Shohei Ohtani trailed by one point in 10 innings and boldly stole second base Roberts: This theft is very crucial

Dodgers Shohei Ohtani was deliberately escorted to base when he trailed by one point in ten innings today, and then stole second base, so that Freddie Freeman was also deliberately escorted to full base, and finally the Dodgers relied on high flying sacrifices to play, Shohei Ohtani ran back to win 4-3, and head coach Dave Roberts said after the game, "Ohtani's theft is very critical."

The Dodgers trailed 1-3 after ten innings, Tommy Edman hit a second base to chase 1 point, Shohei Ohtani was then deliberately escorted, Mookie Betts outfield flyball out but Edman went to third base, and when there were people on first and third base and fell behind by 1 point, Shohei Ohtani boldly stole second base, Freeman was deliberately escorted to full base.

After that, Will Smith was touched, Dodgers squeezed back to tie the score, Max Muncy hit a high-flying sacrifice shot, and Shohei Ohtani ran back to home plate to win.

Roberts said after the game, "Shohei Ohtani stole second base and gave us the opportunity to get Freeman deliberately safeguarded, which was key. We were almost running out of pitchers, so we had to take a gamble."

At that time, the team wanted to avoid consuming more bullpen pitchers, and it would be detrimental to the team if they could only tie the score in such a situation. Ohtani's steal of the base eliminated the risk of a double kill and allowed the runner who scored goodbye to enter the scoring lap.

"If that steal fails, victory may be out of reach. Because if it's just a tie, it's not going to be a good result for us. So it's very important to get the goodbye runners to second base." Roberts said.