SEOUL: Shohei Ohtani got his Los Angeles Dodgers career off to a winning start on Wednesday (Mar 20) in a 5-2 victory over the San Diego Padres in their Major League Baseball season-opening clash in Seoul.
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani reacts during the first inning of the 2024 MLB Seoul Series baseball game between Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on Mar 20, 2024. SEOUL: Shohei Ohtani got his Los Angeles Dodgers career off to a winning start on Wednesday in a 5-2 victory over the San Diego Padres in their Major League Baseball season-opening clash in Seoul.
His every move this week in baseball-loving South Korea has been headline news and Gocheok Sky Dome was packed with fans wearing his number 17 jersey for the first MLB regular-season game to be played in the country. The party atmosphere continued as the game began, with music blaring and drums pounding as Dodgers lead-off batter Mookie Betts faced Padres starting pitcher Yu Darvish."Everyone was occupied by the game. No one was on their phone or looking around, everyone was locked in, so that was cool."Ohtani and Darvish were squaring off against each other for the first time. They had been teammates on Japan's World Baseball Classic-winning team last year.
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