Shohei Ohtani's 50-50 season: Marlins' Skip Schumaker tells Dodgers star who intentionally walked to 'fuck it'

Thursday was another tough day at the office in what has been a rough year for Marlins manager Skip Schumaker, but he wasn't about to take the potentially easy way out when it came to history-making player Shohei Ohtani. According to the game broadcast, Schumaker said “To hell with that” about the idea of ​​intentionally walking Ohtani in the seventh inning with two on and two outs.

At that point in the game, Ohtani was 4-for-4 with a home run, two doubles, a single and two stolen bases, so walking him under normal circumstances wouldn't have been out of the question.

You don't need to be able to read lips to hear Schumaker's response:

But these were not normal circumstances and Ohtani is an extraordinary player.

Ohtani hit his second homer of the game, and his 50th of the season, becoming the Only member of the 50 home run, 50 steal club — Moments later.

At the time, it looked like that would be Ohtani's last plate appearance. Instead, he got another plate appearance in the ninth inning and…

Ohtani's final line was 6-for-6 with three homers, two doubles, one single, two stolen bases, 10 RBIs and four runs scored.

According to Craig Mish, Schumaker said after the game: “Good day for baseball, bad day for the Marlins.” That sums it up pretty well.

The Marlins fell to 56-97 on the season. The Dodgers, on the other hand, improved to 91-62 and secured a playoff spot.