{"id":43142,"date":"2026-06-21T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/43142\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:09:14","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-superstar-shohei-ohtani-becomes-a-father-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/43142\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani becomes a father again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shohei-ohtani-dodgers-dedbd4d0bf5692cd10f1c0bd5a28c315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> is a father again.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar posted the news of his latest addition on his <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZzJkDflbzn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> account Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are again overjoyed to experience this wonderful day in our lives together. Thank you for being born safely,\u201d read a message from Ohtani and his wife, Mamiko Tanaka. They also thanked supporters. <\/p>\n<p>The post showed an image of a baby\u2019s hands and feet in a blue blanket suggesting that Ohtani has a son to go with his daughter who was born in April 2025. Tucked in the baby\u2019s arms was a tiny stuffed version of Ohtani\u2019s beloved dog, Decoy, who also got his own photo at the bottom of the post.<\/p>\n<p>The news that Ohtani was about to have a second child came out of nowhere Friday. He wasn\u2019t in the Dodgers\u2019 lineup, which was posted much later than usual, after the team said he was \u201caway from the team on paternity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The absence of the two-way star did not last long. Ohtani was back in the lineup in the leadoff spot for Saturday\u2019s game against the Orioles. Ohtani also remains in line to make his next start from the mound Wednesday on the road against the Minnesota Twins, manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m assuming the baby is healthy, mom is healthy,\u201d said Roberts, who had not yet had a chance to catch up with Ohtani a few hours before Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>The famously private Ohtani has never publicly revealed his daughter\u2019s name and has carefully avoided showing her face in the rare family photos he posts to his social media.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani is a father again. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar posted the news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3093,2520,55,24484,8,2017,768,4255,9,1946,1199,7],"class_list":["post-43142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-dave-roberts","tag-headlines","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-news","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116786139324342353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}