Sasaki struggled with his command and walked five in three innings. But Kike’ Hernandez drove in three runs and Shohei Ohtani hit one of the Dodgers’ home runs in the win.

The moment the ball left Shohei Ohtani’s bat, the Tokyo Dome ceased being a baseball stadium and became something else entirely—a temple of noise, a cathedral of pure joy, a place where history was no longer a concept but something tangible,