Shohei Ohtani accounted for 13 strikeouts as he made his first postseason pitching appearance on Saturday, Oct. 4.
Four of those strikeouts he’d like to forget. The pitching/hitting star earned the dreaded Golden Sombrero in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 1 of the National League Divisional Series.
While Ohtani struck out nine Phillies batters while allowing three runs over six innings of work at Citizens Bank Park, he also struck out four times at the plate — including three times getting caught looking. It marked the third time Ohtani struck out four times in a game in 2025. He also got the Golden Sombrero on June 17 and July 29.
As the Game 1 starting pitcher, Ohtani became the first player in Major League Baseball history to start at least one game as a pitcher and another as a non-pitcher in the same postseason.
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