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The baseball postseason is where legacies get made or buried, and right now Shohei Ohtani looks like a man trying to dig out. Just two for eight in the NLDS with no extra-base hits and no walks, the Dodgers' hundred-and-forty-million-dollar superstar is quiet when Los Angeles needs him loudest. A second half wrecked by injury clearly hasn't fully healed, and the question hanging over every at-bat is whether the Dodgers have enough around him to carry the weight.
Shifting to the NFL, the Monday morning power rankings have a new face at the top after a chaotic Week Four Sunday. Buffalo and Las Vegas both dropped their first losses of the season, but it wasn't the Bills sliding into the number one slot — another team jumped three spots to claim it after a performance that turned heads across the league. Three unbeaten teams remain standing, and the margin for error just got razor thin.
And keep an eye on Philadelphia, because Saquon Barkley left Sunday's game with a hamstring injury that will require further testing. The early word from Ian Rapoport is that it isn't considered overly serious, but any question mark around Barkley heading into a Monday night NFC South matchup looming on the schedule is worth watching closely.
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