Before the Los Angeles Dodgers embarked on their trip to South Korea for next week's Seoul Series games against the San Diego Padres, Shohei Ohtani posted a photo on Instagram featuring his wife, Mamiko Tanaka.
Shohei Ohtani (his wife Mamiko Tanaka) and Yoshinobu Yamamoto are on their way to Korea for the Seoul Series next week ud83cuddf0ud83cuddf7u26beufe0f pic.twitter.com/Uo8scJed8Y
— Yakyu Cosmopolitan (@yakyucosmo) March 14, 2024
The Dodgers posted a photo of their own with the alt text noting that Tanaka is indeed Ohtani's wife.
In late February, just after the start of spring training, Ohtani announced — to the surprise of most — that he had recently gotten married to a person he later described as "a normal Japanese woman" whom he had known for three or four years.