Is it too late now to say sorry?
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was seen taunting Shohei Ohtani while taking in Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium on Monday night.
The London, Ontario native attended the game with his wife, Hailey, to support his hometown Toronto Blue Jays, sporting a maroon hoodie and a powder blue Shane Bieber jersey.
Watching from a suite along the first-base side, cameras caught Bieber issuing a thumbs-down after the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar parked Max Scherzer’s four-seamer over the right-field wall to extend the Dodgers’ lead to 2-0 in the third inning.
If he wasn’t a fan of that, he was in for a long night.
Ohtani went 4-for-4 with two home runs, three RBIs and five walks as the Dodgers took down the Blue Jays, 6-5, in an instant-classic, 18-inning marathon — tied for the longest game in World Series history.
All four of Ohtani’s hits went for extra bases, becoming the first player to accomplish the feat in the World Series since Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox in 1906.
He laced an RBI double in the bottom of the fifth that halved Toronto’s lead, then came around to score the game-tying run on a Freddie Freeman single.
Trailing 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh, the Japanese phenom knotted the score with a 401-foot bomb to left-center field — his eighth homer of the postseason.
Toronto wanted nothing to do with Ohtani as the Fall Classic showdown crept deeper into the night, intentionally walking him in the ninth, 11th, 13th and 15th innings — setting a new record for the most intentional free passes in a postseason game.
The Blue Jays pitched to Ohtani in the bottom of the 17th, but walked him again on four straight pitches.
The score remained deadlocked at five runs apiece until the bottom of the 18th, when last year’s World Series hero, Freeman, launched a full-count sinker into the Los Angeles night for a walk-off blast.
Los Angeles snatched a 2-1 series lead, just two wins away from their second straight World Series title.
For their generational superstar, it was another one of those nights when even his detractors had no choice but to watch in astonishment.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
