Baseball: Shohei Ohtani belts leadoff homer as Dodgers edge Twins

Shohei Ohtani led off with his 17th home run of the season as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the Minnesota Twins 2-1 on Monday.Ohtani sent the second pitch of the game over the right-field fence at Target Field and went on to finish 1-for-4 with the one RBI. The Dodgers doubled their lead on Freddie Freeman's solo homer in the sixth inning.Ohtani's 414-foot (126-meter) blast was his sixth leadoff homer of the season and the 30th of his Major League Baseball career.The Japanese two-way star remained the overall vote leader in the latest MLB All-Star Game balloting released Monday.Ohtani has r…READ FULL ARTICLE