"I'm sure I'll be nervous at times,"
"But more than that, I'm just really grateful that I get to play baseball at this time of the year. And just being healthy is really important to me, so I'm just grateful for that."
"I think as he takes the mound for the bottom half, I'm going to take a moment just to appreciate him doing something really unprecedented,"
"He's done a tremendous deal for our ballclub on a micro level - obviously with the talent, the two-way player - but much more broad for baseball. He's just a player that people have to see, want to go see. It's just been a huge benefit to our game, which is great."
Shohei Ohtani took the mound in Game 1 at Citizens Bank Park for his first career postseason start as a pitcher. Ohtani said he expected nerves but felt grateful to play and to be healthy. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts planned to savor the moment, calling Ohtani’s two-way impact unprecedented and hoping for six or seven innings. Ohtani expected adrenaline might boost his velocity but mostly stayed within his normal range. He retired the first inning on 12 pitches with five swings and misses. In the second, a walk and a hit set up J.T. Realmuto’s triple, scoring two runs after a misplay by Teoscar Hernández.
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