No baseball player is perfect, or so they say, but Shohei Ohtani does things we have never seen before. So no, you can’t blame the Blue Jays for deciding, not even halfway through what would become the second-longest game in World Series history, that Ohtani needed to be treated like plutonium: handled with care and sealed away from the batter’s box. After the seventh inning of Game 3, Ohtani was intentionally walked four times and then walked on four pitches.

In the end, it didn’t matter. Freddie Freeman ended Game 3 in the 18th inning — he’s one of the other two former MVPs on the Dodgers roster, along with Mookie Betts — and the Jays had to trudge to Game 4 against the Dodgers on Tuesday night trailing 2-1 in the series . And Jays manager John Schneider indicated that they

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