Entering the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 8-2 win against the New York Mets on Wednesday, Shohei Ohtani held a 48-game on-base streak and had gone 32.2 innings pitched without an earned run.
According to OptaSTATS, Ohtani is one of two MLB players since 1913 to have strung together a 30-plus games on-base streak alongside a 30-plus innings pitched without an earned run streak. The other? Babe Ruth.
Momoyo Kelly is old enough to have watched both Ruth and Ohtani play.
On Saturday, the Dodgers visited Coors Field to take on the Colorado Rockies, and Ohtani took a moment pregame to visit with Kelly, a 100-year-old Japanese woman who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.
Several videos posted on X show Ohtani walking over to Kelly, who rises from her wheelchair to greet him. The Japanese superstar and four-time MVP signed a baseball for Kelly and chatted with her for a little while.
According to the Spectrum SportsNet broadcast, Kelly “loves baseball,” and Saturday’s game was her first:
Unfortunately, the Dodgers lost 4-3, but that’s negligible in the grand scheme.
The Dodgers are 15-5, the best record in MLB, and are the odds-on favorites to win the 2026 World Series. If that happens, the Dodgers will complete the sport’s first three-peat since the New York Yankees from 1998 to 2000.
So far this season, Ohtani is batting .264/.396/.500 with five home runs and 10 RBI. He also boasts a 2-0 record in three starts as a pitcher, with 18 strikeouts and a 0.50 ERA. Ohtani is the odds-on favorite to win his third-straight NL MVP and fourth-straight MVP overall.
The Dodgers will play the third game of their four-game series in Colorado on Sunday afternoon. Ohtani is scheduled to make his next start as a pitcher on Wednesday, April 22, against the San Francisco Giants.
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