LOS ANGELES — The Death Star is rolling now, friends.

Another day, another victory by the Death Star Dodgers — this time Dodgers 3, Brewers 1, Thursday afternoon at raucous Dodger Stadium.

So we’ve now seen three games in this National League Championship Series. The Dodgers have won all three — and the best way to explain why is to list the hit totals in those three games by a Brewers offense that got more hits this season than all but two teams in the sport:

Game 1 — two hits

Game 2 — three hits

Game 3 — four hits

Get the picture? But if you’ve watched the Dodgers closely in this postseason, you know that something is missing. And what’s that? Aren’t you lucky that the postseason Weird and Wild column is on the case?

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The Shoh must go on

He’s human after all: Shohei Ohtani has struck out 17 times in 38 at-bats this postseason. (Harry How / Getty Images)

They’re now 8-1 in this postseason and one win away from a triumphant return to the World Series. But here’s a question for you to ponder about the Death Star Dodgers:

How scary would they be if the MVP wasn’t hitting .158?

Yes, we’re talking about the most Ohtanic man in the baseball universe, Shohei Ohtani. And here’s how his October is going:

• He’s 6-for-38 (.158) in this postseason, with 17 strikeouts. Ouch.

• Since he kicked off this tournament with a two-homer eruption in his first game of the Wild Card Series, he’s only 4 for his last 33 (.121), with one extra-base hit … and that was a leadoff triple Thursday, with just three singles in two weeks in between. Whoa.

• And over the last two series — against the Phillies and Brewers — he’s 3-for-29 (.103), with 14 strikeouts. Yikes.

So what do you want first — the bad news or the good news? OK, we’ll pick.

The bad news is, there must be some serious disturbance in The Force, because this is not the kind of thing that’s supposed to happen to your average superhero.

But here’s the good news: This has happened to a few MVPs over the years. And we can document exactly who they were.

With help from our friends from STATS Perform, we determined that seven players in history have had a lower batting average than .158 in a single postseason, in the same season in which they won the MVP.