Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani took swings off a tee Tuesday as he works toward returning from the injured list before the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cShohei hit off the tee and felt good today,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said before Los Angeles defeated the host Cincinnati Reds 4-0. \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s in store for him tomorrow, but I know that there\u2019s going to be a consistent build-up. Don\u2019t know when the time of return to play is, but today was positive, and hopefully we can just keep building towards that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberts said he expected Ohtani to return and play in some regular-season games before shifting to the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether it happens or not is to be determined, but I do expect him to be back to play in some regular-season games,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how many.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ohtani, 32, was placed on the injured list to rest his left knee and right biceps. Soreness in those areas, along with a neck issue, caused him to miss four straight games earlier this month, but the Dodgers initially hoped to avoid an IL stint.<\/p>\n
Because Ohtani is a two-way player, he must be on the IL for a minimum of 15 days. Sept. 23 is the soonest he can be activated. The Dodgers will have five games to go in the regular season at that point \u2014\u00a0two against the San Diego Padres at home and a three-game road series at the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n
Overall this year, the six-time All-Star is hitting .277 with a .380 on-base percentage, a .522 slugging percentage, 30 homers and 80 RBIs in 130 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani took swings off a tee Tuesday as he works toward returning from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,10214,1187,591,5149,85],"class_list":["post-894106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dave-roberts","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}