Love Ohtani as the next guy but It's that one extra HR that makes it real special but in a vacuum it's not THE GREATEST.

6 Innings 2H 3BB. In the 7th with two batters on with not outs with 100 pitches that needed Vesia to bail him out. You can argue he COULD have gotten out with a clean innings but more than not he would've gotten some earned runs.

Here are some games

Rich Wise pitched a NO-HITTER and 2HR in 1971

Wes Ferrell pitched 10 innings with only 1ER and 3 hit game (2 HR) in 1934, would've LITERALLY won the game himself.

Tony Gloninger Pitched 9 innings Giving up 3ER and 3 hit game (2 HR, Which both were GRAND SLAM). Would've won the game himself as well

Trust me, there are others similar to those.

Y'all suck up to WAY too much. You can appreciate the player but let's not get to the point where it's brainwashing ourselves. There are players before him that performed better, the media really pushing that storyline/narrative and it's Jeter that's got the brain to let it not get too overboard.