The Dodgers will begin their National League Division Series against the East Division champion Philadelphia Phillies Saturday in Philadelphia with Shohei Ohtani set to accomplish another previously unprecedented feat.

When Ohtani takes the mound at Citizens Bank Park in the bottom of the first inning to make his postseason pitching debut, he will become the first player to start at least one game as pitcher and at least one as a non-pitcher in a single postseason, according to Sarah Langs, a researcher with Major League Baseball.

Ohtani did not pitch in 2024 during the Dodgers’ run to the World Series championship as he recovered from a procedure to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow performed on Sep. 19, 2023. The Angels never reached the postseason in his six s

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