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<\/p>\n Email Link<\/p>\n \n Well, that\u2019s one way to silence a heckler.\n <\/p>\n \n Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> two-way star Shohei Ohtani<\/a> hit a home run in the top of the ninth to cap off Sunday\u2019s 8-2 win against the San Diego Padres, but it wasn\u2019t the home run off Yuki Matsui that had everyone talking; it\u2019s what Ohtani did after rounding the bases.\n <\/p>\n \n Before joining his teammates in celebration, the 31-year-old took a detour to the Padres fan sitting directly next to the visitor dugout.\n <\/p>\n \n The fan\u2019s voice could be heard on field mics throughout the broadcast reminding the three-time MVP of his struggles in the batter\u2019s box throughout the series. Ohtani was sitting at 0-10 \u2013 unusual for him \u2013 before the homer.\n <\/p>\n \n So, after hitting his 45th home run of the season, Ohtani, with a huge smile on his face, ran up to the fan and gave him a high five and a pat on the back.\n <\/p>\n \n The camera cut to the fan who appeared to shake his head while smiling after the interaction. He was then seen laughing while talking to those around him. All in good fun, it seems.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cVery annoying, as he\u2019s in my right ear the entire game. But it was very out of character for Shohei and he was wearing him out the whole game,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said after the game. \u201cIt was good to see Shohei, you know, initiate a high five from him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The skipper added with a smile, \u201cThat was great. That was fun. It was good to see Shohei show his personality.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Ohtani certainly wasn\u2019t the only Dodgers player struggling earlier in the series as their offense only scraped together two runs total in the opening two games \u2013 both LA losses \u2013 before exploding on Sunday.\n <\/p>\n \n His projected 409-foot home run to right-center came with Los Angeles already up by five in the ninth. It was the cherry on top of a dominant outing for the defending World Series champions.\n <\/p>\n \n The win moved the Dodgers level with their division rivals in the NL West, but with San Diego losing 6-9 to the Seattle Mariners and the Dodgers blowing out the Cincinnati Reds 7-0 on Monday, LA now has a game lead in the back-and-forth division race.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Well, that\u2019s one way to silence a heckler. Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-111868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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