{"id":254871,"date":"2025-11-01T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254871\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:05:08","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-manager-dave-roberts-says-shohei-ohtani-a-possibility-to-start-game-7-of-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254871\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says Shohei Ohtani a possibility to start Game 7 of World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani<\/a> might start Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday. Tyler Glasnow<\/a> might pitch on back-to-back days. For Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> manager Dave Roberts, the only certainty is that Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> won\u2019t pitch. Besides that?<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone will be available,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers survived a wild ninth inning to hold off the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> 3-1 in Game 6, forcing the winner-take-all showdown Saturday night. Three-time Cy Young Award winner and former Dodger Max Scherzer<\/a> is expected to start for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers pitching plans are less certain, but they do include two-way Ohtani in some fashion. Roberts said Thursday that he\u2019d consider using Ohtani as an opener or even as an outfielder in Game 7, and stuck with that after Game 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think right now, there\u2019s no wrong answer,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cHe\u2019s certainly going to be a part of the pitching plan. With Shohei it could be two innings, but it could be four innings. So I\u2019m not sure where we\u2019re going to slot him. We\u2019re going to have to talk to him first on where he feels most comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Ohtani entered as a reliever after starting the game as a designated hitter, he would need to play a position after pitching to remain in the game. The Dodgers would lose their DH. <\/p>\n

Per MLB rules created to facilitate Ohtani\u2019s two-way status, Ohtani can remain in the game as a DH if he begins the game as the starting pitcher. <\/p>\n

Ohtani threw 93 pitches in Wednesday\u2019s 6-2 loss in Game 4, allowing four runs and six hits in six innings.<\/p>\n

Ohtani has never pitched in relief during his Major League Baseball career. He made a handful of relief appearances in Japan for the Pacific League\u2019s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, mostly as a rookie in 2013. He closed out Japan\u2019s victory in the 2023 World Baseball Classic final against the United States, striking out then-Los Angeles Angels<\/a> teammate Mike Trout<\/a> for the final out.<\/p>\n

Ohtani made seven outfield appearances with the Angels in 2021, the year before a rule was changed allowing starting pitchers to stay in games at DH after being removed from mound appearances.<\/p>\n

Roberts surprised many by using Glasnow out of the bullpen to close out Game 6. Glasnow, Saturday\u2019s presumed starter, began warming in the ninth inning and relieved Roki Sasaki<\/a> with runners on second and third and no outs. He got three outs on three pitches, including a popup by Ernie Clement<\/a> and a line drive from Andres Gimenez<\/a> that turned into a game-ending double play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just felt right there, Roki wasn\u2019t as sharp,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cGlas is a guy who has swing-and-miss stuff and I just wanted to bet on him. He\u2019s been champing at the bit to make an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glasnow allowed four runs, two earned, and five hits in 4 2\/3 innings in Game 3, which the Dodgers won 6-5 in 18 innings.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n

Ian Harrison, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Shohei Ohtani might start Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday. Tyler Glasnow might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,77,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-254871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254871","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=254871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}