{"id":221298,"date":"2025-10-18T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221298\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:26:07","slug":"shohei-ohtani-sends-dodgers-to-world-series-with-historic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221298\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani Sends Dodgers to World Series With Historic Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday in Game 4 of the NLCS, completing the sweep and securing a spot in the World Series. <\/p>\n

The Dodgers rolled out Shohei Ohtani as the team’s starting pitcher, who ended up using his lights-out stuff to get a ton of swings and misses. He finished the night with 10 strikeouts, allowing two hits and three walks. <\/p>\n

Not only did he have a great game on the mound, but Ohtani also hit three massive home runs during the game, showing his two-way excellence. <\/p>\n

Ohtani gave the Dodgers six innings of shutout baseball, handing the ball over to reliever Alex Vesia with two runners on base and no outs. <\/p>\n

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Vesia managed to get out of the jam and kept the game scoreless. <\/p>\n

Will Smith went 2-for-4, while Tommy Edman finished 1-for-3 with RBIs. The Dodgers held the Brewers to another underwhelming offensive display, failing to score runs in key situations. <\/p>\n

Overall, it was Ohtani who stole the show, breaking history once again and showing his elite abilities on the mound and batters box. <\/p>\n

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With his heroics, Ohtani became the first pitcher to lead off a game with a home run in the regular season or postseason. Also, he became the first pitcher in Dodgers history to hit a home run. <\/p>\n

His performance is all the more remarkable considering his slash line of .158\/.273\/.368 heading into Friday’s game. <\/p>\n

\u201cShohei is not performing the way he would like or we would expect,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cBut I just know how big of a part he is to this thing.\u201d <\/p>\n

Roberts, however, remained confident Ohtani would make his mark on the postseason. <\/p>\n

“Very confident. I think this is his opportunity to make his mark on this series,” Roberts said pregame. “And, so, we’re going to see his best effort. So, I feel good that he’s pitching for us. And there’s going to be some serious focus and compete tonight.”<\/p>\n

He was getting called out by national and local media over his performance at the batter’s box, but Game 4 quieted the noise. All three of his home runs were more than 400 feet. <\/p>\n

In fact, one of his home runs went out of Dodger Stadium, becoming the second Dodger player to achieve such a feat. <\/p>\n

For more Los Angeles Dodgers news, head over to\u00a0Dodgers on SI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday in Game 4 of the NLCS, completing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-221298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}