Three fans. Three home runs. One night for the ages.
The night Shohei Ohtani turned Dodger Stadium into a cathedral of legend, three lifelong Dodgers fans became unlikely witnesses to history — each of them catching one of Ohtani’s three home runs in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.
Ohtani’s performance was the kind that redefines imagination. On the mound, six shutout innings and ten strikeouts. At the plate, three thunderous home runs — each ball launched farther, faster, and somehow more impossible than the last.
The first missile left Ohtani’s bat at 117 miles per hour, soaring 446 feet into the right-field pavilion.
The man who caught it — Randy Johnson (no, not that Randy Johnson) — politely declined interviews but is expected to auction the ball.
Lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan, Randy Johnson, poses with Shohei Ohtani’s first home run ball in the right field pavilion at Dodger Stadium on October 17, 2025. Ohtani hit three homers in Game 4 of the NLCS against the Milwaukee Brewers and also got the win on the mound throwing six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts. (Photo credit: Sports Hochi)
The second blast wasn’t just majestic — it was mythic. Ohtani crushed it 469 feet, sending the ball completely out of the stadium. It was only the third longest home run at Dodger Stadium in the modern era.
Carlo Mendoza, a lifelong Dodgers fan from East Hollywood, was mid-bite into a helmet of nachos in the centerfield plaza when he saw it happen.
“As I was taking a bite of my nachos, I saw Ohtani hit his second homer,” Mendoza told NBC LA. “Then I see a guy in front of me look up — and I think, ‘no way the ball comes out here.’ Next thing I know, it bounces off the roof and into the bushes.”
This is the bush in the centerfield plaza of Dodger Stadium where Shohei Ohtani’s second home run landed. 3rd longest homer in Chavez Ravine history. pic.twitter.com/pgUAZ68V6Q
— Michael J. Duarte (@michaeljduarte) October 18, 2025
Mendoza dove in and came up clutch — securing one of the most valuable souvenirs in Dodgers history. “Catching that baseball was like winning the lottery,” he said. But for Mendoza, the ball’s worth isn’t just monetary. “As the son of immigrant parents, I want to sell it to help retire them. That would mean everything.”
Lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan, Carlo Mendoza, poses with Shohei Ohtani’s second home run ball at Dodger Stadium on October 20, 2025. Ohtani hit three homers in Game 4 of the NLCS against the Milwaukee Brewers and also got the win on the mound throwing six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts. (Photo credit: Michael J. Duarte)
Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy couldn’t believe what he saw either. “They said it went 469 feet,” Muncy said, shaking his head. “That’s wrong. That ball was at least 500 feet. That’s the farthest ball I’ve ever seen hit.”
The Dodgers plan to commemorate that home run with a plaque beyond center field before Game 3 of the World Series — a permanent reminder of the night Ohtani defied physics.
Then came the third act — and with it, completion. In the bottom of the seventh, Ohtani’s final homer sailed 427 feet to left-center, sealing what may go down as the greatest single-game postseason performance in baseball history.
David Flores, who caught that third ball, said the moment felt surreal. “It’s life-changing,” Flores said. “Right when I caught it, people were offering me money — one guy even offered $5,000 cash on the spot. But I decided to hold on to it.”
Experts at SPC Auctions — the same firm that sold Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam ball from Game 1 of the 2024 World Series — estimate Ohtani’s Game 4 home run balls could fetch between $3 and $5 million each.
Three fans. Three stories. Three souvenirs of an immortal night in Los Angeles.
For Ohtani, it was a night that stitched his name even deeper into baseball’s fabric. For Johnson, Mendoza, and Flores — it was the night fate dropped history right into their hands.
And somewhere under those bright October lights, Dodger Stadium still hums — as if replaying, over and over, the sound of Shohei Ohtani’s swing echoing into eternity.