{"id":242729,"date":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242729\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:32:07","slug":"ohtani-my-wife-appreciated-we-dont-need-you-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242729\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani: My wife appreciated &#8216;We don&#8217;t need you&#8217; chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani commended Toronto Blue Jays fans for their creative trash talk in Game 1 of the World Series &#8211; and the Los Angeles Dodgers phenom wasn&#8217;t the only one who enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a really great chant, and my wife really appreciated it,&#8221; the Japanese superstar said Sunday via interpreter Will Ireton.<\/p>\n<p>With Toronto leading 11-4 in the ninth inning of Friday&#8217;s World Series opener, a sold out crowd at the Rogers Center suddenly broke out into &#8220;We don&#8217;t need you&#8221; chant as Ohtani stepped to the plate. The taunts were in reference to the dramatic December 2023 saga of Ohtani&#8217;s free agency, when many around baseball erroneously believed he was on a plane bound for Toronto before he signed a record-breaking 10-year, $700-million deal with the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blue Jays faithful with the &#8220;We don&#8217;t need you&#8221; chant to Shohei Ohtani <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VaIyBnV92b\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VaIyBnV92b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1981924872121913653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles&#8217; manager Dave Roberts <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3378255\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/news\/3378255\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> ahead of Saturday&#8217;s Game 2 that he didn&#8217;t believe Ohtani understood the chants in the moment while focused in the batter&#8217;s box. However, the skipper added that Ohtani likely understood why the Toronto crowd was booing him throughout the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the heavy loss, Ohtani launched the first World Series home run of his career with his only hit in Game 1. And though he went 1-for-4 again in Game 2, he was the last Dodger to cross the plate in their 5-1 win following Will Smith&#8217;s eighth-inning RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani could get the last laugh without having to return to Toronto. The Dodgers could secure a second straight World Series title if they sweep Games 3-5 &#8211; all of which will be held in L.A.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani commended Toronto Blue Jays fans for their creative trash talk in Game 1 of the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-242729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}