The Shohei Ohtani afterglow was still shining bright on Monday, Oct. 20, three days after his mammoth feat at Chavez Ravine.

More on that in a moment.

But if there was ever, ever some common ground — a moment of sheer conversation that isn’t about our fractured political discourse, that isn’t about inflation, that isn’t about L.A.’s ridiculous traffic or just the general state of the world — surely, this must have been it:

In game four of the National League Championship Series, which would lead the L.A. Dodgers to sweep their opponents for a consecutive trip to the World Series — Ohtani, the starting Dodgers pitcher, throws six innings of shutout ball, allowing only two hits and ringing up 10 strikeouts, and then belts three home runs out of the ballpark, one out of Dodger stadium.

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