After Shohei Ohtani’s Game 4 performance in the 2025 National League Championship Series, in which he was named MVP after a historic and unprecedented showing at the plate and on the mound, many analysts have chimed in to crown the Japanese phenom as the greatest player the game has ever seen.

We’re watching something we’ve never seen before,” Dave Roberts said. Here are seven reasons this was the single greatest game of all time.

Coming off Shohei Ohtani's amazing performance to finish off the Brewers in the NCLS, Matthew Pouliot takes a look at the scope of history.

The stardust had barely settled over Dodger Stadium before the debate got under way."This is the beginning of every baseball conversation and the end of the debate: Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player who has ever played the game.

Shohei Ohtani did it all — three home runs at bat and 10 strikeouts on the mound — propelling the Dodgers to another shot at the World Series by defeating the Brewers in a game of the ages.

Once Shohei Ohtani homered for the third time — shortly after wrapping up his six scoreless innings on the mound — the superlatives began in earnest.

Ohtani gave up just one hit through six innings when he tired in the seventh. He walked the leadoff batter, gave up a single and was taken out of the game only as a pitcher, walking off the mound to a roar that could be heard to Malibu.

There won't ever be another baseball player like Ichiro Suzuki. There's the batting style that had Ichiro flying toward first base almost before he had even made contact with the baseball, the hand-eye coordination that allowed Ichiro to drop a hit to any ...

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