Nerves no issue for Ohtani in dominant season opener

Dave Roberts says it was 'very telling' watching how emotional Shohei Ohtani got playing in his home country.

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00:00Q I don't think I've ever seen Shohei nervous. One thing I did notice is how emotional he

00:07got during the Japanese national anthem. That was really something that was very telling

00:15how emotional he was. I thought it was a good baseball game. I thought offensively we controlled

00:22the strike zone, took our walks, got some timely hits, played good defense.

00:26I don't usually get nervous about batting, but I did notice that Shohei was nervous.

00:35I didn't think he just needed the foul ball. I thought he was going too far.

00:43But after that, I think he was able to calmly deal with the bat.