Shohei Ohtani homered on Friday night.
He reached base four times.
These were like the good old days again, a Herculean effort by Ohtani wasted in loss.
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The phenomenon was so common in the six years Ohtani played for the Angels that the Japanese media coined a term for it: Nao-Eh — Nao meaning something like furthermore, and Eh the first letter of the Japanese word for Angels, Enzerusu.