[Commentary]Big Papi praises Shohei Otani’s first home run of the season! We also highlight the achievements of Japanese players.

Shohei Otani’s first home run of the season is a three-run hit! Three MLB legends will thoroughly explain the game in which the Dodgers’ batting lineup exploded. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 April 4, 2026 (Japan time) 🏟️ Nationals Park📊 Dodgers 13 – 6 Nationals━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In the first six games, they had three hits in 18 at bats and no home runs. No RBIs either. While the media was buzzing with questions like “Ohtani’s poor performance?”, the legends unanimously declared, “We weren’t worried in the slightest.” In the third inning, with a three-run behind, Shohei Otani caught the ball from Mikolas and hit the right center stand for his first three-run shot of the season. They tied the score with one shot, and the Dodgers’ batting lineup was fully awake from there. Immediately after, Betts hit a two-run home run, Freeman hit a two-run home run in the 5th inning, and in the 7th inning, Tucker made his first solo home run since joining the Dodgers. It was a spectacular turn of events, with the top four players all hitting home runs: No. 1 Otani, No. 2 Tucker, No. 3 Betts, and No. 4 Freeman. The Nationals’ Mikolas allowed a career-worst 11 runs in the middle of the fourth inning. It was a record loss for the Nationals, giving up the most runs in a home opener since moving to Washington. Additionally, this day will be the first game in Dodgers history to unveil blue visitor uniforms. In a special game that will go down in the team’s history, Otani hit his first arch of the season, demonstrating the true nature of a “man who has it.” Shohei was the first to breathe life into the new uniform. On Tuesday, he pitched six scoreless innings on the mound, and today he had three runs and four RBIs with the bat. In just three days, he pitches and hits and leads his team to victory. The man who has exceeded 50 hits for two years in a row and has been the MVP for four years in a row is finally starting the engine for the 2026 season. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Featured comments from legends ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 Ortiz (Papi) “Shohei’s engine just starts slowly. Once it ignites, no one can stop it. Today is the day.” “Don’t underestimate Shohei. This is the real Shohei Otani.” 🔹 CC Sabathia “The scariest thing for a pitcher is a home run that ignites the entire batting lineup. That single shot by Otani wasn’t just a game-tying hit. It was the shot that turned on the Dodgers batting lineup.” “It was the worst of Mikolas’ career, but it couldn’t be helped in front of today’s Dodgers batting lineup.” 🔹 (Alex Rodriguez) “Everyone from No. 1 to No. 4 hit home runs. Moreover, each of them played a different role in a different inning. It was like watching the Yankees of old.” “It was Tucker’s first home run after his transfer. I can understand the sense of relief you feel when you hit your first home run with a new team, as I myself experienced it when I transferred to the Yankees.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ Cast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Host David Ortiz (Big Papi) ── Former Red Sox / CC Sabathia with 541 career home runs ── Former Yankees / 251 career wins and Cy Young Award winner Alex Rodriguez ── Former Yankees / 696 home runs total, 3 MVPs Three legends who have etched their names in MLB history will talk about the game between Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers from their own experiences and perspectives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 Highlights of this video ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Shohei Otani’s first HR of the season ── The “real batter” who had been on base for 38 consecutive games finally hits a hit ✅ Nos. 1 to 4 all hit home runs ── A-Rod says, “It was like watching old Yankees.” ✅ Commentary from a CC pitcher’s perspective ── The moment Otani’s hit changed the atmosphere on Mikolas’ mound ✅ Tucker’s first HR for the Dodgers ── A-Rod talks about the relief of getting his first hit in a new field ✅ First blue visitor uniform in history ── Shohei breathed his soul into a historic day ✅ Papi’s closing ── “Don’t underestimate Shohei. This is the real Shohei Otani.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Game data: Shohei Ohtani: 5 at bats, 2 hits, 1 HR, 4 RBIs (38 consecutive games on base) Winning pitcher: Emme Sheehan (1 win, 0 losses) Losing pitcher: Miles Mikolas (0 wins, 2 losses) ■About the production policy for this video (important) The videos on this channel are original content that focuses on audio commentary, structure, and discussion. The videos, images, and audio materials used are constructed with consideration to YouTube’s guidelines and the scope of citations, and are based on the premise of short-term use, processing, editing, and contextual necessity. In addition, the narration uses a machine voice generated based on your own voice, and there is no intention to imitate or impersonate any specific real person. This video is an entertainment piece based on baseball, but includes production, composition, and consideration. 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