LOS ANGELES — Ten short months after joining the Los Angeles Dodgers with the goal of finally challenging for a championship, Shohei Ohtani is on the threshold of realizing his dream.
The 30-year-old Japanese superstar heads into the first World Series of his career on Friday aiming to crown a record-breaking season by capturing baseball's biggest prize.'I finally arrived at this stage,' Ohtani said on Sunday after the Dodgers clinched their World Series berth with a series defeat of the New York Mets. 'The goal was to get this far.
The Dodgers wanted an elite talent to help get them over the line after years of postseason failures; Ohtani wanted to be challenging for a World Series.'For us it's all about winning,' Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said. 'It jived perfectly with everything was saying.
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