[Special Commentary]Shohei Otani wins the first monthly MVP award as a pitcher! Yamamoto’s third win! Dodgers batting lineup explodes!

Dodgers vs Astros | Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s 3rd win & Shohei Ohtani monthly MVP award! Three legendary alumni talk | May 5, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Game results━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ May 5, Japan time Dodgers 8 – 3 Astros (@Houston) Starting pitcher: Yoshinobu Yamamoto 6 innings, 3 runs allowed, 8 strikeouts → 3rd win of the season: 12 hits, 8 points, home run to Freeland & Tucker Monthly MVP Award━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Selected as National League Pitcher of the Month for March/April (his first) 30 innings/ERA 0.60/34 strikeouts While continuing to participate as a batter, he achieved overwhelming results as a pitcher. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ Starring legends━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ Dusty Baker (former Astros manager) A great general who led the Astros to the World Series victory in 2022. He was a two-time All-Star as a player and served as a manager for five teams. A major league veteran who is also known as the “toothpick magician” and “creator of the high-five.” Based on his experience of playing against Ohtani many times during his time with the Astros, he says, “There’s no need to worry. I know firsthand how many times Ohtani has beaten me in May and June.” ▶ Alex Rodriguez (former Yankees, etc.) Legendary slugger with 696 home runs. From a calm perspective based on data analysis, he explained Otani’s current situation, saying, “Even if he doesn’t get a hit, he gets on base with walks and is involved in scoring.You shouldn’t apply normal standards to a player who continues to participate as a batter while winning monthly MVP as a pitcher.” Regarding Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s pitching on the 6th day of middle school, he suggested, “It’s a waste. He’s the type who can pitch in 5 days of middle school.” ▶ David Ortiz (Former Red Sox) A legend nicknamed “Big Papi” who hit 541 home runs in total. His unique characteristic is his frank comments without bias. Regarding Ohtani, he praised him saying, “It’s strange just to stand at bat every day while winning the monthly MVP as a pitcher.An OPS of over 800 is the mark of a top-notch hitter.” Regarding Yamamoto’s pitching on the 6th day of the junior high school season, he agreed, “A pitcher with such sharp pitches should use him more.” Munetaka Murakami leads the majors with his 14th home run This time’s topic━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Yoshinobu Yamamoto recovered from giving up 2 runs in the first inning and gave up 3 runs in 6 innings for his 3rd win of the season ✅ The Dodgers’ batting lineup exploded from the start, scoring 12 hits and 8 runs.✅ Shohei Ohtani wins the NL Pitcher of the Month Award for the first time✅ Is there no need to worry about Ohtani’s poor batting performance? Coach Baker declares from his experience✅ Is it a waste for Yamamoto to pitch on the 6th day of junior high school? Legends discuss✅ Manager Baker analyzes the current situation and issues of the Astros pitching staff ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚾ Team results (as of May 5th) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dodgers: 22 wins, 13 losses (lead in the National League West Division) Astros: 14 wins, 22 losses (A League West Division) ■ About the production policy of 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 structured with consideration to YouTube’s guidelines and the scope of quotation, 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. Please understand that some of the content may include interpretations and presentational expressions. ■ Copyright/Right Notation The copyrights of videos, images, and sound sources belong to the respective rights holders. If a problem is confirmed, we will promptly take measures such as making it private or deleting it. *Unauthorized reproduction, copying, or reuse of this channel’s content (including explanatory text, structure, and narration) is prohibited. ■ Materials/Credit 🎧 Additional Track Elektronomia – Energy Watch: https://youtu.be/eW3gMGqcZQc Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/Energy Video @Dodgers Official X https://www.youtube.com/@MLB