Shohei Ohtani added a new first to his already unprecedented career on Friday. He disrupted the waters of San Fransisco Bay.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Dodgers star hit his first career splash hit at the San Francisco Giants’ Oracle Park, smashing a first-pitch cutter from All-Star Logan Webb 410 feet to right field, with a 106-mph exit velocity. One of the kayakers in McCovey Cove leapt from his boat to secure the ball.<\/p>\n
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It was the 107th splash hit in Oracle Park history, and the first by a Dodger since Max Muncy’s in 2021.<\/p>\n
It was the kind of hit the Dodgers needed after entering Friday on a six-game losing streak, which has seen a nine-game lead in the NL West shrink to five in the span of a week.<\/p>\n
Ohtani is currently pushing for his fourth career MVP award, leading the NL in homers while slowly making his return as a pitcher. He’s scheduled to make his fifth start of the season on Saturday, with his sixth career All-Star Game waiting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani added a new first to his already unprecedented career on Friday. He disrupted the waters of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[3959,3961,2323,3963,363,3958,2329,3962,3956,3960,99,3957],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-dodger","tag-logan-webb","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-max-muncy","tag-mlb","tag-oracle-park","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-fransisco-bay","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-splash-hit","tag-sports","tag-unprecedented-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","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=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}