On Friday night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, fans witnessed perhaps the greatest game by a player in the history of baseball, and one of the handful of greatest individual performances in any sport ever. But Shohei Ohtani’s performance shouldn’t be of interest just to sports fans. His triumph offers all of us a ray of hope at a troubled time.
Ohtani, the most talented baseball player in history, put on a show for the ages. Facing the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, looking to clinch a berth in the World Series for the Dodgers, Ohtani threw a two-hit, 10-strike-out gem over six-plus scoreless innings. He also hit three monstrous home runs, which together traveled more than 1,300 feet, including one towering blast that cleared Dodger Stadium. (He is only t