L.A. Dodgers Superstar Shohei Ohtani Gifts Porsche to Wife of Teammate Who Let Him Take Jersey Number

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Ashley Kelly, the wife of Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly, opened her front door and found the six-figure sports car on her curb

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Shohei Ohtani; Ashley Parks and Joe Kelly

Christmas came early for Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly’s wife Ashley!

After campaigning on social media for superstar Shohei Ohtani to sign with her husband’s team — and to take her husband’s No. 17 jersey — Ashley opened her front door on Saturday to find a Porsche parked outside her home.

A video clip shared on her Instagram and on the Dodgers’ X account shows the mother of four’s shock at the unexpected special delivery.

“It’s yours,” Joe, 35, could be heard saying off-camera to an at first confused-looking Ashley. “From Shohei, he wanted to gift you a Porsche.”

“Shut … up!” Ashley replied, as she gazed at the silver four-door vehicle parked at the curb.

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For Ashley, the six-figure present capped a hilarious social media campaign in which she aimed to get the 29-year-old Ohtani to sign with the Dodgers.

Over six seasons with his previous team, the Los Angeles Angels, Ohtani has worn No. 17, but it was the same number as Joe’s jersey — which he has donned over the last season with the Dodgers.

In her #Ohtake17 campaign, she pleaded for the two-way talent to come to the Dodgers.

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In a video on Dec. 8 — one day before it was announced that Ohtani had signed a record 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers — Ashley laid out an array of No. 17 jerseys on the floor, explaining that one with the words “Mama” on the back could be meant for Shohei’s mother, and that even a blinged-out bag could have the words “Kelly” removed in favor of “Ohtani.”

At one point in her sales pitch, she told her followers that she was going to try to be quiet because her 7-month-old “ShoKai” — real name Kai — was asleep.

“I changed his name for this s--- too,” she deadpanned.

In a video posted on Dec. 11 to celebrate Ohtani’s signing, Ashley cast aside her husband’s various No. 17 shirts on their front lawn, before Kelly himself appeared at the door.

On the back of the white t-shirt he was wearing, Ashley wrote “KELLY” and “No. 99.”

Joe himself has experience swapping his jersey for another garment.

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In 2021 while attending the White House ceremony celebrating the Dodgers' 2020 World Series Championship, Kelly sported an unconventional look.

The Dodgers star wore a custom embroidered black and white Mariachi jacket — a gift from Grover Castro, a trumpeter with Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar.

The band performed at Dodger Stadium earlier that year, and while warming up before the game, Kelly and Castro struck up a conversation on the field.

Turns out, Kelly wanted Castro's coat, and offered up his personal baseball jersey in exchange.

"New member alert," the band later joked on Instagram. "Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar in the White House! Check out what Joe Kelly wore to meet President Joe Biden at the White House! ¡Que Vivan Los Dodgers!"

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