ARLINGTON, Texas — Aaron Judge had not yet finished his compliment of Shohei Ohtani during a midgame interview in the third inning of Major League Baseball’s 94th All-Star Game when the unicorn he was describing interrupted.
“It’s incredible what he does year in and year out,” Judge began on the broadcast, “and you think about this year, where he’s recovering from Tommy John surgery, and he’s hitting .316 with 30 homers. It’s just incredible …”
THWACK!
Judge might be clairvoyant. Ohtani was actually at 29 home runs on the year at the time of the interview, but the three-run, 400-foot blast Ohtani lifted off Tanner Houck in the middle of Judge’s conversation in the third inning gave him 30 since Opening Day.
It also started — and ended — the scoring for the National League as the American League stormed back to reclaim its All-Star reign.
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