Los Angeles Dodgers’ star Shohei Ohtani has completed one of the greatest individual performances in the World Series game.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That made Ohtani the first player to be intentionally walked four times in a post season game.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ohtani led off the bottom of the first inning with a ground-rule double to right field.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ohtani then hit a tying solo homer off Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez with one out in the seventh.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ohtani also became the first hitter to have multiple games with at least 12 total bases in a single post season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The only other player to have two such post season games in his career was Babe Ruth.<\/p>\n
Ohtani’s second home run tied the match at 5-5.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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