Shohei Ohtani drills mammoth go-ahead home run vs. D-Backs

Kyle Madson

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Shohei Ohtani on Tuesday night vs. the Diamondbacks stepped to the plate with Gavin Lux on first aand the Dodgers behind 3-2. 

He got a hanging slider up and in on a 1-0 pitch from Arizona reliever Justin Martinez and tattooed a no-doubt home run to right center field. Exit velocity was clocked at 112 MPH with an estimated distance of 433 feet. 

The two-run blast was Ohtani's 27th of the season -- the most in the National League -- and it gave the Dodgers a 4-3 lead in the seventh.

Kyle Madson

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Kyle Madson neither likes writing about himself nor writing in the third person. Nevertheless, he persists. While Kyle has spent most of his writing career covering the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and San Francisco 49ers, he’s never lost the love of baseball that has resided in the deepest recesses of his soul since he began playing T-ball at 4 years old (no matter how hard John Fisher has tried). Aside from writing, Kyle also hosts a radio show, the Insiders, with James Ham on ESPN 1320 in Sacramento. When he’s not being a sports dork, Kyle loves being a normal dork and traveling, visiting museums, diving further into K-Pop fandom (#SKZ) and hanging out with his wife and cats. Don’t follow him on Twitter or Instagram at @KyleAMadson.