


The Mets are drawing a line in the sand with Shohei Ohtani: No more broken merchandise.
After Ohtani broke a light in one of Citi Field’s auxiliary screens with a scorched foul ball Saturday night, the Mets added a special note next to his statistics on the video board Sunday, writing: “Please don’t break anything else, Shohei.”
It wasn’t the first time the video board operators admonished Ohtani’s brilliance.
After his would-be home run that hooked foul Saturday, the board read, “We’re sending you the bill for that, Shohei.”
Despite playing with a tear in his right UCL that will prevent him from pitching for the rest of the season and perhaps the entirety of 2024, Ohtani has looked right at home in Queens.
During Saturday night’s 5-3 Angels win, Ohtani doubled, tripled, stole two bases and walked twice.
During Friday night’s Mets loss, it was much of the same: The two-way superstar doubled and walked three times en route to an Angels win.

“Oh my God,” losing pitcher Carlos Carrasco said Saturday. “Tip my cap. He’s a really good hitter, pitcher, everything.”
Following the news that Ohtani tore his UCL, which threw a wrench into one of the most-hyped free agencies in recent memory, the sport has watched its singular superstar anxiously.

Though Tommy John surgery — which would be Ohtani’s second — lingers as a potential outcome for Ohtani’s injury, the Japanese star has shown no indication he will go under the knife during this season.

Ohtani, who has a 1.075 OPS and 44 home runs through Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the Mets, is not playing for playoff glory anymore, as the Angels (63-68) entered Sunday 9 1/2 games out of the wild card and Fangraphs gav them a 0.1 percent chance to make the playoffs.
The presumed AL MVP will now enter a free agency chock-full of questions, but that shouldn’t prevent his contract from reaching spectacular sums, The Post’s Jon Heyman wrote this week.