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Japanese baseball player (born 1994)
Shohei Ohtani is a Japanese professional baseball designated hitter and pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Shotime", he has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Angels and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Because of his contributions as a hitter and as a pitcher, which make him a rare two-way player, Ohtani's prime seasons have been considered among the greatest in baseball history, with some likening them to the early career of Babe Ruth.
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Major League Baseball postseason series
The Division Series (DS) is the quarterfinal round of postseason play in Major League Baseball, featuring the American League Division Series (ALDS) and the National League Division Series (NLDS). Under the current format, the top-two division winners in each league play best-of-five series against the two winners of the Wild Card Series from each league. The winners of the Division Series then advance to the League Championship Series for their respective league.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have the best player on the planet in Shohei Ohtani. The 2026 baseball campaign started with lofty expectations. After all, he was entering the season fully healthy. It looked like this was the first season in several years that the four-time MVP was going back to being a two-way player in …
The Los Angeles Dodgers have an NLCS roster prediction, the full schedule for the championship series is released and Shohei Ohtani's struggles continued.
The Dodgers survived the NLDS despite Shohei Ohtani’s ongoing slump. It leaves them facing two key questions as their postseason progresses