Blue Jays - 6, Dodgers - 2
Q. How many hours of sleep did you get last night? What time did you get to bed? And did you feel any differently today on the mound than you do during a normal start?
SHOHEI OHTANI: Slept at 2:00 a.m. Felt pretty good about being able to have quality sleep.
Q. You felt about the same as you normally do during a start?
SHOHEI OHTANI: Yes, I was able to get on the mound in pretty good condition.
Q. Why do you think you guys, as an offense, maybe haven't quite been able to click in October quite like you were able to during the regular season?
SHOHEI OHTANI: You know, we're facing quality arms this time of the year against really good teams, and we're facing the best of the best, so I think it's not that easy. But at the same time, we could do at least the bare minimum to be able to put up some runs.
Q. Last night was a weird game because of all the intentional walks, but generally, what are the differences that you find in how teams pitch you when the guys ahead of you get on base as opposed to tonight when they don't get on base?
SHOHEI OHTANI: We've got a list of postseason, regular season, I think, when there's guys on base versus not on base. You're going to just see different ways of being attacked. But my approach is pretty simple. I swing at strikes and don't swing at balls, and that's how I evaluate myself.
Q. When your team uses as many pitchers in as long a game as last night, does a start today feel any different for how much length you feel you have to give and quality you have to give?
SHOHEI OHTANI: Yes, I did. Whether it's during the regular season or the postseason, my goal is to be able to pitch six innings, and the situation, this game, I wanted to go seven, and it was regrettable that I wasn't able to finish that inning.
Q. While you've been a pitcher and hitter many times before, you've never done it in this type of high intensity 24-hour span that you had with a long game on the previous night. Was it more challenging than you thought, body-wise, coming back, was it different than you thought it might be, and how challenging maybe was that for you today?
SHOHEI OHTANI: Although we did lose the game, I thought I had a productive experience being able to experience this situation. I mean, looking at guys, like, even Will Smith who caught every single inning out of that 18-inning game, I think it was really impressive to see. So we just have to turn the page and focus on the next game.
Q. From your view, what went wrong on the sweeper on the home run pitch to Guerrero? And then turning around, what made it, as a batter, so difficult facing Bieber for you today?
SHOHEI OHTANI: Obviously, looking back in hindsight, it was just a regrettable pitch, something I wish that I could have taken back. It was just a bad spot, that location.
Bieber pitched really well. He attacked really at the edge and was able to execute location-wise.
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