As the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated their World Series win, a potentially catastrophic loss left Dodger Stadium. Within minutes of the final out of Saturday’s 4–2 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 2, Shohei Ohtani, wearing street clothes and with his hair wet, presumably from a shower, his face impassive, boarded the elevator to the parking lot. He did not appear to be wearing a brace or a cast on his left shoulder, the one that suffered a subluxation—a partial dislocation—on a failed stolen base attempt in the seventh inning.
As he left, I asked him how his shoulder felt. He did not respond. The elevator doors closed.
