Major League Baseball’s two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani, in only five years into his career. He has shown that he is soaring to achieve greatness in the sport. Although it still might be a long way, from the looks of it, Shotime is on the right track. However, even on the path to greatness, there are bound to be some hurdles. And whoever the person be, can take a tumble with those. Something like that happened to the two-way phenom when his team, the LA Angels, went against the Oakland Athletics in the last game of a four-game series.?

Ohtani, with his wonderful play, has built up the expectations of countless people. Hence, whenever he plays and is not able to live up to those expectations, fans can become unhappy. But this time, when it happened, Angels’ manager, Phil Nevin, was the one to stand up for him and made people realize that the two-way phenom Shotime is also a human.?

What did the Angels’ manager say about Shohei Ohtani?

In the last game of the series against the Athletics, even though the Angels’ won by one run, Ohtani had gone through a bit of trouble. Hence, in the fourth inning only, he gave up four runs. Soon after the game, in the press conference, Nevin was asked about the same.?

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Without missing a beat, he said,?“[After Shohei gave up five runs in the 4th inning], the whole place was deflated. Everybody’s like what happened? He’s human. He’s gonna give up runs you guys. We’re in a dogfight now. Let’s fu… Let’s go.”

As soon as these words left Nevin’s mouth, baseball fans from all over started cheering for the Angels’ manager for standing up for Ohtani the way he did.

What are the fans saying about Nevin?

Baseball fans are appreciating Nevin for such words about his team’s player, especially when there’s a chance of the fans getting disheartened.?

Here’s how the baseball fans are reacting to Nevin’s words for Shohei Ohtani:

Many fans agreed with Nevin that Shotime, after all, is indeed a human. Hence, he is bound to make a few mistakes now and then. But what matters is that he stands back up from those mistakes. And that’s exactly what he did. Meanwhile, there is one fan who thinks Shotime as a human sounds off because of his insane talent and consistency because most until now used to think the same.?

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