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Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Friday, August 30th,

2024. Start of a long holiday weekend.

And we begin with Baseball Marvel Shohay Otani sharing the spotlight with an unexpected

teammate, his dog.

On Wednesday night, fans swarmed Dodger Stadium to snag a special Otani

bobblehead that features the superstar and his super pooch decoy. Fans lined up

starting at 9 a.m. 10 hours before game time to be one of the first

40,000 to get the giveaway before it was gone. Stadium traffic backed up for miles.

Even Dodger's manager, Dave Roberts, was caught in it,

telling reporters he picked up a game day worker who thought

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