Shohei Ohtani awoke on Friday morning in an offensive slump that had spanned two postseason rounds. His team was one win away from a return trip to the World Series, but he had contributed little at the plate in the first three games of the NL Championship Series.

Shohei Ohtani's three-home run, dazzling pitching performance for Dodgers in Game 4 of NLCS will fuel new debate about sports' greatest performances.

No fewer than five reporters soon tweeted that Ohtani was not headed to Canada and remained in Southern California, including USA Today's Bob Nightengale, The Athletic's Jim Bowden, Nicholson-Smith, the New York Post's Jon Heyman and the Orange County Register's Jeff Fletcher.

We are so lucky to witness Shohei Ohtani. That has been true for a while, but never has it been more prominently on display than on Friday night in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.

In his long-awaited postseason pitching debut at Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers’ two-way superstar delivered a first inning that will live in baseball lore.