{"id":884820,"date":"2026-09-05T22:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884820\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:46:48","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-hold-shohei-ohtani-out-of-lineup-again-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884820\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers hold Shohei Ohtani out of lineup again on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shohei Ohtani is out of the Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; lineup for a third straight game Saturday, but the team has not placed him on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Friday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani, who expressed soreness in his neck and along his right arm late in Wednesday&#8217;s 8-6 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, is still day-to-day, though he softened his stance about a potential stint on the IL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;Hopeful,&#8221; Roberts said when asked about Ohtani avoiding the IL, &#8220;but I wouldn&#8217;t say confident. Hopeful. We&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After Friday&#8217;s 5-3 series-opening win over the Washington Nationals, Roberts said he didn&#8217;t expect Ohtani in the lineup Saturday, though he was prepared to make a final determination after the superstar was to be reevaluated by the training staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If the discomfort lingers through the weekend, the Dodgers might have to temporarily shut him down, something they have avoided as he has battled small ailments throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles began play 84-57, in first place in the National League West and tied with the Atlanta Braves and Tampa Bay Rays with the second-best record in the majors, behind the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani is out of the Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; lineup for a third straight game Saturday, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,90907,462,104575,82],"class_list":["post-884820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-dodgers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-243","tag-mlb","tag-shohei-ohtani-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-727378","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884820","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=884820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}