LOS ANGELES — Because he can bend the sport of baseball to his will, because he does things that leave his peers slack-jawed, because he reveals so little of how he accomplishes any of it, the moments when Shohei Ohtani elicits the most shock are the ones in which he appears human.
In the seventh inning of the Toronto Blue Jays’ 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series, Ohtani experienced one of those moments Tuesday. He cast his eyes toward the dugout and then toward the ground as he saw Dodgers manager Dave Roberts approach. Ohtani relinquished control of the baseball, and control of the game, to his manager. He yanked off his glove and muttered to himself. For those brief moments, he looked exactly like what he was at Dodger Stadium: a great player bested by a team capable of matching his individual greatness.
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“I feel really good about this team every night,” Toronto manager John Schneider said. “It’s hard to play 18 innings and come back and kind of flip the narrative against a very talented team and a very talented individual in Shohei Ohtani on the mound.”
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