LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Roberts recently joked that Shohei Ohtani should gift Roberts a Porsche when Ohtani breaks his Dodgers' record for most home runs by a Japanese-born player. Ohtani obliged, just maybe not in the way Roberts imagined. Before Friday's game against the Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers' slugger gifted Roberts a purple toy model Porsche in his office. Roberts said the car is sitting on his desk. Ohtani hit his seventh home run, and tied Roberts' mark, with a home run at Toronto on
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tanner Banks came on after a three-hour rain delay to strike out pinch-hitter Iván Herrera in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 on Saturday night to snap a four-game losing streak. “I’ve never been part of anything like that before, but I’m happy to have been a part of it.” White Sox manager Pedro Grifol said. “I’m happy to have been on the right end of that one because that would have been a tough one to lose. There was so
Edwards' coming out party continued in emphatic fashion in a Game 1 win over the reigning champs.