Greatest Sho on Earth is right here

In a career of doing the improbable, Ohtani achieves the seemingly impossible.

- BILL PLASCHKRE

DODGER STADIUM erupts after Shohei Ohtani launches his third home run in the series-clinching victory.

One minute he was burning through the top of the first inning with three flaming strikeouts.

Roar!

The next minute — literally — he was slugging through the bottom of the first by driving a ball 446 feet into the back of the right-field pavilion.

Roar! Roar!

Three innings later he was doing it again, striking out two batters in the top of the fourth inning before driving a ball 469 feet over the roof of the same right-field pavilion.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

Then in the seventh inning after he had left the mound after six scoreless, 10-strikeout innings, he hammered history again, driving a ball 427 feet over the center-field fence to complete a three-homer night.

Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Shohei Ohtani, do you have any idea how you sound? Dodger fans, do you realize what you're watching here? Los Angeles, can you understand the singular greatness that plays here? Fall Classic, are you ready for another dose of Sho-time? Ohtani and the Dodgers are back on baseball's grandest stage, arguably the best player in baseball history concocting arguably the best single-game performance in postseason history, leading the defending champions back to the World Series with a fourgame sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series.

"That was probably the greatest postseason performance of all time," said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.

The final score was 5-1, but, really, it was over at 1-0, Ohtani's thunderous leadoff homer after his thundering three strikeouts igniting a dancing Dodger Stadium crowd and squelching the Brewers before the first inning was 10 minutes old.