Ohtani's Journey: The L.A. Times chronicles Shohei Ohtani’s rise from a rural town in Japan to his r
OHTANI’S JOURNEY
The L.A. Times chronicles Shohei Ohtani’s rise from a rural town in Japan to his record-breaking debut Dodgers season
FRONT COVER: However good you thought Shohei Ohtani was before he became a Dodger, he probably exceeded your expectations. While he never got a chance to pitch, he became the centerpiece of the Dodgers lineup, even batting in the leadoff position. This is but one of his 54 home runs hit this regular season. He hit it against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 22.
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Champagne, hugs and T-shirts: Ohtani makes 50-50 milestone
JACK HARRIS • SEPT. 20, 2024
MIAMI —On the eve of Shohei Ohtani’s greatest night in the majors, Clayton McCullough made a prediction.
McCullough had watched much of Ohtani’s chase for 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases from the first base coach’s box, marveling at the Dodger star’s pursuit of a milestone no player had come close to reaching.
“He’s gonna get it,” McCullough predicted, confident Ohtani had enough time over the season’s final two weeks. Then, the coach offered a bolder, more tantalizing take.
“Probably,” he said, “in the same game, again.”
After all, the Dodgers had become accustomed to such dramatics. Ohtani already had delivered amid a hostile reception in Toronto, in his first game against his old Angels team, and even on the night of his highly anticipated bobblehead giveaway.
He’d gone deep in the All-Star Game and joined the 40-40 club on a walk-off grand slam.
Even his first official game in a Dodgers jersey, in spring training, was christened by an opposite-field home run.
“[Times] that we hope he can kinda do something special and there’s anticipation, he comes through,” manager Dave Roberts said. “It’s really uncanny.”
But what unfolded at LoanDepot Park on Thursday, in front of a small crowd on a late afternoon, transcended what many thought possible — even for someone like him. Ohtani achieved MLB’s first 50-50 season, founding a once-unfathomable club that now has a membership of one.
And he got there with a performance likely to be remembered as one of the best in baseball history: a six-for-six, three-homer, two-steal, 10-RBI tour de force.
“Never mind in the same game as accomplishing 50-50,” general manager Brandon Gomes, watching the contest from back home in Los Angeles, said via text. “Feels like one of those special nights that will never happen again.”
For weeks, each of Ohtani’s trips to the plate had been accompanied by a question across the press boxes of America’s ballparks. Is Ohtani going to homer? Is he going to steal?
In his first at-bat Thursday, he narrowly
missed a leadoff homer, sending a screaming line drive thudding off the wall in right-center. Standing on second with no outs, a steal didn’t look all that plausible either.
At least to everyone not named Ohtani.
“The feeling is that if I can go,” Ohtani said in Japanese, “I go aggressively.”
And go aggressively, Ohtani did. After a walk by Freddie Freeman, he and Ohtani took off on a double steal. Freeman reached second without a throw. Ohtani looked beaten by a bullet from catcher Nick Fortes. The only problem: The Marlins had rookie Connor Norby at third base, a position he had played in just 28 professional games. Norby stretched for the tag. Ohtani slid right under it, mirroring the umpire’s safe call with extended arms.
“In that sense,” said Ohtani, who then scored from third on a sacrifice fly, “I think it was a good steal.”
His 50th steal was down. Two home runs were left to go.
Had it not been for a perfectly executed relay play on a third-inning double that Ohtani unsuccessfully tried to stretch into a triple, he might have been trying to hit for the cycle when he came up in the sixth.
OPPOSITE: The emotion, while strong, doesn’t capture the full gravity of the moment. Shohei Ohtani hits his 50th home run of the season in the seventh inning against the Miami Marlins.
MARTA LAVANDIER / ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABOVE: The first part of the 50-50 happened in the first inning when Shohei Ohtani stole his 50th base of the season. It only took a few innings for him to finish his historic feat.
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OPPOSITE: Does Shohei Ohtani really have the ability to make a bat levitate? Of course not. But he sure knows when he hit his 50th home run.
MARTA LAVANDIER / ASSOCIATED PRESS
After his leadoff double and steal, Ohtani hooked an RBI single in the second inning, and then stole second without a throw, before he drove in two more on the third-inning drive.
“He was sniffing a cycle, I think,” Roberts said, grinning. “It’s fine. I got no problem with the aggressiveness.”
It proved to be Ohtani’s only mistake. For the rest of the game, the National League home run leader moved into the power
portion of his two-act affair.
When Ohtani came up in the sixth, it felt like a tipping point. He seemed likely to have only two more at-bats in the game. If he was going to get to 50-50, he needed to hit a home run now.
Right-hander George Soriano helped by tossing a hanging breaking pitch. Ohtani took a mighty hack at the inside slider. He stood and stared as it soared to the upper deck in right.
Home run No. 49 traveled 438 feet and tied Shawn Green’s franchise record set in 2001.
An inning later, Green was bumped to second on the list.
“Sorry, Shawn,” Roberts, a former Dodgers teammate of Green’s who witnessed his similarly historic four-home run game in Milwaukee in 2002, joked afterward. “But just in totality I don’t know that I’ve seen anything like this.”
On Wednesday night, Mike Baumann’s plan of attack against Ohtani worked.
With two on and two outs in the Dodgers’ eventual 8-4 win, Baumann threw Ohtani two fastballs up for strikes, then a curveball in the dirt for a swing and miss. It was the first time in four career meetings that the 29-year-old journeyman retired the two-time most valuable player.
On Thursday night, in a rematch in the seventh inning, Baumann tried a similar sequence. The fact he was allowed to pitch to Ohtani was a credit to his manager.
With the Dodgers already up 11-3 and first base open, an intentional walk to Ohtani would have been warranted, even amid the 50-50 stakes.
From the Marlins dugout, however,
manager Skip Schumaker kept his arms crossed and rendered his decision to his bench with an expletive. Schumaker explained his rationale after the game.
“That’s a bad move, baseball-wise, karma-wise, baseball gods-wise,” Schumaker said of intentionally walking Ohtani. “You go after him and see if you can get him out.”
From the opposite bench, Dodgers personnel appreciated the decision.
“To take that potential moment away from the fans and Shohei himself, Skip understood that it was bigger than that, and I’ve got nothing but respect for that,” Roberts said.
As he begins every at-bat, Ohtani laid his bat on the ground, on the exact same angle as the third-base line, to ensure his back foot was in perfect position.
Curveball in. Foul tip.
As he fidgeted with his bat between pitches, surrounded by a sea of standing spectators clapping, cheering and recording the moment, Ohtani’s face held hardly any expression.
Fastball up. Fouled back.
Down 0-and-2, Ohtani called time out and ran his fingers through his hair. Once he dug back in, Baumann prepared to deliver a pitch with what he hoped was a put-away spin. Like the previous night, Baumann threw his two-strike curveball in the dirt. But this time, Ohtani laid off.
Wild pitch. Run scores.
Undeterred, Baumann rocked, fired and unleashed another two-strike curve. This one, however, had a little late break. A hanging meatball. Hit squarely off the barrel.
Home run No. 50 was an opposite-field
rocket, traveling an estimated 391 feet after exploding off Ohtani’s bat at 109.7 mph.
“I’m really just a fan watching just like y’all are,” said Betts, who was standing in the ondeck circle.
After Ohtani rounded the bases, he received hugs from teammates, Teoscar Hernández’s signature sunflower seed shower, and a raucous roar from the crowd.
“It was great,” Hernández said of the atmosphere. “I even told the guys that for the amount of fans, it was actually really lively.”
Coaxed by teammates to take a curtain call, Ohtani emerged just as the pitch clock was about to expire in the next at-bat.
But as Ohtani climbed the stairs and waved with his right hand — the one he hopes will be firing pitches of his own again next season — Baumann stepped off the rubber and let him have the moment.
Home plate umpire Dan Iassogna signaled to negate any pitch-clock violation.
“It was a good day for baseball,” Schumaker later said. “Bad day for the Marlins.”
After Ohtani hit his 50th, shortstop Miguel Rojas was among the first Dodgers to greet him. Sitting out a second straight game while he nursed left leg soreness, Rojas watched from the dugout, reflecting on Ohtani’s laborious season as he saw the ball sail over the fence.
He considered the pressure Ohtani arrived with, after signing a $700-million contract this offseason. He recalled the early-season theft
and gambling saga, when Ohtani’s ex-interpreter and former close friend Ippei Mizuhara was found to have stolen nearly $17 million from the player’s bank account to cover debts he owed to an allegedly illegal bookmaker.
Rojas also thought about all the little moments, when he saw Ohtani grinding in the cage or working on the bases or going through his throwing program — a daily routine of strict regimentation.
“We all know it’s been an eventful first season in a Dodgers uniform,” Rojas said. “So
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giving him a career-high six hits and setting a Dodgers record with 10 RBIs in a game.
“The rehabilitation process isn’t entirely fun, and if there are places you advance, there are of course places where you also regress,” Ohtani said when asked about the serendipitous coincidence. “I do what I can so that doesn’t affect me in the game, and I emotionally flip the switch. When I play as a hitter, I am careful to focus fully on that.”
When Ohtani returned to the clubhouse,
“That has to be the greatest baseball game of all time.”
INFIELDER GAVIN LUX
for us teammates, it’s just a privilege to watch him every single day.”
There was another layer of meaning given the date.
On Sept. 19 of last year, Ohtani underwent Tommy John surgery to repair a tendon in his elbow, a procedure that prevented him from pitching this season and threatened to compromise his abilities at the plate.
On Sept. 19 this year, Ohtani completed his historic performance with a third home run off position player Vidal Bruján in the ninth inning — marking his first three-homer game,
after a couple of on-field interviews, he found a few surprises waiting.
Commemorative “50/50” T-shirts were being handed out to teammates, displaying Ohtani sliding on one side of the slash-mark and taking a swing on the other. Bubbling glasses of Veuve Clicquot were being passed around as well, a champagne toast to celebrate the Dodgers clinching their 12th straight playoff berth, and first for Ohtani.
Roberts praised the room for the annual October advancement. Ohtani also rose to deliver a brief speech in English.
“He was just really grateful to his teammates for their support, that’s about it,” Roberts said with a laugh. “A man of few words.”
While clubbies packed and shuttled luggage bound for the team’s plane back to Los Angeles, players talked with reporters and amongst themselves about the feats they’d just witnessed.
“That has to be the greatest baseball game of all time,” infielder Gavin Lux said. “It’s ridiculous. I’ve never seen anybody do that even in Little Leagues, so it’s crazy that he’s doing that at the highest level.”
As he returned to his locker to change, Ohtani interjected in Hernández’s scrum with media members, joking that the outfielder told him to complete a cycle with a triple in the ninth inning.
“Instead he hit it upper deck,” Hernández responded about home run No. 51. “That’s why we’re not friends anymore.”
At Roberts’ postgame chat with reporters, he was thrown a lighthearted hypothetical about Ohtani’s chances of reaching 60-60.
“I mean as long as there’s games being played,” Roberts said laughing. “He drove in like 15 runs tonight, so, there’s nothing saying he can’t hit nine or 10 more homers.”
For one remarkable night, and one record-shattering regular season, Ohtani and the Dodgers already had done plenty.
“It’s been a grind of a season, a lot of challenges,” Roberts said. “With that, when things happen like this tonight, you gotta enjoy it.”
OPPOSITE: Shohei Ohtani’s teammates were quick with the medium-fives when he returned to the dugout after hitting his 50th home run. MARTA LAVANDIER / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nothing 50-50 about it, Ohtani should be the unanimous NL MVP
BILL PLASCHKE • SEPT. 20, 2024
Everything about him is unanimous. He’s the best player in baseball history. He just had the best offensive day in baseball history. He’s having the best offensive season in Dodgers history.
And when it comes to the National League’s highest honor, there no longer should be a debate.
Shohei Ohtani should be the unanimous most valuable player. Unquestionably. Undeniably. And any voter who thinks otherwise should have their credentials examined.
Ohtani created his crowning moment Thursday afternoon in Miami when he became the first player in major league history to reach 50 homers and 50 steals in a season. But it wasn’t just that he did it, but how he did it, transforming crunch time into exclamation points.
He reached 50-50 with three home runs and two stolen bases and 10 RBIs in a pennant-race game with the entire baseball world focused on his every swing! And, oh yeah, he went six for six on those swings! And, incidentally, it was a win that clinched the Dodgers’ 12th consecutive playoff berth! If that’s not an MVP-crowning moment, what is?
There has been talk that Ohtani shouldn’t win it because a designated hitter never has won it. Critics have charged that a player who is required only to use half of the skills required of an everyday player simply cannot
be considered most valuable.
David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox had 47 homers and 148 RBIs in 2005 and didn’t win it. The next season he hit 54 homers and 137 RBIs and still didn’t win it.
His one flaw? He was a DH.
That first season, New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez won it with 48 homers and 130 RBIs. The next season Minnesota first baseman Justin Morneau won it with 34 homers and 130 RBIs. Neither had the impact of Ortiz.
Historically voters have long scoffed at the dudes who only hit, and that’s been the case this year particularly in New York, where the locals have been pushing for Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor.
Yes, he’s been great offensively, joining the 30-30 club, only the third shortstop to do it for five seasons. And yes, defensively, he rates as the best shortstop in the league. All this, and he’s been carrying the Mets into the running for a wild-card playoff berth.
A great season but … seriously?
Ohtani just did something nobody in baseball history has matched, or ever will match, combining the power of a strongman with the skill of a sprinter, creating a complete hitter of the sort that the game never has employed.
He’s a DH not as in, designated hitter. He’s a DH as in, designated hell-raiser.
“That’s insane,” Max Muncy told
reporters of Ohtani’s day after the Dodgers’ 20-4 victory over the Marlins at Miami’s loanDepot Park.
Mookie Betts could only laugh.
“I mean … it’s just funny. It’s amazing,” he said. “Really you can’t put it into words so you just kind of sit back and enjoy watching.”
Miguel Rojas had the same feeling with the opposite reaction.
“I almost cried, to be honest with you, because it was a lot of emotions, because of everything that happens behind the scenes that we got to witness every single day,” he said. “So it’s a pretty cool moment.”
A summer during which you’re so extraordinary your teammates don’t know whether to laugh or cry? Now that’s an MVP season.
Full disclosure: I didn’t see the 50th home run when it happened. My television was off. Ohtani stole his 50th base in the first inning, hit his 49th homer in the sixth inning, the Dodgers led 9-3, and I figured he would save his historic home-run swing for this weekend at Dodger Stadium. At the very least, the Marlins were going to quit pitching to him, right?
I stopped watching. When my phone blew up shortly thereafter, I was reminded of the first rule for those journalists fortunate enough to chronicle the daily miracle that is Shohei Ohtani.
You never can stop watching.
He hit his 50th in the seventh inning with
OPPOSITE: A catchy sign often finds itself in the middle of a big moment, and this one does just that after Shohei Ohtani hit his 50th home run. The sign mixed the math of 50-50 and the history of being the first person to ever reach those numbers. WILFREDO LEE / ASSOCIATED PRESS
RIGHT: No, this isn’t another image of Shohei Ohtani hitting his 50th home run. This swing came in the ninth inning of the game against the Miami Marlins and was the start to his 51st home run of the season. MARTA LAVANDIER / ASSOCIATED PRESS
an opposite-field shot that left anyone with an appreciation for the art of hitting in awe.
In that situation, for him knowing that he’s right there on the edge of history and to somehow stay inside a pitch and hit it on a line to left-center and not try to get too big — you know he’s thinking about hitting a home run and he hits it 111 mph on a line the other way on a slider down and away,”
Muncy said. “It’s just incredible.”
Ohtani has been incredible this entire season, from the moment he homered in his first spring game to entering the 40-40 club with a game-winning grand slam to homering on his bobblehead night after his dog, Decoy, delivered a perfect first pitch.
He’s succeeded in every big moment amid the greatest of expectations blanketed with
the most onerous of pressure. He’s had to deal with so much attention, the Dodgers have had to rearrange the press box to fit all the media. He’s had to deal with the theft of $16 million by longtime interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. He’s had to deal with every move causing a ruckus, even his bobblehead night causing incredible pregame traffic jams that hampered his teammates.
He’s dealt with so much, yet he keeps dealing, and dealing, and dealing.
“I can’t put a finger on it, and it’s uncanny,” manager Dave Roberts said. “I mean, there’s a handful of things that we hope he can kinda do something special, and there’s anticipation, and he comes through. It’s really uncanny.”
In a season filled with injury and
misfortune, Ohtani’s swing and spirit have carried this team even without him ever wearing a glove.
The Dodgers would not win the division without him. The Dodgers might not have made the playoffs without him. He’s missed three games, and shown up big for 150 others, and exceeded even the most generous of predictions.
Dodgers fans looking for a chant to accompany him when he is welcomed home Friday now have one. It is a chant this town reserves for only the best and most beloved. Kobe Bryant once heard it. Shohei Ohtani will hear it now.
Nothing 50-50 about it. A full-throated 100%.
“M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-P!”
LEFT: While it may appear that Shohei Ohtani didn’t even need to have a foot on the ground after hitting his 50th home run, in fact, it is confirmed that he did not glide in the air during his trip around the bases. He seems superhuman, but there are limits to that.
MARTA LAVANDIER / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shawn Green on Ohtani breaking record: ‘He’s the greatest ever’
MIKE DIGIOVANNA • SEPT. 19, 2024
Shawn Green was driving back to Orange County from Stanford, where he had dropped his youngest daughter off for her freshman year of college, when the text messages began pouring in.
“My phone started blowing up,” the former Dodgers slugger said, “so it wasn’t hard to figure out what was going on.”
Green set a franchise record with 49 home runs in 2001, but as he approached the Southern California basin Thursday afternoon, Shohei
Ohtani tied that mark with a two-run homer to right-center in the sixth inning of a 20-4, postseason-clinching victory over the Miami Marlins in loanDepot Park.
By the time Green pulled into the garage of his Newport Beach home, Ohtani had slugged home run No. 50, a two-run shot to left field in the seventh inning, and No. 51, a three-run bomb that traveled 440 feet to the upper deck in right-center in the ninth inning.
That capped a six-hit, three-homer, two-double, 10-RBI, 17-total-base game in which Ohtani notched his 50th and 51st stolen bases of the season, making him the first player in major league history to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases in a season. Green, 51, did not see Ohtani break his record in real time, but he turned on the television in time to see highlights on the postgame show.
“If you’re gonna lose a record, you want it
to be to a great player, and he’s the greatest player who has ever lived,” Green said of Ohtani, the two-way star who has been relegated to hitting while he recovers from elbow surgery. “And the fact that he did it in such historic fashion may be even better.
“To get to 50-50, that’s not a Dodgers thing, that’s an unprecedented Major League Baseball milestone. There aren’t enough adjectives to describe how amazing he’s been throughout his career, but especially this first season with the Dodgers, with all the pressure coming over. It’s really mind-boggling what he’s been able to do.”
Green is one of a handful of big leaguers who experienced the kind of dominance Ohtani displayed during his demolition of the Marlins.
On May 23, 2002, the left-handed-hitting Green smashed four home runs, a double and a single, amassing a major league-record 19 total bases and driving in seven runs to lead the Dodgers to a 16-3 shellacking of the Milwaukee Brewers in Miller Park.
Had Ohtani’s first-inning double, which hit the right-field wall on the fly, been a few feet higher, he would have matched Green’s four homers and 19 total bases.
“What an amazing game,” Green said. “But with him, you’re not surprised by anything.”
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was the team’s center fielder in 2002, so when he was asked if he had seen a game like Ohtani’s, he
harked back to Green’s monster day.
“I saw Shawn Green go six for six with four homers,” Roberts said, “but I think just seeing the magnitude of what [Ohtani] was on the cusp of doing, and ironically, he broke Shawn Green’s Dodgers record … sorry, Shawn, but in totality, I don’t know that I’ve seen anything like this.”
Was Ohtani’s day in Miami better than Green’s day in Milwaukee?
“Oh, you gotta ask someone else that question,” Green said. “That’s for all the talk-show people who debate those types of things. That’s not for me.”
Green was not surprised to see his home run record fall to Ohtani, who slugged 46 in 2021 and 44 in 2023 for the Angels, winning American League most valuable player in each season.
“The thing that blows me away the most is the stolen bases,” Green said. “I had a year when I stole 35 bases [for Toronto in 1998], and it was really hard. I’m the same height [6 feet 4] as Ohtani, and elite base stealers are usually more compact, guys like Rickey Henderson, Vince Coleman and Maury Wills, who can get quick first steps.
“But to have his size … it takes a huge toll on your body, not just for the 50-odd times he attempts to steal, but the times you’re running and the ball is fouled off. And if you’re gonna steal bases, you have to have a
OPPOSITE: It’s unclear if Shohei Ohtani fully grasped the moment when he hit his 50th home run to go along with 50 stolen bases. It was a first in Major League Baseball.
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LAVANDIER / ASSOCIATED PRESS
How Shohei Ohtani drove himself to become World Series champion
DYLAN
HERNÁNDEZ • OCT. 31, 2024
NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani was hitting with one arm.
Limited by the left shoulder he partially dislocated just four days earlier, Ohtani was at this point more or less a decoy, which, coincidentally or not, is the name of his world-famous dog.
Didn’t matter.
He wanted to hit. So when Tommy Edman drew a walk in what turned out to be a decisive eighth inning in Game 5 of the World Series, Ohtani entered the ondeck circle.
One problem: He’d skipped ahead in line. Recognizing his mistake when Gavin Lux climbed up the dugout steps, Ohtani temporarily retreated to the bench.
Lux tied the score with a sacrifice fly and Mookie Betts won it with another while Ohtani settled for reaching base on a catcher’s interference call, but the sequence in the ondeck circle was nonetheless revealing.
Ohtani wanted to be in the batter’s box with the game on the line. Even in a compromised state, he wasn’t afraid of the moment.
The best player in baseball for the last four years, Ohtani became a World Series champion on Wednesday night. His coronation was staged at Yankee Stadium, where the Dodgers claimed a 7-6 victory over the New
York Yankees to win the best-of-seven series, four games to one.
As his teammates showered him with beer and sparkling wine in the middle of the visiting clubhouse, Ohtani raised the commissioner’s trophy.
“Really, I’m just happy,” Ohtani said in Japanese.
The championship marked an appropriate end for the greatest individual season in Dodgers history, one in which Ohtani became the first player in history to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases in the same season. Ohtani, who signed a 10-year, $700-million contract with the Dodgers after playing six seasons for the Angels, is expected to win his third MVP award in four years.
“I think there’s a legitimate argument that he’s the greatest player to ever play the game,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said.
Ohtani is more focused than any other player. He is more gifted than any other player. He could be braver than any other player.
Courage is required to be as brazenly ambitious as Ohtani, who said his intention was to become the No. 1 player in the world when he departed Japan for the major league seven years ago.
“He wants to be the most amazing baseball player in the history of the world,” Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly said.
To dream as Ohtani does is to be condemned to failure. Only one player can be the best. Not every player has the resolve to take on such odds, not even the most talented of players. Especially the most talented of players, who have the most fragile of egos.
As much success as he’s enjoyed over the last four years, Ohtani has endured his share of failure as well.
In his first three seasons with the Angels, he wasn’t close to being the player he wanted to be. He underwent two Tommy John surgeries. He ended up leaving the Angels without appearing in a playoff game for them.
That didn’t stop him from dreaming of more.
The scale of his ambition was most evident in a goal chart he created as a senior at Hanamaki Higashi High.
He planned on throwing a pitch 175 kilometers per hour, or about 109 mph. He wanted to throw multiple no-hitters. By this stage of his career, he dreamed of winning multiple World Baseball Classic titles and multiple Cy Young Awards.
The only one of those items he’s checked off is the WBC title, which he’s won once. But that’s not the point. The point was that he wasn’t afraid to set and pursue outrageous targets.
Considering that background, it was entirely expected that he would try to play with
OPPOSITE: Shohei Ohtani slides into third base in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the World Series against the Yankees at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles on Oct. 25, 2024.
