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Ever since resuming two-way duties earlier this year, Shohei Ohtani had been throwing the ball well. It wasn’t until Wednesday, however, that he finally pitched like a frontline starter, too. Coming off his second career Tommy John surgery this year, Ohtani immediately lit up the radar gun with 100-mph fastballs and amassed gaudy strikeout totals with a devastating sweeper. In …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — V of K-pop sensation BTS threw the ceremonial first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodgers game on Monday night after meeting two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. After taking the mound, the singer bowed slightly in the direction of Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who then caught a strike from the left-hander. BTS fans screamed throughout V’s time on …

The Padres and Dodgers have a nice little rivalry going on. After this weekend’s three-game series, in which San Diego took two games, the teams are tied at the top of the NL West division with identical 74-57 records. After scoring two combined runs in the first two games of the series, the Dodgers treated Sunday’s finale as a palate …

As Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani celebrated his 45th home run of the season on the baseball field on Sunday, he made a quick pit-stop: jogging right up to a spectator who had been heckling him all afternoon. On his way back to the Dodgers’ dugout during the ninth inning of the game against the San Diego Padres, Ohtani …

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A heckler next to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dugout spent his entire Sunday giving an earful to the visitors, including a nonstop barrage of digs and chirps at Shohei Ohtani for his hitless performance in a portentous weekend series against the San Diego Padres. When Ohtani crushed his 45th homer and delivered the knockout blow in …

Shohei Ohtani had a little fun with a heckler during Sunday’s 8-2 win over the Padres.  A fan sitting near the Dodgers’ dugout had been giving the star a hard time during the course of the game at Petco Park. So when Ohtani hit a ninth-inning solo home run to extend Los Angeles’ lead to six, he made sure to …

Dave Roberts isn’t planning to use Shohei Ohtani in Thursday’s game in Denver. That was true, the manager said, before Ohtani was struck on the side of his right leg by a line drive on Wednesday in the fourth inning of the Dodgers’ 8-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies. More news: Dodgers’ Will Smith Won’t Play in 2 Games vs Rockies …

DENVER — Is there a scenario where Shohei Ohtani is pitching in relief for the Los Angeles Dodgers this postseason? “Absolutely,” pitching coach Mark Prior told the “Dan Patrick Show” on Wednesday morning, though Prior clarified Wednesday afternoon that the discussions the organization has had about it have been limited solely to clarifying the language of the rulebook and Ohtani’s …

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani racked up seven strikeouts and pitched into the fifth inning. He tripled, scored and reached base twice at the plate. The two-way superstar still couldn’t stop his team from falling deeper into a losing streak in Anaheim. Sound familiar? Angels fans know this melancholy story all too well — and now Dodgers fans have …

Shohei Ohtani’s agent may have ‘misled’ Dodgers star in Hawaii deal, lawyer says  SFGATE Lawsuit accuses Shohei Ohtani, agent of interfering with $240 million Hawaii development  The New York Times Shohei Ohtani, agent accused of exploiting celebrity status to force partners out of $240 million realty deal  Fox News USA Today details betrayal in Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s $240 million lawsuit  Yahoo Sports Shohei …