LOS ANGELES — Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is worth the price of admission, which ain’t cheap, by the way. And he’s certainly worth the $2M they’re paying him this year — and probably worth a hundred times that — in a historically deferred deal for instant amazement and thrills.
Fairly, the unprecedented two-way performance Ohtani put on to personally usher baseball’s best regular-season team, the small-market Milwaukee Brewers, out of the playoffs and send the defending champion $400M Dodgers back to the World Series was worth everything.
It’s hard to imagine anyone’s ever done more in a playoff clinching game — or any postseason game. Ohtani became the 11th player to homer three times in a postseason game. But of course, no one ever did that while throwing six shutout innings and