NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani perked up when he heard his name.
“I told him,” Dodgers backup catcher Austin Barnes said after Ohtani’s three-run moonshot iced an 8-0 victory over the Mets in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, “hit the ball over the fence.”
“Not bad advice,” Ohtani said.
Barnes clapped his hands three times. “Like, ‘Today, man, over the fence.’”
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Ohtani beamed as he dressed to leave the ballpark, two victories away from the World Series.
“Good coaching,” Ohtani said.
The game is not that easy for Ohtani. But sometimes he can make it look so, as he did in the eighth inning Wednesday, hitting a ball that looked capable of
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