{"id":312229,"date":"2025-10-18T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/312229\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:02:11","slug":"shohei-ohtani-electrifies-dodger-stadium-with-dominant-postseason-pitching-debut-and-moonshot-home-run-in-first-inning-of-game-4-of-nlcs-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/312229\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani electrifies Dodger Stadium with dominant postseason pitching debut and moonshot home run in first inning of Game 4 of NLCS \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a crisp October night in Los Angeles<\/a>, Dodger Stadium felt less like a ballpark and more like a movie set. The lights, the energy, the anticipation\u2014it all built toward one man. Shohei Ohtani.<\/a><\/p>\n

In his long-awaited postseason pitching debut at Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers\u2019 two-way superstar delivered a first inning that will live in baseball lore.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a leadoff walk to Brice Turang, Ohtani struck out the side\u2014three Milwaukee Brewers, three electric strikeouts\u2014each one punctuated by a roar that shook the sellout crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His final pitch of the inning, a sweeping sider, that William Contreras swung wildly on. Ohtani stalked off the mound, eyes burning, heart pounding.<\/p>\n

Then, seconds later, he did what only Shohei Ohtani can do.<\/p>\n

Leading off the bottom of the first, Ohtani turned on a slider from Jose Quintana and launched it halfway to the moon\u2014446 feet of pure thunder that left his bat at a staggering 117 miles per hour. The sound alone drew gasps. The ball soared into the night, disappearing into a sea of blue as fans leapt from their seats, arms raised in disbelief.<\/p>\n

It was baseball perfection\u2014a two-way masterclass that reminded everyone why Ohtani is unlike anything the game has ever seen. The unicorn. The Sho-stopper. Regardless of what you call him, he\u2019s one of a kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a crisp October night in Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium felt less like a ballpark and more like…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":312230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,2502,5337,1266],"class_list":{"0":"post-312229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115392711481024627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}