Right before Shohei Ohtani delivered the first pitch to Mike Trout in the last at-bat of the World Baseball Classic, Joe Davis called it “the dream matchup.” Usually announcers call things “dreams” when they mean that someone has been looking forward to it, but this felt dream-like in a more literal way: hazy and unreal and hard to believe, like it had been willed into existence by the collective subconscious of every baseball fan.