Are there signs that Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is ready to break out of his postseason slump?

LOS ANGELES — Dave Roberts was blunt about Shohei Ohtani’s 1-for-18 National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.

“We’re not going to win the World Series with that sort of performance,” the Dodgers manager said .

After going 1 for 7 in the first two games of the NL Championship Series, that quote was repeated to Ohtani during the Japanese portion of one of his infrequent media sessions on Wednesday afternoon. His response, as reported by the Japanese media (and not translated in English by his interpreter, Will Ireton), was essentially “Then if I hit, we will win the World Series.”

Ohtani offered less insight when translated into English. He responded to repeated inquiries about whether his first postseason as a two-way player might be affecting his offense by in