Shohei Ohtani, a Los Angeles Dodgers superstar, gives his teammate’s wife a Porsche for allowing him to wear his jersey number.
For Ashley, the wife of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly, Christmas arrived early!
Ashley discovered a Porsche parked outside her house on Saturday after pushing for social media sensation Shohei Ohtani to sign with her husband’s team and wear her husband’s No. 17 jersey.
A short clip of the mother of four expressing her surprise at the unexpected special present was posted on both her Instagram and the Dodgers’ X account.Off-camera, Joe, 35, was heard telling Ashley, who initially appeared perplexed, “It’s yours.” “Shohei wanted to give you a Porsche as a gift.”Ashley looked at the silver four-door car stopped at the curb and said, “Shut… up!”
Ashley’s funny social media campaign to persuade the 29-year-old Ohtani to sign with the Dodgers came to an end with the six-figure gift. Ohtani wore No. 17 for six seasons with the Los Angeles Angels, his former team, but it was the same number Joe had on his Dodgers jersey for the final season. She begged for the two-way star to join the Dodgers in her #Ohtake17 campaign.
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A day before it was revealed that Ohtani had inked a record-breaking 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers, he appeared in a video on December 8.Ashley arranged a variety of No. 17 jerseys on the ground and clarified that one with the words “Mama” on the back might be intended for Shohei’s mother and that “Ohtani” might be written instead of “Kelly” on a blinged-out bag.
During her sales presentation, she mentioned to her audience that her 7-month-old son Kai, also known as “ShoKai,” was asleep and that she would try to keep quiet. She deadpanned, “I changed his name for this s*** too.”
Ashley threw away her husband’s several No. 17 jerseys on their front lawn in a video that was uploaded on December 11 to commemorate Ohtani’s signing, and Kelly then showed up at the door. Ashley had written “KELLY” and “No. 99” on the back of the white t-shirt he was wearing.
Joe knows what it’s like to trade in his jersey for something else.Pitcher Joe Kelly of the Dodgers exchanges his jersey for a Mariachi player’s jacket and wears it to the White House.Kelly wore an unusual outfit in 2021 when she attended the White House ceremony honoring the Dodgers’ 2020 World Series Championship.
Grover Castro, a trumpet player with Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar, gave the Dodgers star a personalized black and white Mariachi jacket with embroidery.Earlier that year, the band played at Dodger Stadium, when Kelly and Castro struck up a conversation on the field during the pregame warm-up.
It turned out that Kelly was interested in Castro’s coat and was willing to trade him his baseball jersey. Later, the band joked on Instagram, “New member alert.” “Jaime Cuéllar’s mariachi Garibaldi in the White House! See the outfit that Joe Kelly wore to the White House meeting with President Joe Biden! “How Great Are Los Dodgers?”