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The thriller is lastly over.
Two weeks after making the shock announcement of his marriage, Main League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani has revealed his new spouse’s identification – and he or she’s additionally a prime athlete.
Ohtani, 29, on Thursday posted a photograph on Instagram of the couple standing shoulder-to-shoulder beside the Los Angeles Dodgers’ crew airplane as they traveled to South Korea.
The 2-time American League MVP stopped wanting naming her, however the Dodgers later confirmed the lady within the picture is Mamiko Tanaka, a former star for Fujitsu Pink Wave within the Ladies’s Japan Basketball League.
Tanaka, 27, additionally performed for Japan at U16, U17 and U18 ranges, in keeping with her profile on worldwide governing physique FIBA’s web site.
Ohtani, who is understood for his two-way skills on the sector, is a massively standard determine in his native Japan.
He set tongues wagging on February 29 after posting on Instagram that he had married “a Japanese girl,” who’s “very particular to me,” – however sharing no different particulars about her identification.
That announcement surprised followers – and Ohtani and subjects associated to his marriage shortly grew to become Japan’s prime 5 trending subjects on social platform X.
The Dodgers are headed to South Korea for a collection of exhibition video games and a two-game, common season set in opposition to the San Diego Padres.
In December, Ohtani introduced that he was leaving the Los Angeles Angels to signal a report 10-year, $700 million take care of their crosstown rivals following weeks of fevered hypothesis.
Shortly after signing, he made the unprecedented determination to defer greater than 97% of his wage till the tip of his contract.