It's October. Every pitch matters more now — and Shohei Ohtani has been here before: 11 career playoff home runs and counting.
Ohtani went 1-for-8 in three games this week, and the Dodgers trail the Brewers 1-0 in the NLCS. He is 3-for-16 this postseason with no home runs or RBI, after finishing the regular season with 30 home runs, an .889 OPS and a 1.79 ERA, which is rare for a starter.
October
11 career playoff home runs — and counting.
2026 Postseason
Career Postseason
Hitting & Pitching
At the plate
Hitting · How he's doing this season
October has started quiet, but this is the month his bat was built for.
He finished with 30 home runs and 81 RBI in 139 games, a top-of-the-order season that carried the Dodgers here. He's just 3-for-16 this postseason, but he has 11 playoff homers in 38 career games, and with Milwaukee up 1-0, one swing can change a series.
On the mound
Pitching · How he's doing this season
When he takes the ball, the other dugout knows it's in for a long night.
In 14 starts he threw 85.2 innings with a 1.79 ERA, allowing fewer than two earned runs for every nine innings. He also struck out ten batters per nine. That's front-of-the-rotation work, and the Dodgers need it now, trailing Milwaukee 1-0.