The “MVP!” chants echoed throughout Dodger Stadium when Shohei Ohtani came to bat in the eighth inning Sunday night. No surprise there. The Dodgers slugger has been serenaded with such chants for most of the season and will likely be a unanimous choice to win the National League most valuable player award in November.
But when those same chants returned three batters later, as Dodgers cleanup man Tommy Edman, all 5-foot-10, 193 pounds of him, stepped into the box for his final at-bat of an NL Championship Series-clinching 10-5 Game 6 victory over the New York Mets?