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He also dove to catch a bunt on the fly early in the game.

Ohtani hit an RBI single to center in the bottom of the sixth, capitalizing on Alonso’s poor decision to — unsuccessfully — try and get the lead runner on a Taylor sacrifice bunt in the preceding at-bat.

Not once, but twice in the first four innings of the National League Championship Series opener against the New York Mets, the Dodgers dropped perfectly placed sacrifice bunts, practically a lost art in today’s game.

Believe it, somebody in modern baseball actually bunted their way on base.

Things got exponentially worse in the next at-bat, when a bunt from Brandon Marsh led to controversy at third base.