The thriller behind Shohei Ohtani‘s canine’s id has been solved.
The Los Angeles Dodgers rolled out their $700 million superstar acquisition Thursday afternoon and in a 20-minute press convention, maybe no query was fairly so burning because the identify of the beagle who crawled on Ohtani’s lap throughout a televised announcement of his American League MVP award final month.
And the identify is?
Decoy.
It is an acceptable tag for a hound and his human, whose id and vacation spot remained shrouded in secrecy for the final month. And Ohtani, all the time nice however famously non-public, was way more forthcoming about his beagle (or beagle-like specimen) than he was about, say, the character of his elbow reconstruction surgical procedure in September.
Decoy was the identify the canine got here with, Ohtani stated, however he determined to offer him a similar-sounding Japanese deal with, decopine.
According to on-line language translation, decopine means“the act of flicking somebody’s brow with a finger.” Naturally, intrepid Reddit customers surfaced a video of Ohtani doing a bit little bit of that decopine to Patrick Sandoval on the Angels bench between innings.
OK, then! Just one other clarification for the Ohtani-crazed media to pursue.
And maybe the Dodgers now have their new home run celebration.
This article initially appeared on USA TODAY: Shohei Ohtani reveals his dog’s name during Dodgers introduction
