Shohei Ohtani joins the 40-40 club in dramatic fashion

Friday night Shohei Ohtani joined one of baseball’s — if not all of sports — most exclusive clubs.

But as is often the case with one of the sport’s brightest stars, he did so in dramatic fashion.

Ohtani came to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning Friday night with the bases loaded in a tie game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the visiting Tampa Bay Rays. On the first pitch of the at-bat Ohtani saw an 84-mph slider down and away from Colin Poche, and Ohtani went down to get it, putting himself in the record books and the Dodgers in the win column:

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