Shohei Ohtani had an off night at the World Series but he still breaks baseball logic

Shohei Ohtani draws attention on every one of his at-bats and pitches. Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP

Even Shohei Ohtani’s teammates struggle to find the right adjectives to describe him; ones that express how good he is while emphasizing how unlikely his existence is in the first place.

After Monday’s Game 3, when Ohtani became the first player in postseason history to reach base nine times in a World Series game, Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman opted for “unicorn,” one of the more common Ohtani descriptors. Starting pitcher Blake Snell, meanwhile, put things simple and plain.