The Los Angeles Angels have failed to make the postseason for the last eight years, last making the playoffs two years before Shohei Ohtani burst onto the scene. 

Ohtani has been masterful in his first five seasons, winning the 2021 AL MVP and setting numerous records as the modern-day Babe Ruth. 

Yet, Ohtani’s brilliance has not led to winning, with the Angels failing to finish above .500 in each of his five seasons. 

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It appears to be wearing on Ohtani, who has made it clear he values winning as he approaches his massive payday. 

"Those feelings get stronger year by year," Ohtani said Monday through his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, per The Athletic. "It sucks to lose. [I want] to win."

Ohtani is in the final year of his deal with the Angels, signing a one-year, $30 million deal in October to avoid arbitration.

The two-way star is expected to sign the largest deal in Major League history when he becomes a free agent at the end of the season.

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"I’ve never been a free agent before, so I’m not sure how that’s gonna be," Ohtani said. "I’m focused on this season right now. I just want to do my best this year and try to get as many wins as possible."

Ohtani is coming off a month in which his dominance was on full display, launching 15 home runs and hitting .394 at the plate while posting a 3.26 ERA on the mound. 

However, it did not lead to winning, as the Angels went 14-13 in the month of June and sit at 45-46 at the All-Star break, losers in nine of their last 10 games. 

LA could explore the trade market for Ohtani before the Aug. 1 deadline, though the Angels have not shown an interest in doing so. 

"Obviously all the trade stuff, he has no control over, so he tries to not think about it, just focuses on the game that day," Mizuhara said on Ohtani's behalf, according to ESPN. "That's the hardest part about trying to win ballgames every day."

Based on Ohtani’s comments, the Angels need to win, and they need to win now, but LA will enter MLB’s second half with significant injuries. Mike Trout suffered a broken hamate bone in his left wrist and Anthony Rendon has been out since July 4. 

The Angels will need to get healthy if they're to make a run at the postseason, and fulfill Ohtani's desire to win. 

The Netherlands and Indonesia on Monday hailed the return of hundreds of cultural artifacts taken — sometimes by force — during colonial times as a major step forward in restitution efforts worldwide.

The items, ranging from valuable jewels to 13th-century temple carvings, were officially handed back to Indonesia at a ceremony at the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden.

"We are really delighted. This is a very historic moment for both us, Indonesia, and the Netherlands. And the relationship between the two," said Hilmar Farid, director general of cultural heritage at Indonesia's Ministry of Culture. "But I think what we have achieved so far is also a very significant contribution to the global debate about returning of colonial objects."

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The Dutch government announced the return last week of the Indonesian treasures and looted artifacts from Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry welcomed the decision and said the Indian Ocean nation will work to preserve the items, including a richly decorated ceremonial cannon.

They are the first artifacts returned home on the advice of a Dutch committee set up in 2022 to assess requests by countries for restitution of artifacts in state museums. The committee is considering more restitution requests from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nigeria.

Indonesia got back more than the trove of glittering jewels and ancient carvings from a temple in Java, said Farid.

"We consider these objects as our missing items in our historical narrative and of course they play different roles symbolically, culturally," he said. Their return means Indonesia can "reintegrate them into their cultural contexts. And that is, of course, of symbolic importance to us."

Gunay Uslu, the Dutch state secretary for culture and media, called the presentation Monday "a historically, important" event that resonates beyond the Netherlands and its former colony.

"It’s also an important moment for the world because it’s about colonial objects in a colonial context. So it’s a sensitive topic," she said.

A Berlin museum announced in January it is ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa. In 2021, France said it was returning statues, royal thrones and sacred altars taken from the West African nation of Benin. And last year, Belgium returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba.