After Shohei Ohtani's Game 4 performance in the 2025 National League Championship Series, in which he was named MVP after a historic and unprecedented showing at the plate and on the mound, many analysts have chimed in to crown the Japanese phenom as the greatest player the game has ever seen.

In front of a roaring Dodger Stadium crowd, the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar threw six innings of two-hit ball, striking out 10 Milwaukee Brewers and silencing the league’s best offense.

But that was only half of it.

At the plate, he was even more brilliant. He crushed three home runs, the first coming right after he retired the side in the game's first inning, notched three RBIs and walked once. While he struck out 10 batters as a pitcher, he himself avoided that fate, despite struggling mightil

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