Baseball: Ohtani hits 200th career homer in Dodgers’ loss to Tigers

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Shohei Ohtani hit the 200th home run of his major league career, but his Los Angeles Dodgers blew a five-run ninth-inning lead to the Detroit Tigers and lost 11-9 in 10 innings Saturday. Ohtani became the first Japanese-born player to reach the 200-homer plateau when he led off the fifth inning with a shot just inside the right-field foul pole at Comerica Park, on a 1-0 changeup from Keider Montero. It pushed Ohtani’s National League-leading home run total to 29. Ohtani also tripled in the first and achieved another milestone during the game, surpassing Hall of Famer Duke Snider for the Brookl…

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