LOS ANGELES — When the fans at Toronto’s Rogers Centre chanted “We don’t need you” during Shohei Ohtani’s final at-bat in the Dodgers’ Game 1 loss in the World Series , Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani was too focused on hitting to hear them.

Oh, he heard them alright.

“I thought it was great,” Ohtani said in Japanese when asked about it following Sunday’s workout at Dodger Stadium. “My wife loves that chant so she teased me a little about it.”

Later, he joked with the Japanese media, saying he hoped she wouldn’t start chanting that at home.

“Overall, I can relax once I get home,” Ohtani said. “I just try to make sure I don’t hear the same kind of chants at home that I heard in Toronto.”

Ohtani said “of course” he could hear the chants in the sold-out stadium – just like he

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