大谷翔平選手、第2子誕生を報告

野球やきゅうの大谷おおたに翔平しょうへい選手せんしゅが、2人目ふたりめの子こどもが生うまれたことを自分じぶんのSNSで知しらせました。大谷おおたに選手せんしゅは「新あたらしい家族かぞくが増ふえて、とてもうれしいです。母子ぼしともに元気げんきです」と書かきました。日本にほんでもアメリカでも、たくさんのファンや同おなじチームの選手せんしゅたちから「おめでとうございます」という言葉ことばが届とどいています。大谷おおたに選手せんしゅは、これからも野球やきゅうをがんばると言いっています。家族かぞくが増ふえて、これからの活躍かつやくがますます楽たのしみですね。

Baseball player Ohtani Shohei announced on his social media that his second child was born. Ohtani wrote, 'Our family has grown and I am very happy. Both mother and baby are doing well.' Congratulatory messages have poured in from many fans and teammates in both Japan and America. Ohtani has said he will continue to give his all in baseball. With a growing family, we are looking forward more than ever to what he will do next.

Vたことを知らせました= announced that ~ happenedNともにN= both N and N (are ~)Vをがんばると言っています= is saying that (they) will do their best at ~ますます〜楽しみですね= looking forward to ~ even more (invites shared feeling)

Learning Notes

Grammar Patterns

Pattern	Meaning
Vたことを知らせました	announced that ~ happened
NともにN	both N and N (are ~)
Vをがんばると言っています	is saying that (they) will do their best at ~
ますます〜楽しみですね	looking forward to ~ even more (invites shared feeling)

Vocabulary

Word	Reading	Level	Meaning
野球	やきゅう	N5	baseball
家族	かぞく	N5	family
選手	せんしゅ	N4	player; athlete
活躍	かつやく	N3	active performance; great achievement
母子	ぼし	N2	mother and child

Language Insights

•「母子ともに元気です」is a near-fixed phrase used universally in Japanese birth announcements, meaning 'both mother and baby are well.' Learners will encounter it constantly in this context.
•Ohtani Shohei plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers and is famous as a 'two-way' star (投手 pitcher and 打者 hitter) — the first player to excel at both in modern MLB.
•SNS (エス・エヌ・エス) is the standard Japanese term for social media, borrowed from the English acronym. The phrase 「ソーシャルメディア」is rarely used in everyday Japanese.
•The sentence-final ですね softly invites the reader to share the speaker's feeling — here, excited anticipation. It makes the statement warmer and more communal than a plain declarative.