The Roman Catholic Council of Chalcedon convened in 451. The invited bishops established several doctrines that persist in the Christian and Catholic theologies to this day. One, promulgated by Pope Leo I, states that the Messiah has two distinct natures: divine and human.
The World Baseball Classic is bound to few traditions other than the absence of a pitch clock, but it imbued a messianic quality on Shohei Ohtani. After Japan’s dramatic victory over the United States in the championship game Tuesday...