Never meet meet your heroes, they say – especially if that hero is Shohei Ohtani.
During ESPN's "KidsCast" of Sunday's Little League Classic between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Mets – an alternate presentation of the game on ESPN2 featuring commentary from an all-youth broadcast team – one of the young players on Australia's Little League World Series team shared a less-than-flattering anecdote about the Los Angeles Dodgers' two-way superstar.
Monica Arcuri of Brisbane shared on the broadcast that she had traveled to Anaheim in 2023 to see the Los Angeles Angels play against the Toronto Blue Jays.