Shohei Ohtani's unprecedented performance lifts Dodgers
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It’s crazy to be able to have \[him\] be a good pitcher and, on top of that, be able to produce at the plate. It’s not very common.” - World Series Game 1, presented by Capital One: Friday, time TBA,
Having not yet finished his second season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani is already providing surplus value to the franchise just 22 months after signing a 10-year, $700 million contract in free agency.
The Dodgers star could have tried something new to overcome his struggles at the plate but he made the right choice—staying uniquely himself.
Shohei Ohtani, who is the greatest baseball player ever, has had the greatest regular-season game ever and the greatest postseason game ever and looks capable of having the greatest World Series game ever.
He led off the game with a home run off Jose Quintana, but it did not stop there. He would go on to hit two more home runs, helping his club eliminate the Brew Crew. He is now the only player in MLB history to have 10 strikeouts and three home runs in the same game.
Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers punched their ticket to a second consecutive World Series last night, in historic fashion. In 2017, Jon Wertheim met Ohtani in Sapporo, and got to know Japan's most fearsome pitcher and most prolific hitter.
Just when you think you've finally seen it all from Shohei Ohtani, he finds yet another way to make history -- and then another … and another.
Shohei Ohtani's otherworldly performance that propelled the Los Angeles Dodgers back to the World Series has left the sporting world in awe, with players and legends alike marvelling at what may have been the greatest single-game display in MLB history.
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