Injuries may have prevented Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani from throwing from the mound recently, but they haven’t stopped him from coming up with a new pitch: co-writing a children’s book based on his baseball-fetching dog Decoy.

The 32-page book, which Ohtani co-authored with Michael Blank, is titled “Decoy Saves Opening Day” and will be released in February. Ohtani hopes to use the book’s sales to support animal rescue

The Dodgers' two-way star is trying his hand at a third discipline, writing a children's book based on his faithful dog Decoy.