{"id":932208,"date":"2026-10-14T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:02:08","slug":"shohei-ohtani-will-be-in-dodgers-game-3-lineup-against-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932208\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani will be in Dodgers’ Game 3 lineup against Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani<\/a> will be in the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>‘ lineup for Game 3 of the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday that Ohtani will bat anywhere from second to sixth with the two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers losing the first two games of the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very convicted that he is onto something mechanically (with his swing),\u201d Roberts said. \u201cHe was adamant that he can help us. He\u2019s well enough to help us win a baseball game, so that\u2019s all I needed to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani is hitting .150 (3 for 20) over six post-season games. He has seven strikeouts, three walks and one stolen base with no home runs, no RBIs and an OPS of .411.<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t homered since Aug. 18 at Colorado.<\/p>\n

Ohtani admitted before the NLDS against Atlanta that he\u2019s not 100% healthy from right biceps and left knee issues that bothered him the last the last few months of the regular season. He has appeared visibly uncomfortable at the plate while flailing at pitches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe symptoms have subdued a lot,\u201d Ohtani said Tuesday through a translator while making an unscheduled appearance in the off-day interview room. \u201cThe symptoms shouldn\u2019t be the reason why I can\u2019t hit, and even if the injuries happen by accident, I take full responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts spoke to Ohtani before the team worked out at Dodger Stadium, where Ohtani took on-field batting practice, something he rarely does during the regular season.<\/p>\n

Roberts said their conversation wasn\u2019t about benching the Japanese superstar, but rather offering him time off similar to Freddie Freeman during the post-season in 2024. Freeman had a sprained ankle and bone bruise, and took three days off spanning the NL Division Series and NLCS before earning World Series MVP honors.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the course of this long season, there\u2019s only really a short period of time when my mechanics is completely in sync,\u201d Ohtani said. \u201cSo it\u2019s just really kind of just going back and forth, finding the right parts of the swing and managing just the different parts of the swing. It\u2019s a constant, ongoing process that\u2019s headed in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani led the Dodgers to a four-game NLCS sweep of Milwaukee last year, when the Brewers hit a measly .118 against LA’s pitching.<\/p>\n

He was 5 for 14 (.357) with three home runs, four walks and five strikeouts as NLCS MVP \u2014 all three homers came in a memorable Game 4 clinch in which he also struck out 10 as a pitcher. He had a 1.643 OPS and 1.143 slugging percentage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remember vividly at this time last year that he maybe had the best baseball game ever played the day he pitched against us and hit a home run every time up, it seemed like,\u201d Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. \u201cYou can\u2019t forget that, his capabilities. But you still have to go at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani is known for hitting homers but the offensively starved Dodgers would take any kind of production from him at this point.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this big moment, we\u2019re listening to Shohei, and we\u2019re going to support the crap out of him and believe in him,” Roberts said, “and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snell looking to rebound for Dodgers in Game 3<\/p>\n

Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell starts for Los Angeles against Robert Gasser of the Brewers in a matchup of left-handers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers will be looking to get considerably more innings out of Snell than in his last start on Oct. 4.<\/p>\n

He lasted 3 2\/3 innings, giving up one run, three hits, walking five and striking out five, in a 3-2 loss in Game 2 of the NLDS against Atlanta. He didn’t speak to media afterward and has kept a low profile since then.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust a lot of time talking to myself, figuring out where I need to get to, where I\u2019m at,\u201d he said. \u201cWatching two games against Milwaukee, just kind of game planning, seeing what I can expose, what they\u2019re doing really well. Just trying to figure them out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brewers centre-fielder Garrett Mitchell grew up in Orange County as a Los Angeles Angels fan. His family had season tickets in left field. He went to high school with the son of Angels star Garret Anderson.<\/p>\n

\u201cGot to have some good conversations with him, take some blasts into the past and talk about memories,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cI was a shortstop when I was a kid, too. So I enjoyed watching David Eckstein and Adam Kennedy, and I also have a personal relationship with Adam Kennedy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell said the way the Angels played reminds him of how the Brewers approach games.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys who maybe aren\u2019t the greatest or the best on the field but know what they\u2019ve got to do and know their roles and grind and compete to the best of their abilities,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what it takes, it\u2019s a team effort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shohei Ohtani will be in the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ lineup for Game 3 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-932208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932208","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=932208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}