{"id":731708,"date":"2026-06-12T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:50:11","slug":"dodgers-shohei-ohtani-leaves-game-early-due-to-left-knee-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731708\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers\u2019 Shohei Ohtani leaves game early due to left knee inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani left Thursday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Pittsburgh Pirates in the top of the seventh inning because of left knee inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani \u200bwas 2-for-2 with his \u200csecond home \u200crun in as many \u200bgames and had reached base four times before his departure. Santiago \u2060Espinal replaced him as the Dodgers\u2019 designated \u2060hitter.<\/p>\n<p>After the Dodgers\u2019 8-6 win over the Pirates, Los Angeles\u00a0\u200bmanager Dave Roberts said his level of concern regarding\u00a0Ohtani\u00a0is \u201cnot high.\u201d It was unclear when the ailment started, as\u00a0Ohtani\u00a0\u2060hadn\u2019t told Roberts of any issues with the knee until the sixth \u2060inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani left Thursday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Pittsburgh Pirates in the top of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,22165,487,462,509,482,82],"class_list":["post-731708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justin-wrobleski","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731708","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=731708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}