The Los Angeles Dodgers picked up right where they left off—another division crown, another pennant, and now back-to-back World Series titles, the first team in 25 years to do it. With Shohei Ohtani declaring in English after the repeat that they’re already eyeing a third straight championship, it’s clear the Dodgers wouldn’t be here without him. But this story runs deeper than most realize.

Let’s look at two very different moments. One moment is from the Dodgers’ 2025 World Series parade shared by a fan account, @ShotimeLAD on X. The 15-second video shows Ohtani standing on a balcony with his wife, Mamiko Tanaka. Confetti is falling everywhere, and Tanaka adjusts Shohei’s gesture for a photo. The fan wrote, “Shohei and Mamiko! She’s trying to get him to take a nice photo 😭”.

Now, here is the second moment. Ohtani’s father, Toru Ohtani, spoke after his son’s unreal NLCS game, where Shohei hit three homers and struck out ten batters. “Too good to be true. Once you pull something like that off even once, people start saying, ‘do it again next time,’ and as a parent, it’s kind of scary,” His father said. “He ends up being burdened with such expectations, and I feel sorry for him.”

So, basically, when Shohei celebrated his title, his father felt worried and sorry at the opposite part of the world for the man the world calls a superhero.

And not lying, we can all feel for his father. What more can Shohei Ohtani possibly do? After finishing his back-to-back fantastic regular season with 55 home runs and 20 stolen bases in a season when he returned to pitching after his surgery and posted a brilliant 2.87 ERA over 14 starts, what more can we ask from him? But he’s not tired of playing clutch.

His overall postseason numbers, hitting .265 with eight homers, were solid. Still, his performance in Game 4 of the NLCS against the Brewers may be the best playoff or individual performance ever in baseball.

Shohei hit three homers in his three at-bats in a day when he punched out 10 Brewers in his second start of the postseason. Nobody has done that before, and almost over 90 percent of the players will be considered great if they even reach half of that.

Then came Game 3 of the World Series against the Blue Jays that lasted 18 innings. Ohtani put on a show for the ages in that game when he reached base a record nine times and smashed four extra-base hits.

It tied with a 119-year-old World Series record, and the Jays got so terrified that they intentionally walked him four times in that game.

But still, this was not the first time Ohtani played like a legend

Shohei spent his first six seasons with the Los Angeles Angels before his second straight title with the Dodgers in his first two seasons.

Shohei won the 2018 American League Rookie of the Year Award with the Angels. Then he won two unanimous AL MVP awards in 2021 and 2023, hitting 46 and 44 homers there.

Plus, he was doing all that besides Mike Trout, another best of the generation. Yet, the team never made a single playoff appearance.

The Dodgers, however, were a different story. They had won 11 of the last 12 NL West titles and also appeared in three of the last seven World Series, even before Ohtani arrived in LA. And with him, they are just more formidable than they ever were, winning two back-to-back.

So, what is next for Ohtani and company? The confetti from the parade is barely cleaned up, but the hunt for a third straight title has already begun. And again, this is a feat last done by the 1998-2000 New York Yankees Dynasty.

But with the core of Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, and Mookie Betts returning for the 2026 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers will surely lead the charge.