The Dodgers have had an intermittent run of pretty bad publicity over the past few years, ranging anywhere between Shohei Ohtani allegedly disrespecting a little leaguer and concrete falling onto fans at Dodger Stadium.
Last year — apart from the Ippei Mizuhara debacle — Ohtani's on-field Dodgers career started off of a somewhat sour note. After he hit his first home run at Dodger Stadium, the fan who caught it was allegedly coerced into giving up the ball for non-authenticated memorabilia, and the team refused to authenticate the ball, should she choose to keep it.
The Dodgers ended up rectifying the situation after the fan's story went viral, and they apparently learned their lesson, because the fan who caught Ohtani's 176th career home run ball (passing Hideki Matsui's record for most career homers by a Japanese-born player) kept the ball, had it authenticated, and sold it.