After watching Shohei Ohtani make contact with a Max Scherzer curveball inside in the first inning, Los Angeles Dodgers fans in Chavez Ravine and beyond watched with baited breath to see the three-time MVP go up against the three-time Cy Young winner once more in the third inning.

With the score 1-0 after Teoscar Hernandez bashed a solo bomb off the former Dodger, Ohtani squared up against the future Hall of Famer and promptly went to work, hitting the sixth ball thrown his way, a 95 mph four-seamer 389 feet just west of the foul pole for another solo shot . Expand Tweet Article Continues Below

One of the five best power hitters in baseball this season, Ohtani has been called a postseason choker by some of his detractors due to his lack of October production in the playoffs f

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