Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani falls victim to MLB history with never-seen-before feat
The Los Angeles Dodgers have hit a rough patch lately, and the NL West race looks like it will go down to the wire. Max Muncy knows the Dodgers are the hunted this season.
'It's not going well for us right now. We got to find a way to snap out of it. No one's going to feel sorry for us. So it's on us to find our way out of it, and we need to do it,' Muncy said.
Off the field, another distraction has surfaced involving Shohei Ohtani. One of his representatives is now linked to a potential scam lawsuit.
'According to the lawsuit filed in Hawaii Circuit Court on Friday, Ohtani's agent, Nez Balelo, increasingly demanded concessions from developer Kevin J. Hayes Sr. and real estate broker Tomoko Matsumoto before demanding that their business partner, Kingsbarn Realty Capital, drop them from the deal,' The Associated Press's Jimmy Golen wrote.
While that situation has created an off-field stir, Ohtani is trying to stay focused on baseball. The Dodgers are currently in Anaheim, where Ohtani made an unexpected bit of history — for the wrong reasons. On Tuesday night, he hit into a triple play for the first time in his career.
'According to Baseball Almanac's tracker of every triple play in MLB history, it marked just the eighth the Angels have ever turned. As for the Dodgers, they have now fallen victim to 24 triple plays. There had never been a triple play in the 152 games between the Dodgers and Angels since the Freeway Series began in 1997,' SI's Sam Connon wrote.
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Ohtani redeemed himself in the ninth inning with a go-ahead solo home run, but the Dodgers ultimately lost in extra innings, 7–6. Despite his star power, this moment marked one of the rare times Ohtani found himself on the wrong side of history.
With the Padres now officially tied with the Dodgers in the division standings, Los Angeles will need to turn things around quickly to hold their ground in the NL West.
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