Shohei Ohtani posts photo of wife, basketball player Mamiko Tanaka

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani has revealed the id of his new partner — a former expert basketball participant — with {a photograph} of the couple on social media.

The Los Angeles Dodgers star was photographed standing next to Mamiko Tanaka in entrance of an airplane alongside his teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The {photograph} was posted on Ohtani’s Instagram account. The Dodgers posted a photo of the newlyweds on the workforce’s X account subsequent to one among Mookie Betts and his partner.

The couple moreover appears in a video of Dodgers players and their households boarding a plane for South Korea on Thursday.

In a shock, Ohtani launched in late February that he had simply these days married “a conventional Japanese girl” whom he had recognized for numerous years. Nevertheless the two-way participant gave no particulars about her id or their bridal ceremony.

Tanaka, 27, carried out for the Fujitsu Pink Wave inside the Girls’s Japan Basketball League from 2019-23.

Ohtani, 29, is anticipated to make his Dodgers debut Wednesday as designated hitter inside the opener in the direction of the San Diego Padres in Seoul. He obtained’t pitch this season after elbow surgical process ultimate fall.

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