🥎大谷くん旋風-3 ’25
輝かしいスターについてTae Hyung, Kevin Chen、 横綱大の里を挙げるなら、大谷君のことも書かないと不公平かな。
No word to say about his historic performance on the MLB Semi Final on the 18th of Oct. 2025!
Shohei Ohtani paints his two-way masterpiece and sends Dodgers to World Series
By Fabian Ardaya NYT
Oct. 18, 2025
LOS ANGELES — The legend painted his magnum opus on Friday night, with the Los Angeles Dodgers on the verge of the World Series.
Shohei Ohtani has tested the bounds of human comprehension for what a baseball player can do on a diamond from the moment he forced his way onto the radar. He has changed rules and challenged conventional wisdom and now, on the largest of stages, has his masterpiece.
Ohtani is the unicorn who flips his bat when he launches baseballs out of the stadium, the monster pitcher who grunts and pumps his fist after unleashing devilish splitters. It should not make sense that those two things are possible from one man, nor should it ever appear normal what Ohtani is capable of doing.
There will be 52,883 who will say (and millions more who will claim) they were there the night Ohtani put together perhaps the finest individual postseason performance this game has seen, who witnessed Ohtani launch two balls nearly out of Dodger Stadium and add a third blast for good measure, who watched him mow down a hapless Milwaukee Brewers lineup to send his team back to the World Series.
Those fortunate enough to see it firsthand could still not fathom what they’d just witnessed: The six scoreless innings in which Ohtani, in his 16th start since a second major elbow ligament reconstruction, struck out 10 batters and had perhaps his best splitter of the season. The three home runs, each as impressive as the last, including one that rocketed past the pavilion seats in right field and even stunned some of the most talented players in the world. A 5-1 Dodgers win to clinch the series might as well have been 3-0, Shohei Ohtani over the Brewers.
“It’s the limitations of the human brain,” said Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. “We can’t comprehend just how special this is and how unique. It’s one of one.”
“There’s a reason he’s the greatest player on the planet,” manager Dave Roberts said. “This is a performance that I’ve just never seen. No one’s ever seen something like this.”
The shock and awe did not set in even as the Dodgers accomplished their own history. It is their fifth pennant in the past nine seasons, and the Dodgers joined the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies as the only reigning World Series champions in the last 23 years to return to the Series.
They can thank the greatest performance in the greatest career we might ever see, the night that Ohtani flashed schoolyard-like abilities that had to be witnessed to be believed. The stat line borders on preposterous. The degree of difficulty boggles the mind of those who play a game that is increasingly specialized by the year.
