#shohei-ohtani

#shohei-ohtani

For him to express the kind of praise that he gave Dodgers' ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto, even a casual baseball fan will know how much weight it carries. After Yamamoto pitched on zero days' rest in Game 7 of the World Series to close out the final 2.2 innings and capture a championship for his team, Ohtani was stunned, to say the least. "I have no idea how he pulled it off," Ohtani said through interpreter Will Ireton. "I really believe he is the No. 1 pitcher in the whole world."

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many of its GOATs are ghosts, that the former national pastime is easily dismissed as past its prime. It isn't. The 2025 postseason, which ended when the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays in the 11th inning of the seventh game of an ulcer-inducing World Series, stands with any in baseball history.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have forever immortalized Shohei Ohtani's 469-foot home run from the 2025 National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Dodgers have officially hung up a plaque at Dodger Stadium for his home run, as they do for all home runs hit out of Dodger Stadium. Ohtani's out of the park home run was part of his legendary NLCS Game 4 performance in which he pitched six shutout innings while also going 3-for-3 with three home runs.

Shohei Ohtani is slated to start Game 7 on the mound tonight. The two-way star will be pitching on three days' rest after tossing six innings in Game 4 on Tuesday. Manager Dave Roberts told reporters, including Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register, that he's " not sure" how long Ohtani will pitch. Roberts added that he wants to " withhold expectations and kind of read and react."

There are plenty of people speculating how one of the most popular baby names for those born this year and in 2026 in the United States and Japan will be Shohei after what Shohei Ohtani accomplished in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, hitting three home runs and striking out 10 in the Dodgers' clinching win over the Milwaukee Brewers.

The 2023 free agency period centered around Shohei Ohtani. Perhaps the most gifted player in the history of the sport was a free agent, and that gave a host of franchises the opportunity to showcase why the iconic athlete should sign with them.

This is a brutal October for the Angels, and not just because they are defendants before a jury that must determine whether the team is guilty of negligence or ignorance that contributed to the death of one of its players. On the field, baseball's longest postseason drought extended to 11 years. They just hired their fourth manager in five years and gave him a one-year contract, which makes him a lame duck before he ever manages a game.