The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies on Friday night, but Shohei Ohtani was the story once again.

It was perhaps fitting that Shohei Ohtani should achieve one of baseball’s most remarkable feats with an out-of-this-world performance.

His origin story is unlikely, growing up in a small city in northern Japan where he played catch for hours with his dad, who worked at the local Mitsubishi plant.On Thursday night, the boy from Oshu slugged and stole his way to baseball immortality.