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Moments after the Dodgers beat the Braves 4-1 on the road in Atlanta to close out Game 4 of the Division Series and clinch their spot in the NL Championship Series, it became a hot topic that Shohei Ohtani was missing from the commemorative image the team’s official X account posted. On the 5ch “Geinou Sports Hōchi+” board, threads were split between voices calling the snub fair given Ohtani’s slump late in the series, and backlash arguing it ignored the contributions that had carried the team to this point — with many posts also comparing him to the performances of Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki.
[Dodgers] Shohei Ohtani Clinches Spot in NL Championship Series — Fans Stunned by Shocking Snub from Official List: “This Is Disappointing”
The Dodgers beat the Braves 4-1 on the road in Atlanta on the 7th (the 8th, Japan time) in Game 4 of the Division Series, clinching their spot in the NL Championship Series.
Right after the final out, an image posted by the team’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, titled “The Los Angeles Dodgers Have Clinched Their Spot in the NL Championship Series,” caused a stir.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Teoscar and Kiké (Hernández) are the usual pattern too — rest all season, then show up big in the postseason
If they really wanted to
they could push him into voiding the contract himself
Just bench him and freeze him out, and Ohtani would end up asking to terminate the deal on his own
He's not the type like Rendon who's happy collecting a paycheck without playing
He's the type who gets irritated if he can't get in the game
He'll never have to worry about money for the rest of his life anyway
Baseball's a 9-man game after all
Guess we'll see how next year goes
What was it he hurt again?
Acuña especially is getting slammed hard right now
Is the Dodgers' roster really so thin they have to run a guy hitting .100 out there at DH?
Betts might be a toss-up with guys like Smith, Pages, Rojas, and Vesia though
Tani-hei's gonna pull it off for sure, Jay! (a deliberately garbled, broken-sounding nickname for Ohtani)
Though he did carry the regular season, to be fair
Kiké hasn't done anything either
They're still alive so there's a chance left, but he looks like he's in bad shape
Judge, Ohtani, and Sato-teru (nickname of NPB slugger Teruaki Sato) could make one more run of it together
but all I remember is him striking out or hitting weak grounders in big spots, always letting you down
I always wondered if he really comes through in the clutch — guess he probably doesn't
Stat-wise, Reikuro is genuinely awful
Hasn't been able to hit anything down the stretch
It's exactly this kind of numbed-out sense of entitlement that has everyone chanting 'Ohtani, Ohtani' nonstop
No wonder Betts is getting sick of it too
Of course the contract was presumably signed with that decline already priced in
Next year the criticism will get even worse, and I bet he gets traded after the 2028 LA Olympics
Not gonna happen
Not even if he quit pitching
That recovery/adjustment window matters too much
Yoshinobu's actually delivered results though
Well, this year's MVP performed just fine normally
so you can't really say anything there
and he's not even a DH, plus there are way more games than in Japan
He wasn't hitting even before the rest though
That'd make sense if the rest itself triggered the slump, but it didn't
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The whole controversy traces back to a single social media post: right after the Dodgers beat the Braves 4-1 in Game 4 of the Division Series to clinch their spot in the NL Championship Series, the team’s official X account shared a commemorative image that happened to leave out Shohei Ohtani — there was no official announcement cutting him from anything. Even so, the thread split between posters calling the omission “fair” given his late-series batting slump and the oft-mentioned frequency of runners left on base, and those arguing it ignored his two-way contributions across the regular season. Many posts also compared him to the performances of the Japanese pitching corps — Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki among them — reflecting this season’s tendency to measure Ohtani’s individual standing against the pitchers. Some speculation about a ligament injury or a possible trade also surfaced, but it’s worth noting none of that is based on any official team announcement — it remains pure speculation.
*This article was compiled by excerpting and summarizing the 5ch (Geinou Sports Hōchi+) thread “[MLB] Shohei Ohtani Clinches Spot in NL Championship Series but Fails to Contribute, Shockingly Snubbed from Team’s Official List — Fans Stunned: “This Is Disappointing”” from 5ch.
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