Then Shohei Ohtani happened. It’s easy to make too much of Ohtani’s two-out, three-run homer to tie the game in the bottom of the second inning, but it’s riskier to make too little of it. It was an absolute bolt that woke everyone up,

Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani makes his Major League Baseball playoff debut on Saturday as the Los Angeles Dodgers launch their post-season campaign against the San Diego Padres.Ohtani, who played for the Los Angeles Angels and missed the playoffs in his first six MLB seasons,