CLEVELAND, Ohio — Just when you think you’ve seen everything Shohei Ohtani can do, the Dodgers superstar rewrites the definition of “impossible” in baseball. The Japanese phenom delivered perhaps the most remarkable individual playoff performance in MLB history on Friday, hitting three monstrous home runs while striking out 10 batters in a single game to send Los Angeles to the World Series.
As cleveland.com Guardians beat reporter Joe Noga put it: “Everything that you’ve ever seen written about this guy and how good he is, it doesn’t do him enough justice after a performance like that.”
The numbers are staggering. Three home runs with exit velocities around 116 mph. A 460-foot blast that nearly cleared Dodger Stadium entirely. Ten strikeouts with “filthy breaking pitches and 100 mile an