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    Ohtani played in his first game of 2019 on May 7th as the Angels' designated hitter after undergoing Tommy John surgery. On June 13th, he became the first Japanese-born player to hit for the cycle in MLB history. His 2019 season ended prematurely on September 12th after needing knee surgery, having hit .286 with 18 home runs and 62 RBIs in 106 games. The 2020 season was delayed until July due to COVID-19. Ohtani experienced injuries in both 2019 and 2020, feeling frustrated that he could not pitch or hit to his standards due to physical limitations.

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    Ohtani played in his first game of 2019 on May 7th as the Angels' designated hitter after undergoing Tommy John surgery. On June 13th, he became the first Japanese-born player to hit for the cycle in MLB history. His 2019 season ended prematurely on September 12th after needing knee surgery, having hit .286 with 18 home runs and 62 RBIs in 106 games. The 2020 season was delayed until July due to COVID-19. Ohtani experienced injuries in both 2019 and 2020, feeling frustrated that he could not pitch or hit to his standards due to physical limitations.

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    Ohtani played in his first game of 2019 on May 7th as the Angels' designated hitter after undergoing Tommy John surgery. On June 13th, he became the first Japanese-born player to hit for the cycle in MLB history. His 2019 season ended prematurely on September 12th after needing knee surgery, having hit .286 with 18 home runs and 62 RBIs in 106 games. The 2020 season was delayed until July due to COVID-19. Ohtani experienced injuries in both 2019 and 2020, feeling frustrated that he could not pitch or hit to his standards due to physical limitations.

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    2019

    Ohtani batting in 2019


    See also: 2019 Los Angeles Angels season
    On May 7, 2019, Ohtani played in his first game with the Angels since undergoing Tommy John
    surgery, batting as a designated hitter against the Detroit Tigers.[82] In a June 13 game against
    the Tampa Bay Rays, Ohtani became the first Japanese-born player to hit for the cycle in MLB
    history.[83] On September 12, Ohtani's 2019 season prematurely ended after it was revealed that he
    needed surgery to repair a bipartite patella. He finished the season batting .286/.343/.505 with 18
    home runs, 62 RBIs, and 12 stolen bases in 106 games.[84]

    2020
    See also: 2020 Los Angeles Angels season
    The 2020 MLB season did not start until July 24 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[85] On July 24, 2020,
    Ohtani was the first ever automatic player on second base in an official MLB game at the start of the
    10th inning as part of one of the new 2020 MLB season rules in a game against the Oakland
    Athletics. He was thrown out in a rundown.[86]

    On July 26, 2020, Ohtani returned to the mound against the Oakland Athletics, making his first
    pitching appearance since September 2018. He allowed five runs and was removed from the mound
    without recording an out, starting his season with a loss and an infinite ERA.[87] After his second start
    of the season against the Houston Astros, Ohtani began to experience discomfort in his right arm,
    and it was eventually revealed that he had a flexor strain in his right elbow after undergoing an MRI.
    [88]
    Angels manager Joe Maddon later stated that Ohtani would not pitch for the rest of the season. [89]
    On the offensive side, Ohtani finished the season batting .190/.291/.366 with seven home runs, 24
    RBIs, and seven stolen bases in 43 games.[90]The culmination of experiencing injuries in his 2019
    and 2020 campaigns led to Ohtani describing feeling "frustrated" and "useless". He went on to say
    that while his 2019 had been disappointing, his 2020 had been "more like pathetic" because he
    could not pitch or hit the way he wanted to. Ohtani said, "[Until 2019], I could more or less do the
    things I wanted to do. I'd pretty much never experienced the feeling of wanting to do something but
    being completely unable to do it."[91]

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