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Shohei Ohtani defers question about his wife, Japanese basketball player Mamiko Tanaka

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Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani surprised most everyone when he announced Feb. 29 on Instagram that he had gotten married.

He provided no other details, not even his wife’s name, on social media and when he spoke to reporters later that day at spring training in Phoenix.

“She’s a normal Japanese woman,” he said at the time.

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