The 2024 Seoul Sequence between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres brings regular-season MLB motion to South Korea for the primary time.
Many stars, together with Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, are en path to the showdown, however on Thursday the eye shifted from what’s going to occur on the Gocheok Sky Dome to Ohtani’s love life.
Ohtani shared a photograph along with his spouse, Mamiko Tanaka, for the primary time. He introduced their marriage by way of Instagram on Feb. 28, however did not embody her identify or a picture in his unique submit.
The picture revealed that the two-way star is not the one athlete of their family.
Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto are prepared for #SeoulSeries! 🇰🇷
(by way of shoheiohtani/IG) pic.twitter.com/QESxA7SoKm
— MLB (@MLB) March 14, 2024
Tanaka, a 5-foot-11 ahead, spent 4 seasons within the Ladies’s Japan Basketball League with the Fujitsu Pink Wave.
She signed with the Pink Wave in 2019, and the crew completed the common season with a 13-3 file. The Pink Wave’s most profitable season throughout Tanaka’s tenure got here in 2021. They completed the common season 17-3, together with an 11-1 house file to safe a postseason berth. They gained the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, however have been swept within the ultimate.
Tanaka shot 47.7% from the sector and 69.9% from the free throw line in 28 video games final season.
Ohtani and the Dodgers will face the Kiwoom Heroes of the Korea Baseball Group at 11 p.m. ET on March 16 and Staff Korea on March 18 at 6 a.m. ET earlier than taking over the Padres at 6:05 a.m. ET on March 20 and March 21.