Baseball: Ohtani homers in loss to Marlins, now at 48-48

Shohei Ohtani moved closer to Major League Baseball’s first 50-homer, 50-steal season by hitting his 48th home run in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 11-9 loss to the Miami Marlins on Tuesday. Ohtani crushed a 402-foot, two-run blast to the second deck in right field off a low-inside 1-1 sweeper from Darren McCaughan in the third inning at loanDepot park, the Japanese star’s 219th career MLB homer breaking a tie with South Korea’s Choo Shin Soo for the most by an Asian-born player. “It was a tough pitch to hit, but it’s good that I committed to it completely,” Ohtani said. “Basically, I’ve been able …

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