LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani continues to prove why he’s the best player in baseball. Ohtani propelled the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-1 win against the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, pitching six innings of brilliant ball while launching three home runs.

When October comes around, baseball’s biggest stars step onto the grandest stage, the World Series. This is where pressure meets glory, and where a single swing can change history. Over the years, a few players have turned the Fall Classic into their personal home run derby,

When there's a power outage, you call Schwarber to get the lights back on. The left-handed hitting slugger has overwhelming power, exemplified by his hitting 56 home runs this season and ranking in the top three percent of MLB in average exit velocity in each of the last two seasons.

Look, I’m going to be honest with you—this whole “Cal Raleigh broke Aaron Judge’s record” thing has me scratching my head a little. Don’t get me wrong, the Seattle Mariners catcher had an absolutely monster season,

Already one of the best players baseball has ever seen, the two-way superstar continues to put on a show in the postseason. In Game 3 of the World Series Monday, he hit a third-inning home run to give the Dodgers a 2–0 lead. The 389-foot solo shot was his seventh homer of the postseason, but he wasn't done for the night.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. refuses to let Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers dominate the story of this World Series. The Jays’ slugger led his team to a 6-2 win over Ohtani and co. with a home run and a couple of RBIs to even the World Series at two games apiece.

Baseball fans continue to marvel at Shohei Ohtani’s performance in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series. He hit three home runs and pitched six innings of shutout ball. This left a lot of people wondering and flat out saying it was the greatest postseason effort of all time.

A feature story published by the Athletic's Warriors reporter Nick Friedell on Friday focused on Podziemski's love of baseball, the sport he grew up playing before focusing on basketball in high school. In the story, the 22-year-old offered a rather outlandish quote about his skill set if he had stuck with baseball.

On the final day of the regular season, Jerry Dipoto sat in the Mariners' dugout at T-Mobile Park assessing the year and playoff expectations when he made a statement that through seven postseason games has turned out to be true about his ballclub.

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