{"id":233173,"date":"2025-10-18T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233173\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:26:06","slug":"shohei-ohtanis-unprecedented-dodgers-night-puts-him-in-league-of-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233173\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s unprecedented Dodgers night puts him in league of his own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is worth the price of admission, which ain\u2019t cheap, by the way. And he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/17\/sports\/dodgers-continue-to-get-most-out-of-their-400m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certainly worth the $2M they\u2019re paying him this year<\/a> \u2014 and probably worth a hundred times that \u2014 in a historically deferred deal for instant amazement and thrills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fairly, the unprecedented two-way performance Ohtani put on to personally usher baseball\u2019s best regular-season team, the small-market Milwaukee Brewers, out of the playoffs and send the defending champion $400M Dodgers back to the World Series was worth everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine anyone\u2019s ever done more in a playoff clinching game \u2014 or any postseason game. Ohtani became the 11th player to homer three times in a postseason game. But of course, no one ever did that while throwing six shutout innings and striking out 10, too, because that\u2019s supposed to be impossible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two-way star Shohei Ohtani reacts in the seventh inning of the Dodgers\u2019 Game 4 NLCS-clinching win over the Brewers Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>This was Ohtani\u2019s signature performance, and it\u2019s hard to recollect anyone having a better one, in any setting. He hit the three longest shots of the game and the three hardest-hit balls, too, and he threw all the fastest pitches of a game that few will forget who witnessed it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is worth the price of admission, which ain\u2019t cheap, by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2323,363,30997,3956,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-233173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}