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Pitcher Shohei Ohtani's Amazing Week: 3 Homers, And A Near-Perfect Game

There seemed to be no way Shohei Ohtani could live up to the hype — after all, at just 23, he has been called a modern-day Babe Ruth, a threat both at the plate and on the mound. But so far, Ohtani is delivering: He struck out 12 batters on Sunday, after hitting home runs in three games last week.

It's still early, but the Japanese star is generating the kind of stats that people in

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