LOS ANGELES -- After Shohei Ohtani mowed through the middle of the Toronto Blue Jays ' lineup in Tuesday's top of the sixth, Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior approached him in the dugout and asked how many innings he had left, conscious of the potential toll from the prior game. Ohtani answered affirmatively. "Three more innings," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts recalled him saying, perhaps half-jokingly.

Two batters later, though, he was finished.

One night after setting a postseason record by reaching base nine times in an 18-inning marathon, Ohtani performed as a two-way player in Game 4 of the World Series and was, well, mortal, going hitless in the batter's box and getting tagged with the loss on the mound.

Ohtani, speaking through an interpreter after a 6-2 loss that evened

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