs and a .321/.367/.619 slash line. And after striking out nine and giving up just two runs in 7 2/3 innings during the Angels' 4-2 win over the Rays on Sunday, he's now 4-1 with a 3.35 ERA on the mound. He has 51 strikeouts in 39 2/3 innings. Much of that success, as he showed again on Sunday, is due to his video-game level splitter:

MLB.com's David Adler went even deeper into the numbers and, future hitters facing Ohtani, you may not want to look.

Yes, 1-for-44 with 31 strikeouts. Shohei Ohtani is just not fair.

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