The Shohei Ohtani show flopped on Wednesday night at Coors Field.

The reborn Rockies hammered the Dodgers’ two-way superstar for five runs on nine hits over four innings en route to an 8-3 victory.

Hammered is the operative word. In Colorado’s three-run fourth inning, Orlando Arcia lined a hot shot off Ohtani’s right leg for a base hit. Ohtani limped in pain, but he stayed in the game through the seventh inning as a designated hitter. The Dodgers said after the game that Ohtani was hit in the thigh, the same place a pitch had recently hit him, but he was not injured.

But the Rockies pummeled him.

“We had a good plan against him and we executed our plan,” manager Warren Schaeffer said. “He went soft a lot and it seemed like the boys didn’t spit on a lot of balls outside the zone.”

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