US President Donald Trump heaped praise on Japanese Major League Baseball superstar Ohtani Shohei for his phenomenal performance in a game that clinched the Los Angeles Dodgers’ National League Championship.<\/p>\n
Trump spoke at a White House event on Monday where he honored college baseball champions.<\/p>\n
He said: “I’m so busy, I don’t get to watch baseball too much. I did watch the other night, however. I turned on and there happened to be a Japanese player who is not bad.” The comment drew laughter from the audience.<\/p>\n
Ohtani started as a pitcher in Friday’s game, striking out 10 and holding the Milwaukee Brewers scoreless until he left the mound in the middle of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
He also blasted three home runs as the designated hitter, helping the Dodgers punch their ticket to the World Series.<\/p>\n
Trump said Ohtani is “one of the best pitchers I’ve ever seen, one of the best hitters I’ve ever seen, and that all makes for a nice contract.”<\/p>\n
He had also applauded Ohtani back in April when the Dodgers paid a courtesy visit to the White House after winning the 2024 World Series.<\/p>\n
The president noted that Ohtani had hit more than 50 home runs and stolen 50 bases in a single season, calling the 50-50 feat an “accomplishment unparalleled” in MLB history. Trump also quipped that Ohtani “looks like a movie star.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump heaped praise on Japanese Major League Baseball superstar Ohtani Shohei for his phenomenal performance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[1724,64,63,86319,941,86320,591,44,32363,86323,86324,86325,86322,6216,86321,86326,85,1996,1720],"class_list":{"0":"post-228919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-biz","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nhk","17":"tag-nhk-world","18":"tag-nhk-world-premium","19":"tag-nhk-world-tv","20":"tag-nhkworld","21":"tag-nuclear","22":"tag-public-broadcaster","23":"tag-radio-japan","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-tech","26":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}