LOS ANGELES – Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is worth the price of admission, which isn’t cheap, by the way. And he’s certainly worth the $2 million they’re paying him this year — and probably a hundred times that amount — in a historically delayed deal for immediate surprise and excitement.
Frankly, the unprecedented two-way performance Ohtani put in to personally lead baseball’s best regular season team, the diminutive Milwaukee Brewers, out of the playoffs and return the defending champion $400 million Dodgers to the World Series was worth everything.
It’s hard to imagine anyone has ever done more in a playoff game — or any postseason game for that matter. Ohtani became the eleventh player to homer three times in a postseason game. But of course, no one ever did that while throwing six shutout innings and also striking out 10, because that should be impossible.
This was Ohtani’s signature performance, and it’s hard to remember anyone delivering a better performance in any setting. He hit the three longest shots of the game and also the three hardest-hit balls, and he threw the fastest pitches of a game that few will forget who witnessed.
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