Shohei Ohtani fever in Tokyo reached boiling point Saturday night as the Japanese baseball superstar hit a home run in his first game in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform in his home country. Ohtani is in the Japanese capital with the World Series champion Dodgers to open the Major League Baseball season with two games against the Chicago Cubs next week.

Shohei Ohtani met the moment in his return to the Tokyo Dome, because of course he did. In Saturday’s exhibition against the Yomiuri Giants, Ohtani – ever the showman – was quick to slug a home run while wearing a major league uniform in his home country for the first time for the Los Angeles Dodgers.