Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani announced Thursday that he made a sizable donation to the L.A. wildfire relief efforts.
In a post on Instagram (h/t Fox 11's KJ Hiramoto), Ohtani pledged $500,000 and noted that the Dodgers and Fanatics are teaming up to sell "LA Strong" shirts with proceeds from those sales going to the relief efforts.
Ohtani wrote the post in Japanese, but Hiramoto translated part of it, which read: "Our hearts go out to all the firefighters who continue to fight for us during the fires in LA."
Minyvonne Burke and Liz Kreutz of NBC News reported Thursday that the wildfires are known to have killed at least 27 people, while destroying thousands of structures and forcing about 180,000 people to evacuate their homes in the Los Angeles area.