Shohei Ohtani signs and greets a 100-year-old Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor.

Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani, before today's away game against the Colorado Rockies, after finishing his catch-and-throw warm-up and heading back to the dugout, specifically approached a woman seated in a wheelchair near the dugout, signed a baseball for her, and smiled while shaking her hand and chatting.

This woman is Momoyo Nakamoto Kelly, a Japanese woman who turned 100 in February. She is a survivor of the 1945 atomic bomb explosion in Nagasaki. Later, while working in Fukuoka, she married a U.S. military pilot and moved with her husband to the United States, now residing in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Momoyo Nakamoto Kelly loves baseball and has long followed the performances of Japanese players in MLB. Her grandson Patrick Faust specifically arranged for her to visit the stadium while she was in Denver visiting her daughter, enabling her to meet Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki, Tomoyuki Sugano, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who was born in Japan.

"Getting the signature really felt like a dream," Momoyo Nakamoto Kelly told Japanese media. "I always watch Dodgers and Rockies games. I watch Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki's games every day, no matter how late. I also came from Japan, so I feel very proud of Shohei, and meeting him was an honor for me. He is very kind and truly remarkable."

Meeting Tomoyuki Sugano was also profoundly meaningful for Momoyo Nakamoto Kelly. She revealed she had followed Sugano's performances since his time in Japanese professional baseball. Sugano, currently playing for the Rockies, was deeply moved: "This was a rare opportunity, so I was very happy to meet her. She said she loves baseball and was a fan of my former team."

Roberts' mother was also a Japanese woman married to a U.S. serviceman. Roberts said: "It was wonderful to meet her. She was only 19 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. That she survived and can tell her story is itself a miracle."