Larry Stone: As Shohei Ohtani dazzles on mound and at plate, Mariners can’t help but wonder what might have been

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The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Since the last time he came to Seattle in late April, Shohei Ohtani has become a true baseball sensation. No one has ever seen his simultaneous combination of pitching prowess and hitting dominance — not even from his most common comparable, Babe Ruth. “Wow. Ohtani is in a class by himself,” Vin Scully tweeted Thursday after Ohtani’s typically majestic 32nd home run — but what does Scully know about baseball history? He’s been around the game for only seven decades. As Ohtani arrives in town Friday with the Angels for a three-game series that will lead into the All-Star break — an ev…

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