{"id":252889,"date":"2025-10-31T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252889\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:50:16","slug":"fans-roast-dave-roberts-over-game-7-comments-about-shohei-ohtani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252889\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans roast Dave Roberts over Game 7 comments about Shohei Ohtani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-lazy=\"\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/cmc-predictor\/v2\/cross-icon.png?w=40\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"close\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers need to win Game 6 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/team\/toronto-blue-jays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-is-sponsored=\"false\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> to keep their hopes alive of a second consecutive World Series title.<\/p>\n<p>Two-way superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/player\/shohei-ohtani-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-is-sponsored=\"false\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> has had two quiet games for the Dodgers following his historic Game 4, where he reached base nine times, including two home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers manager Dave Roberts expressed confidence in his star player on Thursday, saying the three-time MVP is open to taking on multiple roles for the team, including playing in the outfield.<\/p>\n<p> \u2022 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"march-madness-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759233727_223_march-madness-logo.png\" height=\"42\" width=\"99\" alt=\"march madness logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says everything is on the table for Shohei Ohtani in a potential Game 7 including being a closer, an opener, playing the OF, everything<\/p>\n<p>Fans reacted to Roberts&#8217; comment, reminding the Dodgers skipper that the team needs to win Game 6 with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound before thinking about Game 7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feel like almost everyone is expecting Game #7. It\u2019s a little disrespectful for Toronto and their ability to adjust to pitchers. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s automatic at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feel like almost everyone is expecting game #7. \u200bIt\u2019s a little disrespectful for Toronto and their ability to adjust to pitchers. \u200bI don\u2019t think it\u2019s automatic at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can\u2019t be worse than Teoscar out there in right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t be worse than Teoscar out there in right<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uhh\u2026 does Dave Roberts know he HAS to win Game 6 first? And does he know George Springer is playing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uhh\u2026 does Dave Roberts know he HAS to win game 6 first? And does he know George springer is playing?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why even talk about Game 7?! This series is over tomorrow unless Yamamoto pitches a complete game shutout. Unfortunately, he\u2019s due for a bad game after two stellar performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why even talk about Game 7?! This series is over tomorrow unless Yamamoto pitches a complete game shutout. Unfortunately, he\u2019s due for a bad game after two stellar performances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This guy can\u2019t count. You can jump to Game 7 without Game 6.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This guy can\u2019t count. You can jump to Game 7 without Game 6.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shohei Ohtani made his first World Series start, taking the mound against the Blue Jays in Game 4. However, the Japanese two-way star, who shut down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/team\/milwaukee-brewers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-is-sponsored=\"false\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> in NLCS Game 4, conceded four earned runs on six hits with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers manager Dave Roberts shares blunt message for a struggling Mookie Betts<\/p>\n<p>Although Shohei Ohtani has been quiet in his last two games, he hasn&#8217;t received much support from the Dodgers&#8217; star-studded lineup. One of the biggest issues has been former MVP Mookie Betts&#8217; slump this postseason. The All-Star slugger is batting .164 in his last 13 games in October.<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts had blunt advice for the 33-year-old Betts ahead of Game 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFocus on one game, and be good for one game,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cGo out there and compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Betts is 2-for-16 in the last three World Series games and will need to step up his performance with the Dodgers offense struggling against Toronto&#8217;s rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Why did you not like this content?<\/p>\n<p>\nCancel<br \/>\nSubmit\n<\/p>\n<p>Was this article helpful?<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"post-like-image post-rating-image\" data-lazy=\"\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/like-articles\/upvote-icon-grey.svg\" height=\"20\" width=\"20\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"like selected\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"post-dis-like-image post-rating-image\" data-lazy=\"\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/like-articles\/upvote-icon-grey.svg\" height=\"20\" width=\"20\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"avatar selected\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nThank You for feedback\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-p  \">Quick Links<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"background: none;\" data-lazy=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/skm\/assets\/article\/article-scroll-left.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"background: none;\" data-lazy=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/skm\/assets\/article\/article-scroll-right.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More from Sportskeeda<\/p>\n<p>\nEdited by Chaitanya Prakash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers need to win Game 6 against the Toronto Blue Jays to keep their hopes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-252889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}