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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Dodgers <\/a>two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani <\/a>delivered a phenomenal performance in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, propelling the defending champions back to the World Series<\/a> for the second consecutive year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ohtani’s game, which included three home runs and ten strikeouts, is being hailed as one of the greatest performances in sports history. Now, a fan who witnessed history has become a part of it.<\/p>\n \u2018I squeezed it like a football, like a baby\u2019 <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n As Ohtani’s third home run ball soared into the crowd at Dodger Stadium, it landed directly in the hands of 35-year-old David Flores, a resident of Santa Fe Springs<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I’m very fortunate to have caught this baseball. It just happened to land in my lap because destiny chose for it to land in my lap,” Flores said.<\/p>\n When Ohtani smacked the ball his way, Flores instinctively knew what to do. Video from the historic moment shows the boxing coach catching the ball with his bare hands.<\/p>\n “I knew the ball was going to ricochet off the people in front of me. It was just my intuition telling me, so I stayed calm,” he recalled. “And I just squeezed it like a football, like a baby.”<\/p>\n Flores made a last-minute decision to attend Friday night’s game and admittedly had to stretch his budget to buy his $200 ticket in the left-field pavilion. For him, it was well worth it, and it’s a night he will never forget.<\/p>\n Flores said when he caught the ball, the people around him were supportive. So far, the Dodgers have not contacted him, but he has received a generous offer for the ball.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Flores said he’s waiting until after the World Series to decide what to do with the ball.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written with information from David Flores’ interview with FOX 11’s David Flores.\u00a0<\/p>\n Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>Shohei Ohtani<\/a>Santa Fe Springs<\/a>MLB<\/a>Instastories<\/a>Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani delivered a phenomenal performance in Game 4 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1184,7,9,8,426,2444,137,1334,592,13072,425,422,127,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-15136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-dodgers","13":"tag-instastories","14":"tag-los-angeles-county","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-people","17":"tag-santa-fe-springs","18":"tag-series","19":"tag-shohei-ohtani","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/snapshot-2025-10-20t062809.659.jpg\")
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