{"id":793765,"date":"2026-07-10T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:48:09","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-superstar-shohei-ohtani-will-miss-all-star-game-because-of-left-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793765\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani will miss All-Star Game because of left knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shohei-ohtani\/727378\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shohei-ohtani\/727378\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> will miss next week\u2019s All-Star Game in Philadelphia because of continued irritation in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Dodgers added that Ohtani would not make his scheduled start on the mound against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> on Friday night, but would continue his role as the team\u2019s designated hitter throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team says that after the series against the D-backs ends on Sunday, Ohtani will have some \u201cinterventions\u201d done on his knee to get his ready for the second half of the season, which will cause him to miss the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The four-time Most Valuable Player has once again been one of the best players in the big leagues this season and stands alone as the game\u2019s premier two-way player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ohtani is batting .290 with 20 homers and 56 RBIs and is 8-2 on the mound with a 1.79 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 85 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani will miss next week\u2019s All-Star Game in Philadelphia because of continued irritation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-793765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793765","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=793765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}