Ohtani gives Porsche to Kelly’s wife for Dodgers’ uniform number No. 17
After the wife of reliever Joe Kelly offered her husband’s uniform number to help lure Shohei Ohtani to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the two-way star responded by giving her a Porsche.
The Dodgers shared a video showing
Kelly’s wife, Ashley, who had launched what she dubbed her #Ohtake17 campaign in hopes that the free agent from Japan would sign with the team.
She showed him all the No. 17 garb her family had that could be repurposed for Ohtani and his family and offered to rename the couple’s baby, Kai, to ShoKai.
In the video posted this weekend, she opens the front door to reveal a silver sports car parked in front of the house.
“It’s yours, from Shohei,” a man off camera says in the video to the stunned