Wilt's 100 point game vs Ohtani's 3 HR, 10 K, 0 runs allowed game

[Mean_Streets]

3 home runs
10 strikeouts
3 hits allowed
0 runs allowed

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[1993Playoffs]

Wow he is incredible

[EH15]

The better comp is LBJ game 6

[NoDopeOnSundays]

Ohtani's game happened in the playoffs, so it's that.

Also, one of his homeruns was 469ft

[Bad Bart]

Ohtani's game happened in the playoffs, so it's that.

Also, one of his homeruns was 469ft

And not just a playoff game, the NLCS deciding game. They're headed to the World Series.

Ohtani is absurd.

[KrAzY3]

I'd have to look it up, but there can't have been very many pitchers that won the game by themselves basically.

There was this though: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196607030.shtml
The pitcher had 9 RBIs, two grand slams, while pitching a complete game.

Interesting tidbit about that game, two of the Alou brothers were batting leadoff (on opposing teams of course) that game. Another thing that can't have happened very often.

[JJ_PR]

Easily Ohtani. It was a playoff game and with the win, they advanced to the World Series. Wilt 100 points was impressive but at one point during that game the players probably stopped playing defense.

Ohtani with the historic performance. Easily the best performance ever in a baseball game.

And I happen to share the same birthday as him.

Hitting 3 home runs in a playoff game is ridiculous. He also had 10 strikeouts.

[Dr Aki]

MLB: The Sho

[Wolveswin]

Those voting for Wilt are curmudgeon old farts.

Wilt played against plumbers and auto mechanics. We all know that wasn’t true - but what it represents is sure true. Professional basketball wasn’t a worldly game, didn’t attract the very best of the best as it does today.

MLB today is worldly and attracts the best of the best. A 3HR game many would say one of the best playoff games ever. Judge would be talked about for months having 3HR (for example - you know the American League MVP).

A pitcher striking out 10 in 6 scoreless would be on sports center for days discussing such a performance by a dedicated pitcher only.

One human being did both today. Against the best competition in the world.

[SlimShady83]

Those voting for Wilt are curmudgeon old farts.

Or maybe we're just baskeball fans and nothing else, that said give me Kobes 81 over Wilt's 100 any day ...

But for the poll it's Wilt I'm voting Wilt gg anything not basketball related

There I said it

Where there 1 OT thread there always more and as i post this it's not even title OT unlike the other

[California Gold]

Ohtani with ease. You truly will never see that again in a postseason game again unless its Ohtani that does it again himself. People don't realize the amount of skill needed for that kind of game to occur. There's a reason it's never been done in a sport that's been around a lot longer than basketball.

[maverick_41]

Could you please share the link to the video of Wilt's game?

[druggas]

Those voting for Wilt are curmudgeon old farts.

Wilt played against plumbers and auto mechanics. We all know that wasn’t true - but what it represents is sure true. Professional basketball wasn’t a worldly game, didn’t attract the very best of the best as it does today.

MLB today is worldly and attracts the best of the best. A 3HR game many would say one of the best playoff games ever. Judge would be talked about for months having 3HR (for example - you know the American League MVP).

A pitcher striking out 10 in 6 scoreless would be on sports center for days discussing such a performance by a dedicated pitcher only.

One human being did both today. Against the best competition in the world.

Dumbest post of the century. Congratz.

[Wolveswin]

Those voting for Wilt are curmudgeon old farts.

Wilt played against plumbers and auto mechanics. We all know that wasn’t true - but what it represents is sure true. Professional basketball wasn’t a worldly game, didn’t attract the very best of the best as it does today.

MLB today is worldly and attracts the best of the best. A 3HR game many would say one of the best playoff games ever. Judge would be talked about for months having 3HR (for example - you know the American League MVP).

A pitcher striking out 10 in 6 scoreless would be on sports center for days discussing such a performance by a dedicated pitcher only.

One human being did both today. Against the best competition in the world.

Dumbest post of the century. Congratz.

Awwww thanks. We found at least one fitting the first sentence.

[The4thHorseman]

This is the proper time when you can use:

"It's not even close" cause it's easily Ohtani

[Mirotic12]

It's obviously Ohtani. The level of difficulty to do what he did is insane.

[The4thHorseman]

The better comp is LBJ game 6

Nahhhhh, there is no comparison. Last night was the most historic player performance in baseball history.

[Wolveswin]

Those voting for Wilt are curmudgeon old farts.

Wilt played against plumbers and auto mechanics. We all know that wasn’t true - but what it represents is sure true. Professional basketball wasn’t a worldly game, didn’t attract the very best of the best as it does today.

MLB today is worldly and attracts the best of the best. A 3HR game many would say one of the best playoff games ever. Judge would be talked about for months having 3HR (for example - you know the American League MVP).

A pitcher striking out 10 in 6 scoreless would be on sports center for days discussing such a performance by a dedicated pitcher only.

One human being did both today. Against the best competition in the world.

Dumbest post of the century. Congratz.

Ok, answer me this.

Let’s say the NBA AMERICAN born talent back in Wilt’s day was exactly as good as is it is today. Meaning Top to bottom every player justifiably as athletic, talented, just as big (tall and strong) as NBA today. Meaning not one difference in talent pool of NBA American born yesteryear player as player today. So, can we agree that becomes a fixed variable?

How do you account for this:

Total international players: record setting 125 on opening-night rosters for the 2024-25 season.
Countries represented: 43.
Top countries by number of players: Canada (21), France (17), and Australia (13).

As of the 1961–62 NBA season, there were only a handful of international players in the NBA league.
Details about international players in the early 1960s:
International players were a rarity: The influx of international players into the NBA did not occur until the 1980s and 1990s. In the early decades of the league, nearly all players came from the United States, with a few exceptions.

Be honest, we also don’t have a fixed variable either - as described in my first paragraph - right? Not only is NBA worldly today - record setting - but the American born talent is much better today than Wilt’s time. Maybe not on the very top with players like Wilt, but top to bottom. Then the league adds 125+ international athletes to the mix. We are talking apples and oranges in athletic talent level through and through from then to now. That is 100% true.

[michaelm]

Those voting for Wilt are curmudgeon old farts.

Or maybe we're just baskeball fans and nothing else, that said give me Kobes 81 over Wilt's 100 any day ...

But for the poll it's Wilt I'm voting Wilt gg anything not basketball related

There I said it

Where there 1 OT thread there always more and as i post this it's not even title OT unlike the other

Wilt was great and all, and the plumbers thing is nonsense, he was a freak of nature then and would still have been in any era. Imo there is some case for him being the most ridiculous combination of size, strength and athleticism ever seen in the Western sporting world.

It was a regular season game however and as I understand it there was eventually some impetus for him to make the 100 points, certainly from his own team at least.

Everyone on both teams is likely doing their utmost on every play to win a deciding game to make the baseball World Series, and while I am much more a basketball fan these days I know enough to be aware that winning such a game as both a pitcher and a hitter is close to unprecedented in North American baseball.

[Jasen777]

It's Ohtani because being a starting pitcher has more effect on defense than any basketball player can have.