SEOUL – Shohei Ohtani and his Los Angeles Dodgers facet shared images of the Main League Baseball star’s spouse on social media for the primary time on Friday, because the crew boarded a aircraft to go to South Korea for the MLB season opener subsequent week.
There was widespread hypothesis over the marital standing of Ohtani, the dual-threat MLB star and a nationwide hero in Japan. The determine of his spouse was a sizzling matter throughout Japanese print and social media on Friday after footage emerged exhibiting the couple collectively.
Japanese media named the girl as Mamiko Tanaka, who performed in Japan’s Ladies’s Basketball League.
Ohtani posted {a photograph} on Instagram posing with Tanaka in entrance of a aircraft with the message “Cannot wait!” in Korean adopted by the nationwide flag of South Korea.
Tanaka additionally appeared in a video posted on the crew’s X account as Dodgers gamers and relations boarded a aircraft.
Late final month, Ohtani introduced his marriage to a Japanese lady on Instagram however gave no particulars about his bride in addition to her nationality. At a press convention the next day he described her merely as a “regular Japanese lady”.
“Ohtani’s spouse” was the highest trending matter on X, previously generally known as Twitter, in Japan, after the pictures had been posted. Nationwide broadcaster NHK and prime each day newspapers put the picture of the couple on the prime of their net pages.
The Dodgers will play Korea Baseball Group groups earlier than going through the San Diego Padres subsequent week. The groups are attributable to arrive at Seoul’s Incheon Worldwide airport in a while Friday.
Ohtani, 29, gained his second Most Worthwhile Participant award final yr after main the American League with 44 house runs and notching 10 wins as a pitcher.
In December, he signed a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers after six years with the Angels.
—Reuters
