Shohei Ohtani did not disappoint in the first playoff ... Ohtani would celebrate what was his first MLB playoff hit with a bat flip for the ages. Take a look at the video of Ohtani homering ...

You can't blame Shohei Ohtani for being excited ... The usually stoic Ohtani hit a three-run dinger and shouted out as he flipped his bat. His Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 7-5 in Game 1 ...

After smashing this shot, he proceeded to flip his bat in celebration as the Dodgers ... to score in the bottom of the 9th inning. Shohei Ohtani once again stole the spotlight on Friday night.

The Dodgers ultimately prevailed thanks to a six-run ninth inning and some heroics from two-way superstar Shohei ... bat and sent his arms skyward in celebration of his clutch dinger. Not only was ...

The Dodgers star looked sharp in facing hitters for the first time since undergoing a second major elbow operation.

Shohei Ohtani is even good at bat flipping ... but his hitting and speed have both been there. Aud now, so has his bat flip. MORE: Yankees' Jasson Dominguez has historic night This was clearly ...

Griffin Canning was hardly in grave danger when Shohei Ohtani stepped to the plate in the fifth inning Wednesday at Dodger ...

Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani performs a rare gesture toward umpires that no other player does before every at-bat.

During the Dodgers’ 7-3 loss to the Yankees, Buster Olney shared that Ohtani is the only MLB player to greet the umpires ...

It takes moments like these to stoke this fire out of Shohei Ohtani, to cause him to roar and flip his bat and find his emotional release. It is rare for any athlete, even a generational one such ...

Reigning National League MVP Shohei Ohtani became a father for the first time after his wife Mamiko Tanaka gave birth to a daughter on April 19.