The spectacle began long before it actually began, as it always seems to do with Shohei Ohtani ... reporters stretched out from the gates to Dodger Stadium. When Ohtani took the stage alongside ...

At one point ... Heyward took it in stride, but also noted: “Shohei is the guy to talk about Shohei” — something that has happened less and less this year as Ohtani cut off pregame media ...

It was perhaps fitting that Shohei Ohtani should achieve one of baseball’s most remarkable feats with an out-of-this-world performance ... the game 6-for-6 – its inaugural member.