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The story
On October 8 Japan time, the Dodgers beat the Braves 4-1 on the road, taking the NL Division Series 3 games to 1 and clinching a trip to the League Championship Series for the third year running. In this game, cleanup hitter and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base. Over the series, he’s hitting just .154 (2-for-13), and a US reporter blasted him as the Dodgers’ “run-prevention machine.” On 5ch, a thread mixed harsh criticism of his slump, defenses citing his ongoing injury, and skepticism about making a fuss over such a tiny 13-at-bat sample.
2-for-13 in the division series, batting .154… US reporter mocks Shohei Ohtani’s serious slump as the Dodgers’ “run-prevention machine”
The Los Angeles Dodgers took on the Atlanta Braves on the road in Game 4 of the NL Division Series (NLDS) on October 7 local time (October 8 Japan time).
They won 4-1, taking the series 3 games to 1 and clinching their third straight trip to the League Championship Series. In this game, Shohei Ohtani started at cleanup and DH, going 0-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
From now on, it's Murakami's era.
More accurately, it's the era of Munetaka Murakami and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Murakami's back-to-back 3-pitch strikeouts were pretty rough too. He gets a pass because he's on a weak team.
The real cutting-edge metric these days is 'presence.'
Well, MLB's got plenty of 'dead men walking' (guys stuck on huge contracts who underperform) already, so sitting on the bench looking smug isn't a big deal.
People find perfect guys annoying.
If it's frustrating, well, all you can do is hit~
Truly a cursed piece of gear (equipment you can't take off even when it's hurting you).
His past performance was so absurd that everyone's expectations shot through the roof on their own.
Whether it's simply the injury, the ban on AI pitch-prediction tech, or some combination of factors, they really need to look into it and come up with some kind of countermeasure.
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150M LeBron
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10.81M Ohtani
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Baseball's way too unpopular lol
You typed that in such a rush it came out as 'nstagram.'
Embarrassing.
I want to see the godlike version of Ohtani again.
Even if it's not two-way, going on a hitting rampage like he did in 2024 would be fine too.
Quietly contributed in his own way.
He kept playing through injury.
He let his conditioning slide.
Maybe all of that piled up and everything fell apart at once.
Nobody's talking about it, but Muncy's already hit 3 homers this postseason despite coming off the bench.
If you're a DH-only player, the highest-paid guy on the team, and putting up these numbers, of course you're going to get ripped.
And they still win.
Did something happen? Has he really not been doing much?
Just speculating though.
He's basically there to keep the game moving along.
The Ohtani of last year and before had that in him.
But hey, today's game was good lol. First good performance in a while.
??? 'I don't like guys with low energy'
Lol, someone's own past remark is really coming back to bite them.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Worth noting: this “.154 average” isn’t a season-long number — it’s from an extremely small sample of just 13 at-bats over the division series. Because the postseason is a short series, a single hitter’s numbers can swing wildly, and commenters in the thread pointed to Hideki Matsui, who hit just .222 in the 2009 League Championship Series before going on to win World Series MVP. Ohtani himself has kept playing through an ongoing injury, and the thread’s central tension is between those calling for him to rest and those insisting that if he’s going to play, he needs to produce. It’s also worth noting that the team, including this game, clinched the series 4-1 and secured their third consecutive trip to the League Championship Series — a player’s individual slump doesn’t necessarily track with the team’s win-loss record. The thread also drifted into tangents like comparing Instagram follower counts across sports, but the core of the discussion kept coming back to one question: how to judge a ‘struggling Ohtani.’
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[MLB] US reporter mocks Shohei Ohtani’s serious batting slump as Dodgers’ ‘run-prevention machine’ — 2-for-13 in division series, .154 average.”
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