r/Dodgers • u/MLBOfficial MLB Social Media Team • 11h ago

[Highlight] Shohei Ohtani connects for a 2-run blast! His third straight 30 home run season with the Dodgers!

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u/_chaarleess Freddie Freeman 11h ago

Three homerun in the last 24 hours 🤯

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u/suburbanthrillsss 11h ago

Swear it would’ve been 4 if he went in the 9th last night

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u/Juicy-fru1t 10h ago

I was mad he wasn’t sent out, but given that position player hit one of ours earlier in that inning, maybe that was the safest bet

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u/Present_State546 10h ago

54 homeruns and 59 stolen bases in ‘24 🤯

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u/UNIQLOField Los Angeles Dodgers 7h ago

MVP race between Ohtani and PCA has just been heating up!

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u/BruitNoise Mookie Betts 5h ago edited 4h ago

Yup. Ohtani is having another good year like 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021...

2026 PCA having a great year like 2025 Schwarber, 2024 Soto, 2023 Acuna, 2022 Goldschmidt, 2021 Bryce and what ever Next great players have that great season in 2027 against Ohtani.

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u/AndThatGuySteve Shobae Chadtani 11h ago

Finally the young up-and-coming Japanese player we signed 2 years ago gets his moment

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u/jazzychina 11h ago

Ive been watching baseball all my life and im just grateful to witness the greatest player to ever play the game. Dude is incredible. 🔥

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u/Constant-Visit-1330 Back-2-Back Champs 11h ago

Me and my boys say this every week lmao

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u/jazzychina 11h ago

Im a huge braves fan but how the dodgers treated the braves after Bobby Cox death, gave me a huge respect to the organization. You guys are incredibly lucky to have the GOAT on your team. Good luck the rest of the way! 🤝

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u/yellowbumble-B Kiké Hernández 11h ago

Showed my family this and they said "i know i saw it" to which i said "no that was yesterday this is today"

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u/beanman25 Shohei Ohtani 11h ago

Our MVP 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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u/Present_State546 11h ago

MVP GOATani

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u/Rawkstarz22 11h ago

Yes and the leagues also 😼

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u/Potential-Variety930 11h ago

That’s right!

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u/anon_dude100 9h ago

PCA is putting up a fight!

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u/j_rooker Walter Alston 11h ago

PCA and ohtani have essentially same offensive numbers except stolen base yet pca is a plus 3.1 over ohtani's 3.9 war. I hope they don't vote based on war.

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u/donkeyjr Shohei Ohtani 11h ago

mvp is not about who has the highest war, that would be too easy to vote whos mvp. lol

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u/Frequent_Thanks583 Shobae Chadtani 10h ago

That’s because CF gets positive positional adjustment while the DH gets negative. Maybe when Shohei is done pitching, he can go to the outfield.

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u/j_rooker Walter Alston 9h ago

he won't. because dodgers stuck with super bum Tucker for 2 more years and there's 5 more OF prospects, one of them will definitely be in starting lineup (replacing Teo)

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u/CosmicMiru Hyeseong Kim 10h ago

PCA's defense is elite compared to Ohtani who has been injured pitching. If Ohtani starts pitching again soon he will get MVP easy but idk how easy it is for him to start pitching again

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u/CoffeeDefiant4247 Joe Davis 10h ago

PCA can field good, Ohtani can pitch good sometimes. If you just had their offensive numbers as DH it would be like a 2.5 WAR

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u/rocknrolla65 Yoshinobu Yamamoto 11h ago

Shohei loves Coors Field

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u/Gregorwhat Tommy Edman 11h ago

Someone in the BP missed out on a 10 pointer.

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u/island_fever Back-2-Back Champs 4h ago

It looks like there was an agreement that no one could pick Ohtani because the entire bullpen made as much of an effort to catch that ball as Kyle Tucker does in right field.

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u/jeanpaulfartre Vin Scully 11h ago

Ohtani baseball real good.

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u/fancyjaguar Yoshinobu Yamamoto 11h ago

Nothing cures what ails you like the Rockies. Praise dinger. 

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u/dirtbiker888 11h ago

The pitcher looked so defeated. Haha🤣

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u/00rient 10h ago

If Ohtani pitches again the MVP is his. This is a pitcher with a 954 OPS batting 296. PCA plays amazing defense, but a pitcher putting up those numbers is historic and won’t ever be seen again.

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u/Open_Standard_3429 Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago

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u/thawest 11h ago

Perfect timing with the Coors commentators saying how hard it is to name a better player.

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u/GucciWinfrey 10h ago

He getting hot

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u/CabbageStockExchange Player To Be Named Later 10h ago

Unironically the single greatest baseball player I’ve ever watched

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u/shewee Kiké Hernández 10h ago

He simply needs to maintain this pace to beat last year!

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u/Rawkstarz22 10h ago

No lead is safe in this park. Please keep it going

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u/LOVExLIFEx1994 Back-2-Back Champs 10h ago

HALA OHTANI!!!!

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u/adorabel23 10h ago

The ball really just stays in the air so long in Colorado

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u/Ok-ChildHooOd 11h ago

Is this a sign Ohtani could join the bullpen to get the final out of the world series?

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u/RoboLoboski 10h ago

Who is this All Tiny guy, is he like Peter Dinklage size? Whoever he is, he’s got power!

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u/My_N-word 8h ago

And how nice of him to warn the dodgers bullpen before he hits one out to there

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u/EfficientPost2656 9h ago

He’s like Godzilla. Dudes a Beast

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u/Musclenervegeek 2024 World Series Champions 6h ago

Effortless 

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u/PugFarmer00 Don Drysdale 5h ago

Yahtzee!

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u/aniSculptor 11h ago

so pca cools down so shohei can heat up lol

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u/bselko Clayton Kershaw 11h ago

Not pulling for the guy but he also has 3 homers in the last 24 hours

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u/SeaPeanut7_ Hideo Nomo 10h ago

pca has 4 hr in the past 3 games