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Dodgers Bat Boy Casually Saved Shohei Ohtani’s Life With Wild Bare-Handed Catch

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Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers were lucky to have this guy in their dugout Wednesday night.
Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers were lucky to have this guy in their dugout Wednesday night.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the lowly Chicago White Sox, 4-0, on Wednesday night and the MVP of the game wasn't any of the team's star players, but rather a bat boy who made an incredible play on a hard-hit foul ball that could have really done some serious damage to Shohei Ohtani.

Ohtani was getting ready to go on deck when a liner went screaming into the dugout. It looked like the ball could have hit him in the head but thankfully the bat boy casually made a barehanded catch and then just casually handed it to a fan in the crowd.

This could have gone really badly for Ohtani:

Incredible.

Fans rightfully loved it:

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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