PHOENIX — Even with a surgically-repaired shoulder and amid a second rehab from a major elbow ligament reconstruction, Shohei Ohtani looks just fine. It took just one at-bat this spring for the ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a little extra zip on his fastball. Shohei Ohtani even admitted to some nerves. There was little doubt ...

He started the at-bat from Kikuchi, who graduated from the same high school as Ohtani, by staring at a 95 mph fastball for a strike. Ohtani took a curveball for a ball, swung through another for a ...

After one official spring at-bat ... as Ohtani, the slugger laid off a couple two-strike offerings to work the count full. Then, on an elevated center-cut fastball, he barreled up a fly ball ...

“There was a lot of anticipation for this night, and for him to homer in his first at-bat off ... P.’’ Ohtani took a first-pitch fastball for a strike. Watched a curveball for Ball 1.

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani finished last season by winning his first World Series. He led the National League with 54 home runs and created the 50/50 club by becoming the first player ...

On the very first pitch he saw, Ohtani launched a leadoff home run against his former team, the Los Angeles Angels. The ball left his bat with the kind of effortless violence only he can generate ...

This week wasn’t about the defending World Series champions visiting Japan, or Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s transformation, or even ...

Ohtani is expected to return to the mound in May. Fans also appreciated the bat flip Ohtani did after his home run off Kikuchi.

Ohtani has tested the bounds of the ballpark before, hitting one through the ceiling of the building dubbed “The Big Egg” back in 2016.

In his spring training debut Friday, Shohei Ohtani picked up where he left off in his 50-50 2024 campaign. The Los Angeles Dodgers star hit a full-count, opposite-field home run in his first at ...