Los Angeles Dodgers three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani not only had one of the greatest single-game performances in MLB history, but did so against the team that finished with the best record in baseball and swept the Dodgers 6-0 during their regular season series.
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An otherworldly 3-for-3 game with three home runs, including one that left the stadium, was complemented by six scoreless innings on the mound, as the two-way superstar struck out 10 Milwaukee Brewers. Not to mention, this was a potential closeout NLCS game with a trip to the World Series on the line.
Superstar teammate Mookie Betts, an MVP and eight-time All-Star in his own right, did his best to try and quantify what it’s like to play with Ohtani.
“We’re like the Chicago Bulls, and he’s Michael Jordan,” Betts said. “I can tell my kids one day that I got to play with Ohtani. There’s just no more words what you can say what he does.
“It’s just Shohei being Shohei.”
Jordan was undoubtedly the greatest basketball player of all time during his playing days, and it’s safe to say that his six championships (he won three in a row twice over an eight-year period) and five MVP awards still hold up today.
Ohtani is looking for his second championship in as many postseason appearances, and he helped lead his Dodgers to the World Series for the second consecutive year. If LA can keep the magic alive, they will become baseball’s first back-to-back champions in a quarter century.
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Ohtani knows there is still more work to do, and briefly stated this on his Instagram account after the game, posting pictures from the sensational night with a caption reading “4 more.”
Ohtani will already go down as one of the greatest to ever pick up a bat (and pitch at an elite level, as well), but the next task for him to check off his list requires four more victories, as he guns for his second straight World Series title.
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