When the crowd at Rogers Centre roared “We don’t need you!” during Shohei Ohtani’s final at-bat of Game 1 , it wasn’t just noise—it was a statement. A reminder from a city that once dreamed of landing baseball’s biggest global superstar, only to watch him sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers instead.

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But on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium, Ohtani didn’t meet the chant with bitterness or defiance. He met it with a smile.

“It was a really great chant,” Ohtani said through a translator, grinning as cameras flickered. “And my wife really appreciated it.”

The comment drew laughter across the room, a touch of levity before Game 3 of the World Series. Even in the eye of baseball’s biggest stage, Ohtani showed why

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