L.A. feels ready for this moment. Ready for its Dodgers. Ready for Mookie and Freddie and Yoshi and Teoscar and, of course, ready for The Show, Shohei Ohtani, the humble giant who already has cemented himself as one of the city’s all-time All-Timers.

Angelenos feel the anticipation of another World Series, out in force in a sea of Dodgers caps and an armada of cars, with blue Dodgers flags snapping in the wind. One lady even braided her long hair blue and white and declared on social media, “Dodgers braids are World Series ready!”

The moment would be huge if it was just about baseball. The Dodgers have lost only one out of 10 playoff games and they’ve done it with panache, and achievements so grand — headlined by Ohtani’s three-homer, 10-strikeout demolition in the climactic Game 4 again

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