Baseball: Angels' Shohei Ohtani voted onto American League All-Star team

Shohei Ohtani will start Major League Baseball's All-Star Game, MLB announced Thursday, making him the first Japanese player voted to start since Ichiro Suzuki made his final all-star appearance in 2010.Voted the American League's starting designated hitter in a fan ballot, the Los Angeles Angels' two-way player and first-time all-star will be the fourth Japanese to bat in the summer classic after Suzuki, Hideki Matsui and Kosuke Fukudome.He is the first Japanese designated hitter selected to an MLB All-Star team."I'll do my best to put on a show that will excite the fans," Ohtani said thro…READ FULL ARTICLE