- Shohei Ohtani can do it all on a baseball field, yet the Japanese two-way sensation had never hit a grand slam as a professional.
, who was making his big-league debut, and sent it over the wall in left for the Angels' third grand slam this season.
Ohtani - who will receive his AL MVP Award before Tuesday's game - is one homer shy of becoming the third Japanese-born player to reach 100 in the majors. He has 147 in his professional career, including 48 with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in five seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league.
"He got the first three guys on and then had the wrong three guys coming up. Hopefully he can look back and have the appreciation he was pitching to Trout and Ohtani," Cash said.
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