#MLBVideos: EVERY at-bat from Shohei Ohtani’s Postseason DEBUT! (2024 World Champion) | 大谷翔平ハイライト

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1. cmon mlb smh

2. FIRST PIN PLSSS THIS WAS ONE MIN LETS GO DODGERS 🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙

3. Still has more rings then the Mardes 😂

4. Milking that traffic from Japan

5. Even without much incredible performance in the World Series. He's still one of the reasons the Dodgers are in the playoffs.
   Every Dodgers player is the most important player to win the championship.
   🎉🎉🎉🎉

6. Free Ippei

7. https://youtu.be/_heq6CkeMH8?si=ufWylmcdNlFwAx24

8. SHOHEI OHTANI🇯🇵DODGERS

9. dude was somehow less impactful than Aaron Judge in the World Series, MVP Curse maybe?

10. It's absolutely fascinating how almost everyone conveniently developed a selective memory about Ohtani's injury, right? It's like, who even remembers that inconvenient little detail of his shoulder dislocating in Game 2? It's almost like injuries are just totally minor inconveniences that don't have any impact at all, especially on the shoulder of an athlete who just might need it for, oh I don’t know, hitting and running.

    But let's not trouble ourselves with such trivialities, shall we? I’m sure there’s some cosmic truth in overlooking the fact that Ohtani couldn’t exactly dazzle us from the dugout while nursing what is surely just a slight, insignificant shoulder dislocation. I mean, why let a practical necessity like a functioning shoulder interfere with a good old-fashioned narrative about his supposed lack of performance through injury-induced pain after Game 2?

    And before that injury, it's as if Ohtani's clutch double in Game 1, the one that tied the game 2-2 in the 8th and set up Freddie's grand slam, never happened. Funny how that moment doesn't fit the narrative, huh? Heaven forbid we recognize how that hit prevented the Yankees from casually strolling through Game 1 without a dramatic, spirit-crushing walk-off. And sure, let's keep pretending that Ohtani's pivotal contribution to the Dodgers' spark was just completely irrelevant.

    Seriously, it seems like no one remembers Ohtani's great LCS performance before the devastating injury, where he had 1.184 OPS, .364 batting average, leading with 9 runs all while moonwalking through bases with his 17 TIMES on base. With a mind-boggling .818 with RISP, the dude basically turned baseball into an artform. He was the unsung NLCS MVP. But of course, let's pretend none of that brilliance ever happened, all because he didn't magically homer in every game with just one hand in the WS.

    Not to mention Ohtani saved the team from getting swept by the Padres with his clutch 3-run homer. Without Ohtani, the Dodgers would’ve undoubtedly thrown in the towel in that game and gracefully rolled over, just as they’ve perfected in the last two years.

    In summary; these casual critics have such a gift for missing the point entirely, don't they? Overlooking his obvious injury and instead, conveniently summing up his WS as "did nothing", as if the obstacles he faced weren't glaringly obvious and didn’t carry the Dodgers to the WS.

11. New Yorkers are still crying😭😭😭

12. People so obsessed about his WS performance and not looking back on his performance during the NL West championship series, NLDS, and NLCS. it's about time other players do their job in the WS. After all, shohei can't really exert himself given his should dislocation.

13. Shohei carried his team to the playoffs when his teammates got injured. And when Shohei got injured and can’t play well in WS, his teammates stand up. That’s how Dodgers win the championship with great teamwork.