Latest Shohei Ohtani News
Padres secure home Wild Card Series with 5-3 win over Diamondbacks, who slide in NL playoff race
PHOENIX (AP) — Luis Arraez hit two doubles and a triple, Yu Darvish pitched 5 1/3 gritty innings and the San Diego Padres used a four-run first to beat the sliding Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Friday night. The Padres — who had already clinched a postseason berth earlier this week...
Locked in at the plate, Shohei Ohtani chases Triple Crown entering final weekend of regular season
DENVER (AP) — Shohei Ohtani's locked in at the plate, on the bases, for the NL MVP and now even on the Triple Crown. It's been that kind of late-season surge for the Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter who's already invented the 50-50 club. Ohtani went 4 for 5 —...
Ohtani launches homer No. 54, steals 57th base as NL West-champion Dodgers power by Rockies 11-4
DENVER (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit his 54th homer of the season, a towering three-run shot, after stealing his 57th base earlier in the game and the NL West-champion Los Angeles Dodgers powered past the Colorado Rockies 11-4 on Friday night. The Dodgers designated hitter finished 4...
MLB's postseason is rapidly approaching with NL playoff race shaping up for tight finish
The Major League Baseball playoffs are approaching and a Shohei Ohtani vs. Aaron Judge matchup in the World Series looms as an enticing October possibility. While the rooting interests of baseball fans vary widely, there's little doubt MLB and television executives are drooling over...
Shohei Ohtani heads to 1st postseason after Dodgers clinch NL West title with a 7-2 win over Padres
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is headed to the postseason for the first time in his career after the Los Angeles Dodgers won the NL West on Thursday night by scoring five runs in the seventh inning in a 7-2 win over the second-place San Diego Padres. The Japanese superstar spent...
Dodgers rally with 5 runs in 7th and beat Padres 7-2 to clinch 11th NL West title in 12 years
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith hit a tying, two-run homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers scored three more runs in the seventh to beat the San Diego Padres 7-2 on Thursday night and clinch the NL West title. The rally was dampened by an apparent injury to All-Star slugger Freddie...
Florida man's lawsuit temporarily stops Ohtani's 50th HR ball from being sold
MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man's lawsuit has temporarily stopped Shohei Ohtani's 50th home run ball from being sold at auction after saying it was stolen from him moments after he secured it. Max Matus' representatives say their client gained possession of the Los Angeles Dodgers...
MLB's expanded playoffs are keeping more fans engaged as the regular season hits the final stretch
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — J.J. Picollo sat in the Kansas City dugout on an unseasonably warm autumn afternoon, waiting for the Royals to play the Detroit Tigers in a matchup of AL Central rivals that few thought would be fighting for the postseason this year. Both had losing records...
Shorter games, more running, more action. Two years in, MLB's rule changes have provided a jolt
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two years ago, it looked as if Major League Baseball was having an existential crisis. To many inside the game, it certainly felt like one as a sport built on its timelessness careened toward a future hellbent on speeding things up. Pitch clocks. Defensive shift...
MLB's made a lot of rule changes over the past few years. The most noticeable? A pitch clock
PHOENIX (AP) — Major League Baseball's rule-change bonanza of 2023 altered a myriad of the game's details, including cutting back extreme infield shifts, bigger bases and limits on how many times a pitcher can disengage from the rubber. But the thing that's most recognizable is the...
