Miracle Mets are still trying to solve their Shohei Ohtani enigma

The Mets are showing heart, guts and resilience in abundance throughout their magical and fun October run.All that is wonderful.But it looks today like they are no match for one Shohei Ohtani — whose combination of skills is very possibly unmatched in baseball history — or frankly, the Ohtani Dodgers.Ohtani was alleged here and other places to be in a slump when this National League Championship Series started.

But if he was ever truly struggling, that’s quite clearly over now.Baseball’s 50-50 man looks too good for the Mets, and everyone else.Truly, he’s very likely better than anyone who’s tried playing this game since Alexander Cartwright or Abner Doubleday or whomever started all this.

Next year, he could do 50-50-20 (50 homers, 50 steals, 20 wins), and no one would be shocked.Ohtani’s limited to hitting for now, and that’s enough.He’s hitting homers that look like a “golf ball” (teammate Tommy Edman’s assessment) to parts of Citi Field not often visited.

Those momentary Emmanuel Clase/Mariano Rivera comparisons, always silly, thankfully ended now.But the Ohtani/Babe Ruth pairing remains apt.After putting a bow on the Dodgers’ Game 3 win with a bomb over the right-field foul pole, he set a bad tone by opening Game 4 with a scorcher of home run — 117.8 mph — under the Citi Field bridge in right-center field, leading to a 10-2 Dodgers victory that put them in commanding position in this mega-market NLCS matchup.If the Mets find themselves in a rather unenviable position, at least it’s a familiar one.

This team, all heart, needs a comeback to end all comebacks.No one should consider these Mets officially dead until the coroner confirms, of course.This is a team that has risen like few others.

From 0-5 to start the season and a 22-33 mark in late May, they rose.Time and again, they rose through this late September/October run that has energized all the boroughs.These Mets are comeback specialists, and they need to engineer their...