Los Angeles Dodgers’ star Shohei Ohtani has completed one of the greatest individual performances in the World Series game.

Ohtani hit two home runs and became the second player in history, and the first since 1906, to have four extra-base hits in a World Series game.

After his second home run, the Blue Jays had seen enough and intentionally walked the Japanese star the next four times he was at the plate. 

That made Ohtani the first player to be intentionally walked four times in a post season game.

With his four hits and four intentional walks, he became the first player in World Series history to reach base eight times in one game.

Ohtani led off the bottom of the first inning with a ground-rule double to right field.

He followed with a solo homer to right in the third inning off Toronto starter Max Scherzer and added an RBI double in the fifth off reliever Mason Fluharty during a tying rally for Los Angeles.

Ohtani then hit a tying solo homer off Seranthony Domínguez with one out in the seventh.

It was his sixth homer in the Dodgers’ last four games, and he tied Corey Seager’s eight homers in 2020 for the most by a Dodgers player in a single post season.

After becoming the first player in MLB history with three multi-home run games in one post season, Ohtani is two shy of Randy Arozarena’s record for homers in a post season.

Only one other player in baseball history got four extra-base hits in a World Series game: Frank Isbell had four doubles for the Chicago White Sox in Game 5 in 1906 against the Chicago Cubs.

Ohtani also became the first hitter to have multiple games with at least 12 total bases in a single post season. 

The only other player to have two such post season games in his career was Babe Ruth.

Ohtani’s second home run tied the match at 5-5.

The match continued into the 18th inning, making it the equal-longest match in World Series history, with the scores still locked at 5-5. 

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