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The Home Run Heard 'Round The World would have rattled lesser pitchers.
Not Kodai Senga.
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Shohei Ohtani greeted his countryman with a 411-foot homer to right-center, his 18th of the season, that awakened both Flushing and Japan on the second pitch in prime time Sunday night.
On a night when Tyrone Taylor helped by throwing Mookie Betts out at the plate on the fly in that first inning, and Juan Soto reached first base on a Betts error with hair-on-fire hustle preceding a Pete Alonso home run in that same first inning, Senga enjoyed the last laugh.
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