The familiar sound reverberated throughout Dodger Stadium .

Crack!

The baseball soared into the October sky, Shohei Ohtani gliding down the first-base line as he watched it travel back, back, back …

… only to be caught a few inches in front of the left-field wall by Max Kepler.

So close.

So close to a seventh-inning home run that could have made Game 3 a game. So close to a home run that could have revitalized baseball’s best player in this National League Division Series.

Ohtani is now one for 14 with seven strikeouts in this best-of-five series, in which the Dodgers ’ lead was reduced to two games to one after an 8-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.

While Ohtani was hitless in five at-bats on Wednesday night, Phillies counterpart Kyle Schwarber launched two homers, inclu

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