{"id":749765,"date":"2026-06-20T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:54:12","slug":"shohei-ohtani-announces-birth-of-second-baby-after-missing-dodger-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749765\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani Announces Birth of Second Baby After Missing Dodger Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shohei Ohtani
\n I Missed the Dodgers Game Because My Baby Was Born!<\/p>\n

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\n June 20, 2026
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\n June 20, 2026
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Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani<\/a> is a father of 2!<\/p>\n

The pitching and batting superstar announced early Saturday morning he and his wife, Mamiko Tanaka<\/a>, welcomed their second baby together. He shared an Instagram post that showed a baby dressed in blue, cradled in a matching blue blanket … but did not explicitly reveal his little one’s name or gender.<\/p>\n

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He wrote he and Mamiko are “overjoyed” by their child’s birth and thanked everyone who has supported their parenthood journey.<\/p>\n

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The couple welcomed<\/a> a daughter, whose name has never been shared publicly, in April 2025.<\/p>\n


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Fans noticed Friday night Ohtani was not included in the lineup for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ game against the Baltimore Orioles. The lineup was released — 2 hours late, according to MLB.com<\/a> — and there was speculation he was possibly nurturing left knee inflammation and a blister on his right hand he had been dealing with as of late.<\/p>\n

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But, the Dodgers later announced<\/a> he was “away from the team on paternity” and that he is “expected to be back at some point this weekend.”<\/p>\n

The Dodgers play the Orioles Saturday and Sunday … so we’ll have to wait and see if Ohtani makes it.<\/p>\n

For now, we wish him a huge congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani I Missed the Dodgers Game Because My Baby Was Born! Published June 20, 2026 6:52 AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-749765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749765","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=749765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}