{"id":781147,"date":"2026-07-05T19:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781147\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:19:18","slug":"mlb-celebrates-shohei-ohtani-with-birthday-post-featuring-his-dog-decoy-and-career-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781147\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Celebrates Shohei Ohtani with Birthday Post Featuring His Dog Decoy and Career Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Shohei Ohtani has accomplished a lot more than most during his 32 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Sunday is the Los Angeles Dodgers star&#8217;s 32nd birthday, and Major League Baseball celebrated with a picture of Ohtani and his dog, Decoy, as well as a list of some of his career accomplishments:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Those accomplishments are many, as the future Hall of Famer is a two-time World Series champion, four-time MVP, four-time Silver Slugger winner and Rookie of the Year who is well on his way to adding even more hardware to that resume this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">As a hitter in 2026, he is slashing .288\/.403\/.524 with 18 home runs and 50 RBI. As a pitcher, he has a 1.79 ERA, 0.95 WHIP and 95 strikeouts in 85.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">And on Sunday, he will look to help lead his Dodgers to a four-game sweep of the division-rival San Diego Padres on his birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani has accomplished a lot more than most during his 32 years. Sunday is the Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-781147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781147","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=781147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}