Yankees’ Nestor Cortes Jr. uses every trick in the book to get Shohei Ohtani out

It worked!

Shohei Ohtani is nearly impossible to stop right now.

He’s leading the majors in home runs with 28 after hitting two huge dingers on Tuesday night, giving him 13 in June.

The only man who could stop him was … Nestor Cortes Jr.

I’m serious. The New York Yankees reliever actually did an amazing job on Tuesday night getting Ohtani to hit a long fly ball for an out, but he had to resort to some tricks in order to do it.

Cortes — known for changing up his arm slot — got him swinging and missing with a three-quarter arm slot pitch. He followed up by delaying his next pitch as he went into his windup, which was interrupted by the home plate ump. With Ohtani laughing, Cortes quick-pitched him for a ball.

Then? A side-armer for the pop-up. Amazing.

Seriously, this is totally his thing. Check out what he did to Bryce Harper last week, which is probably what he was attempting Tuesday before the ump stopped play:

Cortes has a 1.02 ERA, so maybe he knows what he’s doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjKXgqwrHxs

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