Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani can thank Willy Adames for this embarrassing brain fart

Baseball is a game of inches, of split-second decisions, and occasionally, mercifully for the opposing team, complete mental lapses. On Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium, Giants shortstop Willy Adames provided one of the more spectacular brain farts of the 2026 season, and Shohei Ohtani was the delighted beneficiary.

With the Dodgers threatening in the middle innings against San Francisco, Adames appeared to forget how many outs there were, and in doing so, handed Ohtani a free double play in reverse. The sequence, captured and broken down, quickly went viral, with baseball fans everywhere wincing at the mental miscue that gave Los Angeles a gift it didn’t have to earn.

Willy Adames appeared to forget how many outs there were and gifted Shohei Ohtani a free double play pic.twitter.com/vDeHgGddZW

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The blunder was especially painful for the Giants, given the context. San Francisco was already reeling from the Dodgers snapping a four-game losing streak the night before, with Mookie Betts going deep in just his third game back from the IL, and the last thing their defense needed was to hand the most dangerous lineup in baseball any additional runway.

For Ohtani, the moment was just another chapter in a season that has already featured his dominance on the mound and superhuman durability. Whether he earns it the hard way or has it handed to him, the reigning unanimous MVP knows how to make the most of every opportunity. The two-way superstar is slashing at a clip that has kept the Dodgers among the NL’s elite, and moments like this, where the opposition gifts him an out that he didn’t have to sweat for, only add to the mythology.

Adames, for his part, will want to move on from this one as quickly as possible. Mental errors are part of the game, but in a rivalry as heated as Dodgers-Giants, forgetting the outs against the best player on the planet tends to follow you around for a while.

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