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Greater Than Ohtani? How Other Top Performances Match Up Against the Dodgers’ Two-Way Star

At the intersection of the Venn diagram of ways to achieve greatness, Shohei Ohtani makes for a population of one.

There have been 701 games in which a player hit three home runs, postseason included. There have been 10,259 games in which a pitcher struck out 10 batters or more. Those sets of greatness had never intersected, nor would anybody expect them to, until Ohtani rewired our minds to what is possible.

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