LOS ANGELES — There are stars. There are rock stars. And then there’s whatever supernatural phenomenon that Shohei Ohtani is.

There is history. There is postseason history. And then there’s whatever that was we witnessed Friday evening from the Greatest Shoh on Earth, in a stadium full of people at storied Chavez Ravine who still can’t believe what they’re seeing, no matter how many times they see it.

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So what was it they saw? There’s no other way to put this:

A man named Ohtani had the single greatest game any human has ever had on a baseball field … assuming that term, “human,” even describes him.

Let’s rip through the highlight reel. It’s ridiculous.

• The starting pitcher for the Dodgers hit three home runs in one postseason game.

• Those three homers traveled a projected 1,342 feet — and it’s hard to know if that projection is accurate, since one of them left the stadium and might still be hopping along the Hollywood Freeway for all we know.

• Meanwhile, in his alternate life as an unhittable bat-destroyer, Ohtani spun off a 10-strikeout two-hitter over the six-plus innings he got to hang out on the mound.

• And hey, just for the fun of it, he threw two pitches harder than 100 mph.

• Oh, and he did this in the game that reserved the Dodgers’ all-expense-paid trip to the World Series, where they will try to become MLB’s first repeat champion in a quarter-century.

• And let’s mention this again, because we really can’t remind you enough: He’s one person, doing all this in the same world we reside in.

“So is there any other human who could do what we saw tonight?” I asked the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, Andrew Friedman, after the electrifying Ohtani led his team to a series-clinching, sweep-cinching 5-1 win over the overmatched Brewers.

“No,” Friedman replied. “He definitely is one of one.”

“Is that now?” I asked. “Or maybe ever?”

“It’s hard to say ever,” Friedman said. “But I’m comfortable saying ‘in my lifetime.’”

For the record, the top of the first inning of Friedman’s lifetime began in 1976.