First, Ohtani, coming off an 0-for-10 streak, made sure to clean some rogue dirt off the plate after a pitch in the dirt made a mess of home plate. Then a couple pitches later he fouled a ball off the inside of home plate umpire Alan Porter's knee. Ohtani immediately checked on him. And then he hit a baseball very far.

Shohei Ohtani reached 30 homers for the fifth straight season and tied Cody Bellinger (2019) for most home runs before the All-Star break in Dodgers history.

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