Shohei Ohtani's last 7 postseason at-bats at Dodger Stadium

He also struck out 10 batters over 6 scoreless in-between that

Means nothing


-- pride

And his strikeouts are on 100mph heaters and his homers literally leave the stadium

Tonight our GOAT on the bump

It’s understandable but a damn shame for fans. Hopefully Betts and Freeman make them pay. It would also help if Pages wasn’t an automatic out.

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It’s understandable but a damn shame for fans

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It's arguably the stupidest rule in all of sports and there's no good reason why it can't be amended (see: shift, DH, extra inning rules, pitch clock, etc).

A poster last night (I forget who) had a great idea of only 1 intentional walk per team per game.

Obviously you can still "unintentionally intentionally walk" Ohtani as we saw in the 17th inning or whatever last night, but the pitcher and manager should have to complete the disgraceful act and be subject to a minute worth of boos and ire from the fans, and making them complete the act also increases the pitch count and risks a wild pitch or passed ball.

If that didn't help enough you could mandate that any pitch too far outside of the zone in back to back to back scenarios results in a warning and then an ejection of the pitcher and manager.

This scenario is where a robot umpire could monitor a LARGER zone which is like 8" larger than the existing strike zone on all sides, and any consecutive pitches outside of this "wider zone" also results in an ejection.

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Toronto isn’t going to pitch to him the rest of the series.

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Toronto wins easily yesterday if they just didn’t pitch to him. Yet they did it four times

There are a lot of options to tweak the rules. It does change the game. But the sport has to think about fans.

I just made a thread about it with a graphic that I whipped up