While he wait to see which of the Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays will earn the unenviable task of taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, the whole sport is still trying to come to terms with the greatest single game performance in the sports history. Shohei Ohtani single-handedly polished off the Milwaukee Brewers by hitting three home runs, including one of the longest shots ever seen in Chavez Ravine, while firing six scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts. To do all that in winning a league championship series puts it even further over the top as the sports greatest single game ever played.
As FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann explored on Saturday, there are only a handful of postseason games that could even begin to be compared to the Shohei Game.
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