Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani hit a solo home run in his first spring training plate appearance following ...

PHOENIX — Even with a surgically-repaired shoulder and amid a second rehab from a major elbow ligament reconstruction, Shohei Ohtani looks just fine. It took just one at-bat this spring for the ...

Here it is, a nice opposite-field shot on a 3-2 count: That was not Ohtani's first swing of the spring, as he whiffed on a curve from Yusei Kikuchi earlier in the at-bat. Still, as he so often ...

Shohei Ohtani's long-awaited comeback to pitching has been postponed, as the Los Angeles Dodgers are taking a conservative ...

The response to Shohei Ohtani at the Tokyo Dome Friday re-established a longstanding truth about the Dodgers: In Japan’s view, there is Ohtani and then there is everyone else.

Of course, in his very first at-bat of the spring, Ohtani took a 93.9 four seam fastball from Angels pitcher Yusei Kikuchi and sent it the other way over the left field fence, giving the Dodgers ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- As much as Shohei Ohtani relished the opposite-field home run he crushed Friday night in his first at-bat this spring, the reigning National League MVP left the Los Angeles ...

After one official spring at-bat, he already had his first 2025 home run. “He does not cease to amaze,” manager Dave Roberts said of Ohtani’s leadoff blast, an opposite-field drive that ...

Ohtani shook his shoulder after his last at-bat, but there was no pain or discomfort, he said — just making sure everything felt fine. “I was just checking to make sure it was OK,’’ Ohtani ...

On Friday Ohtani hit his first home run of the year, an opposite field blast off Yusei Kikuchi in his first at-bat of spring training. If he keeps up this pace he's going to set some kind of record.

In his spring training debut Friday, Shohei Ohtani picked up where he left off in his 50-50 2024 campaign. The Los Angeles Dodgers star hit a full-count, opposite-field home run in his first at ...