{"id":368814,"date":"2026-06-21T02:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368814\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:17:14","slug":"dodgers-superstar-shohei-ohtani-says-he-is-a-father-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368814\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani says he is a father again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani is a father again.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar posted the news of his latest addition on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZzJkDflbzn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> account Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are again overjoyed to experience this wonderful day in our lives together. Thank you for being born safely,\u201d read a message from Ohtani and his wife, Mamiko Tanaka. They also also thanked supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The post showed an image of a baby&#8217;s hands and feet in a blue blanket suggesting that Ohtani has a son to go with his daughter who was born in April 2025. Tucked in the baby&#8217;s arms was a tiny stuffed version of Ohtani&#8217;s beloved dog, Decoy, who also got his own photo at the bottom of the post.<\/p>\n<p>The news that Ohtani was about to have a second child came out of nowhere Friday. He wasn&#8217;t in the Dodgers&#8217; lineup, which was posted much later than usual, after the team said he was \u201caway from the team on paternity.\u201d Ohtani is expected back sometime this weekend for a series against the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Dave Roberts said Friday night he found out \u201cvery recently\u201d that Ohtani was going to be a father again.<\/p>\n<p>The famously private Ohtani has never publicly revealed his daughter&#8217;s name and has carefully avoided showing her face in the rare family photos he posts to his social media.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani is a father again. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar posted the news of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13359,6632,5167,7,426,48,52,51,47,50,49,127,136],"class_list":["post-368814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-california","tag-dodgers","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368814","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=368814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}