Though the Dodgers are everlastingly embedded successful shot history, immoderate parents are making other definite they besides prevail successful the early — by naming their children aft the Boys successful Blue.
“Bout 250 Mexican kids successful 10 years gonna person to explicate why they named Shohei Rodriguez,” 1 viral post connected X quipped aft Shohei Ohtani deed 3 location runs, sounded six shutout innings and struck retired 10 Brewers successful the NLCS-clinching game. The prediction whitethorn not beryllium truthful acold off: Nameberry, the world’s largest babe naming site, saw a 1,000% summation successful searches connected the sanction Shohei conscionable this week.
From Shohei Ohtani to Clayton Kershaw to Freddie Freeman — each person inspired namesakes. And who knows? With the Dodgers connected the verge of etching their bequest pinch a imaginable 3rd title successful six years, this babe roar of sorts whitethorn beryllium successful its infancy. Here, parents stock their kids’ Dodgers-inspired names — and the stories down them.
Freddie Berglund
Named aft Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman
Freddie Freeman’s legendary walk-off expansive slam for the Dodgers successful Game 1 of the 2024 World Series was truthful powerful it prompted this chap to make his debut into the world a mates of weeks early.
“After [Freeman] deed the expansive slam, we about apt had, like, a fewer minutes of celebration, and past my h2o broke,” said Jessica Berglund, Freddie’s mother
Freddie, legally named Frederick, was calved aft the legendary infinitesimal that helped the Dodgers to a 6-3 triumph complete the New York Yankees.
Jessica and Erik Berglund, who unrecorded successful Orange conscionable about wherever Freeman grew up, are star-crossed lovers successful MLB terms, pinch Jessica bleeding Dodgers bluish and Erik cheering connected the Angels. But the meaning down Freddie’s sanction extends beyond section and rivalry.
“We really look up to Freddie [Freeman] arsenic a person, not only arsenic a shot player,” Jessica said. “So it’s not only the emotion of the crippled and the team. It’s really the emotion for Freddie arsenic a person.”
Baby Freddie turns 1 connected Sunday, and astatine his baseball-themed day statement he will beryllium the family’s rookie of the year.
Alita Hyenee Yang
Named aft Shohei Ohtani
At 8 months pregnant, Emma Chiu couldn’t hold till the extremity of their infancy CPR people to fto her husband, Daniel Yang, cognize that Shohei Ohtani was going to motion pinch the Dodgers. As soon arsenic she shoved the telephone connected his face, Yang’s excitement overtook his emotions and he wholly forgot he was successful a class.
The couple, who unrecorded successful San Diego, had been pursuing the profession of Ohtani since he played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters successful the Japanese master shot league. When he signed pinch the Angels successful 2018, Yang, an L.A. native, begrudgingly went to the games pinch his woman conscionable to drawback their favourite subordinate connected the diamond.
On the thrust from the CPR class, they toyed pinch the thought of giving their soon-to-be-born girl a mediate named inspired by 1 of they Boys successful Blue, while besides honoring their taste inheritance of Korean and Taiwanese. What they did was return the past syllables of Ohtani’s first and past sanction to create Hyenee (pronounced Hey-Nee), which they utilized for their daughter’s mediate name.
The sanction seemed to beryllium a cleanable fit. “This is for illustration fate,” nan said.
Jack
Named aft Jackie Robinson
Growing up arsenic a Dodgers instrumentality successful Modesto, an area typically designated for the San Francisco Giants, had its reliable moments for Ryan C.
“I’ve had a mates of sodas chucked astatine maine stepping done parking tons because of my Dodgers gear,” he said.
Yet, erstwhile it came clip to sanction his son, he knew he wanted to salary tribute to the squad he grew up cheering for. At first, he leaned toward Clayton Kershaw, the left-handed two-time World Series champion pitcher, but decided against it aft he publication a Reddit station connected the risks of naming a kid aft a surviving person. (“You don’t cognize wherever they’re going to spell successful their life,” Ryan explained.)
So instead, he decided to sanction his boy Jack aft Jackie Robinson. Any clip Ryan starts to show his NorCal friends the communicative of the Dodgers-inspired name, he hears groans. But the cognition changes arsenic soon arsenic they perceive the sanction pays tribute to Robinson, the Hall of Famer who collapsed baseball’s colour obstruction successful 1947.
Of Robinson, Ryan said, “Fundamentally, he’s ever going to beryllium a ballplayer, the about important ballplayer, the 1 whose number is universally retired. And the only one, successful my opinion, whose number should ever beryllium permanently retired successful that way.”
Clayton Wasser
Named aft Clayton Kershaw
Clayton Kershaw whitethorn beryllium retiring, but his sanction lives connected successful history — and done 9-year-old Clayton Wasser.
The kid comes from “a large Kershaw house,” according to Clayton’s father, Jeremy, and they’ll each beryllium cheering arsenic the Dodgers take connected the Toronto Blue Jays successful the World Series astatine the extremity of Kershaw’s last season.
Jeremy and his wife, Michelle, person agelong been successful awe of Kershaw’s characteristic and success, some connected and disconnected the field.
“He’s truthful awesome arsenic an individual,” Jeremy said. “I mean, his achievements connected the section speak for themselves. But then, you know, we’ve besides followed his, his philanthropic profession … and he’s ever represented the metropolis and the squad pinch people and dignity.”
Clayton Wasser, whose older relative Harrison plays baseball, has taken much of a liking to playing soccer, but would still ask, “Am I pitching tonight?” connected Dodgers crippled days, says his father.
Francesca Mookie Mancuso
Named aft Mookie Betts
Sometimes a location tally could beryllium much than conscionable a statistic. In the lawsuit of Giuseppe Mancuso, a dinger by Mookie Betts virtually named his daughter.
In 2023, Mancuso started a speech pinch Betts while he was connected deck. It was the first clip they ever exchanged words but the man from the stands promised the infielder he’d sanction his girl Mookie if he deed a homer.
“I turned about and told him, ‘No, don’t do that, man,’” Betts said successful his telling of the communicative successful an X post. “Your woman wouldn’t for illustration that.”
During his sheet quality against the then-Oakland A’s pitcher Hogan Harris, Betts turned connected a transportation to deed a 436-foot location run. At the time, the agelong shot was his farthest deed arsenic a Dodgers. After rounding the bases, Betts fist-bumped Mancuso, and that was that.
Weeks later, Betts came crossed a tweet that read: “Hey @Dodgers @mookiebetts @SportsNetLA a stake is simply a bet. Meet Francesca Mookie Mancuso” pinch a image of the newborn and her commencement certificate.
“Shout retired to you, Giuseppe, I can’t hold to meet Francesca,” Betts said successful his video.
Talk about taking a agelong shot.
