SEATTLE — As I type this from the lonely cheap seats in the lofty upper deck of T-Mobile Park, I’m still trying to digest what I just saw. The ball soared skyward, and oh do I mean skyward. Several members of the Seattle Mariners, Ohtani’s opponents on this warm night, craned their necks to track it and then stared dolefully at the ground. The crowd let out a collective gasp — a sound similar to that of air being released from a balloon. An usher leaned over and told me he’d been working Mariners games for more than a decade and had never seen a ball hit that high and that hard.

Source: New York Times July 12, 2021 04:01 UTC