Japanese baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani started the 2018 year in America’s Major League Baseball and hopes to become the first player to be both a superstar pitcher and a superstar batter since Babe Ruth revolutionized the sport 99 years ago. He’s off to a great start with two dominant pitching performances and three home runs. Plus, we talk about the English phrase “flip a switch.”
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