The last time I watched a historic, never-before-done moment in MLB history, was when Mark McGuire broke the league’s season home run record. Everyone learned soon afterward that McGuire was juiced like an overripe orange and that feat-of-wonder was forever tainted. Irony stepped in and that record was broken by… uber-juicer Barry Bonds.
Bonds has denied that he was also juiced. Reach your own conclusions. I have.
On Thursday, I returned home and thought that, in the offhand chance that Ohtani would have a good game, he might become the only man in the 50/50 club. So, I turned on my TV and watched the game. And, I watched history.
Shohei Ohtani became the first player in baseball history to reach the 50/50 club on Thursday, and he did so in dominant fashion — with three home runs and two stolen bases in a six-hit game that led the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 20-4,…
