This rule alteration allows a team to leave a departed pitcher in as the DH for the remainder of the game. So when Ohtani leaves the mound, he essentially morphs from a pitcher in the batting order to just a designated hitter in the batting order. The Dodgers won't have to let their relief pitchers hit. Ohtani will hit for them.

On Thursday, New York sports radio personality Craig Carton pointed out the oddity between how MLB handled Ohtani’s betting scandal, which landed his translator, Ippei Mizuhara, in prison for 57 months, and this FBI ring involving some in the NBA?

Shohei Ohtani's wife Mamiko Tanaka continues to be a bit of a mystery, but there is one thing she found funny during the Dodgers' World Series run.