TORONTO

The chant was thunderous, the message loud and clear: “We don’t need you!”

That was the chant directed at Shohei Ohtani late Friday night by the 44,353 fans at Rogers Centre, and if that sounds like a funny thing to yell at the planet’s best baseball player, they weren’t wrong.

Ohtani, who famously spurned Toronto before signing with the Dodgers, was reduced to being a $700 million sideshow in Game 1 of the World Series. The Blue Jays bulldozed the Dodgers, 11-4, and by doing so, seriously dented the seemingly invincible aura of the defending world champions.

“Turn the page,” Mookie Betts said. “It’s one game. Nothing we can do about it now. It’s all over with. Focus on tomorrow.”

Shocking? Not really. Especially for those of us who bore witness in this building when the Jays

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