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Column: Shohei Ohtani retired a meme by joining a team where his heroics aren’t the only story

Shohei Ohtani homered on Friday night.

He reached base four times.

His team lost.

These were like the good old days again, a Herculean effort by Ohtani wasted in loss.

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani greets the Angels’ Michael Stefanic and Mickey Moniak at Dodger Stadium Friday.

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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-EhNao meaning something like furthermore, and Eh the first letter of the Japanese word for Angels, Enzerusu.