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ProfessorGAC

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9. Important Point
Tue Jun 20, 2023, 12:48 PM
Jun 2023

In an era where pitchers were EXPECTED to pitch the whole game, or at least 8 innings, Ruth hit 50% of his homeruns in the last 3 innings. 50% in 33.3% of the game when some steam was off most pitchers' fastball.
Ohtani has no such advantage when a hitter usually doesn't see the pitcher 3 times, and very rarely 4.
And, Ruth in the mid & late 20s had Lazzerri hitting in front of him & Gehrig behind. Nobody pitched around Ruth to get to Gehrig!
Ruth also played for years in a park where a mishit (for a guy who could hit it 450') was a homerun. That's not the case in the vast majority of the parks where Shohei plays.
Comparing such disparate eras with statistics is a dangerous way to draw conclusions.

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