{"id":794,"date":"2025-02-04T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:09:23","slug":"sculpture-of-shohei-ohtani-in-japan-is-going-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/sculpture-of-shohei-ohtani-in-japan-is-going-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture Of Shohei Ohtani In Japan Is Going Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_440041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440041\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-440041 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"SAPPORO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 04: Workers touch up a snow sculpture of Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani during the 75th Sapporo Snow Festival on February 04, 2025 in Sapporo, Japan. The Sapporo Snow Festival, held annually in early February, is one of Japan&#039;s most iconic winter events, attracting over two million visitors to marvel at its stunning snow and ice sculptures across three main venues: Odori Park, Susukino, and Tsudome. The festival, which began in 1950 with six snow sculptures created by local students, has grown into a global spectacle featuring large-scale snow art, illuminated displays, and various winter activities.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Shohei-Ohtani-Sculpture-1024x732-1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Christopher Jue\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers reinforced their recent dominance of Major League Baseball by winning the eighth World Series title in franchise history and their second in the past five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing with a record of 98-64 and winning the National League West, the Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>This offseason, the Dodgers continued to improve their team as they added notable players including starting pitcher Blake Snell, starting pitcher Roki Sasaki and relief pitcher Tanner Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sasaki is the newest and most hyped Japanese player on the Dodgers, you can\u2019t forget their proven Japanese star Shohei Ohtani, who just won the 2024 NL MVP award.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a sculpture of Ohtani and his dog Decoy is going viral on social media, via MLB on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-script=\"true\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Snow-hei <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2744\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2744.png\"><\/p>\n<p>A sculpture of Shohei Ohtani and Decoy is featured again at the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\u2764\" class=\"wp-smiley lazyload\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/2764.png\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vH6MIphHj6\">pic.twitter.com\/vH6MIphHj6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1886840033048502566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ohtani has been one of the best, if not the best, players in baseball over the past four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He recently won his third MVP award in those four seasons, his first in the National League.<\/p>\n<p>As a DH, Ohtani played in 159 games for the Dodgers and batted .310 with 54 home runs, 59 stolen bases, 130 RBIs and a 1.036 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani also went viral on social media during the World Series parade as he had Decoy with him.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if Ohtani can keep up his historic production next season as the Dodgers look for the first back-to-back World Series titles in their history.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/sculpture-of-shohei-ohtani-in-japan-is-going-viral\/\">Sculpture Of Shohei Ohtani In Japan Is Going Viral<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\">The Cold Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Christopher Jue\/Getty Images) \u00a0 The Los Angeles Dodgers reinforced their recent dominance of Major League Baseball by winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gospelmusiconline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}