Coors Field does not care about your ERA and tonight it might not have to. Shohei Ohtani comes into Denver as the best player alive walking into the one ballpark built to make good pitching look like batting practice, and the number in front of him is 1.5 home runs. Not one. Two.
That is the whole story here. Sportsbooks do not put multi-homer lines in front of a hitter for fun, and they especially do not do it lightly against a Rockies team playing at 5,200 feet, where fly balls carry and breaking balls flatten out. Dodgers and Rockies do not usually headline a Monday night, but Ohtani chasing a two-homer game in the thin air changes that math completely.
The thing about Coors is it turns a normal night into a mistake-prone one for whoever is on the mound, and Ohtani has made a career out of punishing mistakes. Two home runs in one game is still two home runs in one game. Nobody does this often. The question tonight is whether Ohtani and altitude combine to make him the exception.